BIZARRE: 2 - What They Never Told You

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.

PC Gamer · Nov 18, 2025

OG Fallout artist Leonard Boyarsky says The Outer Worlds 2 almost had its own 'old school Obsidian' evil ending, but it took too much effort for too little payoff: 'I love making these types of games, but it is very stressful'

Two big factions, plus endings for siding with one, both, or neither was enough.

PC Gamer · Nov 8, 2025

"This is going to be horrible": BioWare's classic D&D RPG Baldur's Gate 2 looked like a "hacked-up monstrosity that was still full of bugs" as the devs crunched to get it finished in time for launch

"The crunch at the time was brutal"

GamesRadar · Oct 9, 2025

Fallout's creator went so scorched earth when he was ordered to delete the RPG's source code that he even broke his "personal toy projects" forever because he deleted the Fallout libraries they referenced

"I went so far to destroy it that I destroyed early prototypes and libraries"

GamesRadar · May 28, 2025

Sorry, 'Fallout' Fans: Remaster Is Unlikely to Happen, According to Creator—Here's Why

Fallout creator, Tim Cain, has revealed his reason why a remaster of the original game is unlikely.

Player One · May 26, 2025

Legendary programmer credited with saving "lost" Fallout source code confirms it was never lost in the first place: "If I do get permission from Bethesda to release the source code, I will do so"

"There's at least five people that have it"

GamesRadar · May 12, 2025

Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'

Rebecca Heineman, one of Interplay's founders, kept the receipts.

PC Gamer · May 4, 2025

Fallout creator laments the loss of the game's earliest development materials: 'I had that in digital form and was ordered to destroy it'

"The amount of stuff that's been lost about Fallout and its early development saddens me," Tim Cain says.

PC Gamer · Apr 25, 2025

Fallout creator Tim Cain says he was "ordered to destroy" his personal archive of the RPG's development: "Individuals and organizations actively work against preservation"

"There's a lot of organizations out there that demand to be the archive keeper, and then they do a terrible job at it"

GamesRadar · Apr 24, 2025

Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone

Attention is the creativity-killer.

PC Gamer · Apr 13, 2025