Is a new remaster of an all-time classic Fallout game just a few weeks away? Probably not, but that's not stopping some from clinging to a dream.
I'm all for baseless speculation, hopium, and copium (Bloodborne 2 is real), but there's actually at least some reason to believe a big announcement for Fallout is coming within the next few weeks. And it's all thanks to season two of the Fallout show on Prime Video.
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I'm actually a few episodes behind on this season, so I've been avoiding discussing it, but gamers online have been quick to point out that the website for the show currently has a countdown running, and it's a mystery what lies at its end.
The countdown, shown above in the top right of the image, ends right about when the season two finale arrives on Feb. 4. But we know that it's coming, as all episodes for the season along with their titles and air dates have been announced. Why would it need a countdown? This must mean that something else is coming, surely, and people like me and some others are starting to convince ourselves it's a long-awaited and rumored Fallout 3 remaster.
And you know what? I'm in. Screw it. It's early January, the game releases are slow to start out the year (as always), and I am once again choosing the hype. I blame Bethesda, too, because the company literally just shadow-dropped a long-awaited remaster last year with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, so why not? Let's do it.
Fallout season two is currently taking place in New Vegas, so it's also entirely possible that that game could be the one getting the treatment. Personally, I'm partial to Fallout 3 as it was my first title in the series and my favorite thus far. But imagine if it's somehow both 3 and New Vegas at the same time? Okay, let's not get ahead of ourselves, but it is fun to dream.
Based back in reality now for a second, I realize this is probably not what's going to happen. At least not yet. I don't know what the countdown will end with, but I want to get absolutely merked by Super Mutants with the Washington Monument in view again, so I'm huffing the hopium, and I hope you all join me.
PlayStation Plus Extra is always filled with exciting games for PS4 and PS5 gamers to play. Some of these games included with the subscription are ongoing online experiences that regularly receive free updates, bringing brand-new content to the game. That includes the popular fantasy MMORPG, The Elder Scrolls Online.
PS Plus game The Elder Scrolls Online will get free content starting with Season 0
The Elder Scrolls Online is introducing Seasons to the MMORPG. Season 0 will kick things off, which will officially launch on April 2 and runs until July 8. As indicated by that window, each season will last three months long, and feature new rewards, adventures, and ways to play based on a single theme. ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda Softworks state that a Season can include new gameplay content, base-game changes and improvements, Tamriel Tome, and rotation of Gold Coast Bazaar items.
The Elder Scrolls Online’s Season Zero is called Dawn and Dusk. Here is everything included in the new seasonal update:
The Night Market Event Zone
The first wave of player experience improvements
The first wave of class and combat refresh improvements
The introduction of Tamriel Tomes with the Tome of Dawn and Dusk
The introduction of the Gold Coast Bazaar
Additionally, The Elder Scrolls Online’s Update 49 will release a few weeks before Season 0, on March 9. This will include a slew of player experience improvements. Here are the first wave of quality-of-life changes coming with Update 49:
The ability to respec Skills and Attributes directly from the UI at no cost
An increase to the speed at which you train your Riding skills
An increase to furnishing limits on half of the game’s player houses
A return to the 30-day listing window for Guild traders
16 mounts of all shapes and sizes moved from the Crown Store to gold vendors
One of these is a brand-new gold purchasable mount: the Ebon Dwarven Horse.
Increases to rarer Antiquities expiration times
A change to make Outfit Slots account-wide
And more!
For non-PS Plus subscribers, The Elder Scrolls Online is available on the PlayStation Store now for $19.99.
Zenimax Online Studios and Bethesda Softworks took to a livestream today to discuss changes coming to TheElder Scrolls Online, including a new seasonal model.
After 12 years of The Elder Scrolls Online, it appears the development team has moved on from the existing chapter model and into how the current seasonal model will work in The Elder Scrolls Online after it was announced by former Zenimax Director Matt Firor at the end of 2024. In case fans have missed it, the entire livestream can be seen on YouTube.
In today’s livestream, ESO Game Director Nick Giacomini and Executive Producer Susan Kath detailed all of the big changes coming to the base game of ESO:Tamriel Unlimited, starting with the announcement that the development team will be more transparent with fans on how they will manage the game’s systems. They will use how they approach the Guild Summit to communicate with fans. Both Giacomini and Kath stressed that content and storylines will remain as usual, but delivery of that content will be treated differently.
