Fallout: Coming soon to a TV near you?

Could the Capital Wasteland soon be the setting of a new television series? Fallout publisher Bethesda has filed a trademark for a post-apocalyptic TV show.

Developers team up with scientists to help make ‘smarter’ games (interview)

We've heard of developers hiring economists and military consultants for their games before, so why not scientists, too?

Wasteland 2: The apocalypse doesn’t look so bad (first screenshot)

Brian Fargo's Wasteland franchise moves forward with the release of an early screenshot from the upcoming Wasteland 2.

Retro revival: PC games raise $6.7M and counting in Kickstarter campaigns

Kickstarter’s gone vogue. With a single, bold move by Double Fine’s Tim Schafer in early February, the crowdfunding web site propelled itself into the heart of the gaming community. Now, with the signing of the JOBS Act adding additional legitimacy, …

Elder Scrolls MMO to be revealed in May

“Inside sources” have allegedly confirmed with tech blog Tom’s Guide that Bethesda Softworks is preparing an Elder Scrolls Online massively multiplayer game and is set to reveal it in May of this year.

The MMO will take place 1,000 years …

The DeanBeat: Crowd-funding gives hope to mid-size game developers

Double Fine Productions turned video game funding practices upside down last week when it raised more than $1.75 million through the crowd-funding site Kickstarter in record time. That money will go toward the development of a new adventure game that …

Interplay loses rights to Fallout intellectual property in lawsuit settlement

ZeniMax Media, the parent company of video game developer and publisher Bethesda Softworks, has reached a settlement in the lawsuit against Interplay Entertainment over the Fallout brand.

The lawsuit sought to cancel the license granted to Interplay to develop a …