What’s that guy doing in the power armor? He died, like, five minutes into the game while trying to protect my baby.

I heard about this glitch, and that’s why in my playthrough MacCready is still wasting away in the Third Rail. I love using VATS and automatic head shots would take all the fun out of it.

Here’s the original photo he was working from, for reference.

Yeah, in previous Fallouts I always wound up super-wealthy from selling looted weapons, armor, and junk. Now all that stuff gets scrapped in my workshop and I hardly sell anything, so I’m only just now getting to the point where I am financially comfortable. (Not comfortable enough to buy multiple legendary items, I…

I was writing a chapter the other day that was the backstory of a main character. It’s too important to leave out, for structural reasons, but I found myself bored while writing it. I realized that it was because his backstory was just pretty much boring—an exciting beginning, a lackluster middle, and an…

I have a question for someone who has watched these videos:

I found the Grognak Costume pretty early on, which gives you a +2 Strength bonus, so I’ve been wearing that all the time since my character is an Unarmed specialist with only 4 Strength. (I am definitely not min-maxing here.) It’s got the highest ballistic and energy defense of any armor I’ve found so far that you can…

If only they made that ringing sound that Nirnroot makes in Skyrim! I always loved that sound. So soothing.

Congratulations for making the move, and thanks for founding io9! Has it really been only eight years?!

You didn’t blow it up enough!

Judging by the Audi police cars, this bit is part of the fight against the Polizei in Berlin.

It’s from Totall Recall! The original version, with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Go check it out again!

Well, there are zero now that I’ve lobbed three mini-nukes into it to kill Swan.

I’ve put hundreds of hours into Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and am maybe 60 hours into Fallout 4, and I still wind up accidentally mis-navigating in the Pip Boy. I love the retro feel of it and the curved screen and the bitmapped text and all that, but it’s too fiddly as to how to get to the screen you want to get to,…

I’m loving Fallout 4 even though so much of it is not well explained. I’ve had to go online to find out how to repair my Power Armor and how to assign settlers to tasks, and I didn’t realize until this article that you can make your companions put on better armor, since in previous games they would automatically equip…

Yeah, this is clearly 4chan bullshit, snot-nosed kids trying to pit LGBTQ people against one another. It’s sad it’s getting any traction.

I also knew this would be about Swan! When I passed through Boston Commons, it was while on my way to rescue Nick Valentine after having just cleared out the Combat Zone. Cait was following me said something along the lines of “This is a bad idea, no one ever goes into Boston Commons.” Two minutes later Swan had…

Yes, I’ve been wondering about that too! Especially since the new Perks system makes so many perks unavailable to characters with average SPECIAL stats. In Fallout 3 or NV, the highest stat a perk ever demanded was 7.

I looked at this earlier and got spoiled as to a cool new game mechanic, so I’m not going to go poking about any further. But there is one thing I am curious about: Can you still raise a SPECIAL stat in place of taking a perk, as you could in Fallout 3 and NV (as a perk called “Intense Training”)? I’m just a li’l…

Twinblast’s robotic knuckles ensure he will shred his pockets whenever he tries to pull out his house keys. Good luck earning victory with ripped pockets, pal