Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

BIZARRE: 2 - You Need To See This

Fallout's origin can be traced back to a pizza party Tim Cain threw

But were there anchovies?

PC Gamer

Fallout was a 'B-tier product' that lost both the licenses it was banking on and had its lead dev joking, 'In a week, we’re going to be asking whether people want fries with their meal,' but now he thinks those trials 'turned out to be positives'

The little post-apocalyptic roleplaying game that could.

PC Gamer

Fallout co-creator wasn't allowed to share ideas with the rest of the team, so he showed the engine that would eventually power the RPG at a secret pizza party

Disguised by pepperoni

GamesRadar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Fallout co-creator "would have gone in a different direction" than Bethesda did with the RPG series, but "sales say people love what they did"

The OG Fallout creators still enjoy Bethesda's RPGs, though

GamesRadar

Fallout was a "B-tier side project" compared to the D&D "money teams" at Interplay, says series co-creator Tim Cain: "We're off in the corner"

Not so B-tier anymore!

GamesRadar

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says games "could benefit" from being more like toys, which Minecraft, Skyrim, and all "the best games" are: "Freeform, goal-free playing"

From open worlds to endless gameplay, he thinks a lot of us yearn for toy-like features

GamesRadar

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'remote work isn't all sunshine and lollipops' and explains why he's happy to be back in the Obsidian office after 5 years of semi-retirement

"Uncle Tim likes a bagel once a week."

PC Gamer

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Tim Cain worked 12 hour days and 7-day weeks making Fallout not because of crunch, but because "we loved what we were doing"

"I'm glad things have changed. That was unsustainable, but it was also absolutely amazing"

GamesRadar

2026's Gaming Hall of Fame: The 10 Characters Who Ruled the Year

From long-time icons to breakout stars, these were the 10 most popular video game characters of the year, ranked by fan buzz.

International Business Times UK

Fallout lead Tim Cain worked 70+ hours a week for 2 years to make the classic RPG: 'I'm glad things have changed, that was unsustainable⁠—but it was also absolutely amazing'

"I often drove to work in the dark and drove home in the dark."

PC Gamer

Fallout co-creator is glad his RPGs are remembered as "flawed masterpieces" rather than "very buggy games," but warns devs that adding more features will always make other parts of their games worse

"We chose lots of features over bug fixing"

GamesRadar

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain boils RPGs down into 9 different types of quests, but warns "more of one thing means less of another"

Developers only have a finite amount of time to code, so more quests can often mean more bugs.

PC Gamer

Original Fallout lead Tim Cain reckons vitriol around games has always been around, but it's 'more hostile' these days: 'I see lot of people arguing past each other, even if that means denying that the other group even exists'

"People have always had different tastes and they wanted different things."

PC Gamer

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says "there's so much arguing" about games to the point some fans and devs are leaving altogether, but his wisdom is "buy the games you want to see more of," especially indies: "It's the only way forward through this I can see"

"A lot of arguing I see online is gamers arguing past each other"

GamesRadar

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

GamesRadar

OG Fallout creators wanted the IP when it was up for sale, but Bethesda's $6 million bid was a blowout: "It wouldn't have mattered if they heard our offer or not, because they would have laughed"

"We never even got a chance to make an offer"

GamesRadar

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says "realism" complaints are often caused by game worlds breaking their own rules, something his early RPG Arcanum was meticulous about: "Magic and tech don't coexist"

"Realism gets conflated with consistency. A lot"

GamesRadar

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain explains why he's not making more new IPs, and it's partly because he's done "making other people really wealthy with my own creations"

"People who just work on them in a team make more money than I got to even create the IP"

PC Gamer

Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'

Emphasis on "masterpieces."

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

'I'm over making other people really wealthy with my own creations': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain isn't interested in making a new IP or a sequel to one of his classic RPGs and, at this point, he's 'exasperated with the question'

"I'm still making toys and I love them, and they make me happy."

GamesRadar

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain explains why modern games are eating all your storage space, says "the biggest contributor" is art

More than audio, video and optimization

GamesRadar

"Fallout was always seen as a B project": 28 years since the post-apocalyptic RPG launched, its original creators reflect on a long legacy – starting with that very first bomb

On the Radar | Fallout has seen many changes, off-shoots, and failed projects in its time – who knew the end of the world could be so full of life?

PC Gamer

Fallout: New Vegas lead writer inconveniently points out that Fallout season 2 is all about New Vegas but 'there's no credit for that, there's no residuals for that'

"In some ways, I think doing narrative in video games is a little akin to doing comic book work."

Windows Central

Fallout co‑creator leaves retirement to rejoin Xbox's Obsidian Entertainment, fueling speculation about future games — "Don't bother guessing, you're not gonna guess right"

Game designer Tim Cain has rejoined Obsidian Entertainment, leaving retirement to work on a new project.

GamesRadar

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain rejoins Obsidian, tells everyone to not bother guessing what game he's working on: "You're not gonna guess right"

An RPG legend goes back to a legendary RPG studio

PC Gamer

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is out of 'semi-retirement' and back at Obsidian

Cain? On games?

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Obsidian Entertainment

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.