Thursday, August 9, 2018

The rise and fall of Project V13, the online Fallout game that never was

The post-apocalypse can be a lonely wasteland or a place for survivors to come together and rebuild. The Fallout role-playing game series has traditionally cast players as exceptional wanderers. But since its earliest years, some fans have yearned for a massively multiplayer version of the game, where players could form communities and team up against monsters or rival groups.

That’s exactly what developer Bethesda Softworks is trying to deliver late this year when it releases the multiplayer survival game Fallout 76. But Fallout 76 isn’t the first time a studio has tried to make an online Fallout. In 2007, the series’s original creators started building a massively multiplayer game that would have taken Fallout in a new direction, only...

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