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Exploring the 'twisted road' of Irrational's doomed XCOM game—from fighting aliens 'the size of entire city blocks' to a multiplayer mode where you could be the aliens

Inside the many promising, abortive concepts the BioShock developer came up with.

PC Gamer · Oct 24, 2024

The developers of the final 2D Fallout game had no idea their publisher was gasping for air: 'We weren't told anything about Interplay's financial problems'

Fallout Tactics was made at a make-or-break moment for Interplay, a publisher with its fair share of make-or-break moments.

PC Gamer · Oct 12, 2024

'God it was gutting' to see the Fallout fanbase response, says Fallout Tactics lead: 'fervent and passionate and often horribly toxic'

"We should have just never looked."

PC Gamer · Oct 7, 2024

Fallout Tactics' lead designer tips his hat to Bethesda for succeeding where they failed: 'It can be done. You just need to be a multinational with more than 18 months'

"Our approach was just terrible."

PC Gamer · Sep 25, 2024

What it feels like to have your Fallout game declared non-canon by Todd Howard: 'It sucked'

The actual third game in the series didn't get much love from Bethesda.

PC Gamer · Sep 25, 2024