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Fallout's co-creator picks 5 RPGs everyone should learn from, including Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Skyrim

Tim Cain picks out different reasons every game developer should learn from these five RPGs

GamesRadar

Fallout creator says the team was unsure about adding one gameplay system that's now a key strategy in all your favorite RPGs

You've got to reverse-pick a pocket or two, but Interplay nearly didn't

GamesRadar

Fallout's co-creator may be retired—but he's still advising on The Outer Worlds 2, and how it can avoid the 'huge chasms' of RPG design

Tim Cain's advice will still form a part of Obsidian's sequel, even post-retirement.

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The Outer Worlds 2 will solve a mysterious problem Fallout’s creator has struggled with for nearly 30 years

Tim Cain is very impressed by Obsidian's new game

GamesRadar

The original Fallout's pacifist playthrough was an 'accidental' inclusion, but its designers loved the idea so much they kept it in

The anecdote comes courtesy of veteran developer Tim Cain's YouTube channel.

PC Gamer

Fallout 4 dev explains what went into crafting the post-apocalyptic RPG's most iconic shot

"Nice to see it popping up still years later"

GamesRadar

If I could go back in time and save one canceled game, it'd be the 2005 Fallout spiritual successor prototyped by the series' original creators

My heart yearns for "Epic," the prototype Troika post-apocalyptic demo.

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The lead dev of inXile's steampunk RPG says it's a 'love child' of two of the best RPGs ever made⁠—and he should know, he helped make them

Arcanum AND Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines? You have my attention.

PC Gamer

Original Fallout co-creator finally explains what made him leave the sequel: 'I made an IP from scratch that nobody believed in except the team, and my reward for that was more crunch'

In his latest vlog, Fallout co-creator Tim Cain sheds some light on his departure from Interplay.

PC Gamer

Fallout was nearly called 'Warriors of the Apocalypse', 'Radstorm', 'Moribund World' and so many other terrible names

"It was a bad name. I said we really need to come up with something better."

PC Gamer

Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals how the legendary RPG got its name

Tim Cain, the creator of Fallout, has detailed how Interplay Entertainment chose a name for the RPG.

Windows Central

A co-creator of the original Fallout says he modified his criminally underrated D&D videogame to work with a Department of Defense AI project in 2005

Delivering some D&D to the DoD.

PC Gamer

Tim Cain reveals proposed sequels to Vampire – Bloodlines: 'We were planning a trilogy, which I forgot'

Bloodlines' original developers had plans to continue its story.

PC Gamer

Fallout creator Tim Cain on the real reason why vaults exist

It turns out the Fallout vaults have a different purpose in the classic RPGs than we thought, creator Tim Cain says

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Fallout's original co-creator has casually dropped 'the true purpose of vaults' on YouTube

All those nefarious experiments had a purpose: getting the hell out of here.

PC Gamer

A Fallout co-creator has been revealing heater after heater of never-before-seen RPG history on YouTube, including an early Lord of the Rings RPG demo

Still consulting on games from "semi-retirement," Tim Cain's been doling out RPG deep lore under the radar.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Obsidian says a Fallout New Vegas remaster would be ‘awesome’

Original franchise creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are very open to revisting New Vegas.

Chicago Sun-Times

Student mental health emerges as key issue as UIC faculty strike date looms

Strike threats aren’t uncommon at Illinois universities. What’s unusual is the focus on student mental health and how it impacts faculty workloads.

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The University of California and workers reached a tentative deal to end strike

The monthlong strike by graduate student teaching assistants and other academic workers disrupted classes at all 10 campuses. The agreement needs to be ratified before the strike officially ends.

The Independent UK

UC's academic workers strike brings stress to undergraduates

A month into the nation’s largest strike involving higher education, the work stoppage by University of California academic workers at 10 campuses is causing stress for many undergraduate students

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