Further on that note, all future (and previous) The Elder Scrolls Online expansions (formerly called Chapters) will be unleashed onto players for free in a Seasonal format. These seasons will be launched concurrently on Console and PC at the same time moving forward, eliminating that two week gap where PC players received content early. Seasonal content will function like basic game updates, and players will be able to dive in as it’s released.
The Elder Scrolls Online: All New Improvements Announced!
Tamriel Tomes – This will serve as The Elder Scrolls Online‘s ‘battle pass.’ Like most other ongoing titles, it will serve a free and paid version. The free Tamriel Tome will give cosmetics, armor and weapon styles, 8000 seals of endeavour (by playing, not paying), earnable crown crates, and more. These rewards will replace Daily Login Rewards, making sure players get rewarded for when they’re in the game and playing, instead of having to log in every single day. Challenges have embraced this flexibility, moving to weekly and seasonal models, and removing daily challenges. Three tiers of Tamriel Tomes are available: Free, Premium and Premium+. Fans can complete Tamriel Tomes whenever they feel like and have the time. Expiration dates are a thing of the past.
Gold Coast Bazaar – A storefront dedicated to players for more rewards and a way players can acquire older items. This is for the players who miss limited-time Twitch drops or limited-time events where it’s an impossibility for some to tune in. The Gold Coast Bazaar will have these drops. New cosmetics and rewards will be added to the Bazaar regularly, and items will rotate in and out, similar (but not exactly) to Fortnite’s Item Shop, as the shop will rotate with the season. Players will use a new currency called Trade Bars to access shop items. This new currency can be earned through Tamriel Tomes. In light of these new developments, the existing Event Ticket model will be scrapped. Trade Bars can be earned through gameplay, with those who pay for ESO Plus getting a small distribution for supporting the game. This currency will have no limit.
Experimental Content Starting With Night Market! – A new PvE zone designed for experienced players, but doubles as a good place where newcomers can go to find experienced groups. This will be difficult content. Three factions will be included in Night Market, and a new, unique house reward will be released with the Night Market. This new earnable house has an included bank for ease of use as well. The Night Market opens in April 2026 as a limited feature, and it will potentially recur if fans like it.
Free Existing and Future Expansions – All content in The Elder Scrolls Online will be made free, including existing expansions. The new roadmap bestowed by Zenimax Studios reveals that this will start with Orsinium, Thieves’ Guild, The Dark Brotherhood, and Imperial City Chapters and locations hitting the base game when Season 0 begins in Spring 2026.
Class and Systems Refresh – Before and after each seasonal launch, The Elder Scrolls Online will refresh existing systems and classes to restore class identity after Subclassing was implemented. The development team hears the player feedback, particularly on how class identity was lost, so visual and skill updates will be included with each season to help restore these class identities.
Quality of Life – The Elder Scrolls Online team is listening to the community, and with the start of Season 0 a wealth of quality of life updates will be added to the game. This starts with account-wide outfit slots. That’s not all, a female-based werewolf model will be added (as was heavily requested by the community), players will be able to respec their skill trees and attributes free of charge, 16 ridable mounts will be added to the gold (not paid crowns) mount store, and mount training will be reduced in time. Additionally, a direct-to-player werewolf and vampire questline will be added (with respective NPCs) to allow players to roleplay as their favourite abomination.
Quality of Life, Cont. – Antiquities timing will be extended, and players will be able to add 100+ new furnishings to their homes (including the new bank-equipped one). These changes are designed to respect the player’s time and improve the ESO experience to feel easier. ESO Plus members will get a monthly grant of Tome Points (earned through completing Tamriel Tome tasks), plus players will be able to upgrade their Tamriel Tomes into the higher tier with the membership.
The Elder Scrolls Online development team will share early development ideas with the community moving forward, and provide more transparency toward the community and incorporate more player feedback into roadmaps and content moving forward. The Night Market is reminiscent of that. This is new experimental content that can stay in-game if players like the content, or it can be removed entirely if players don’t.
The roadmap provided by The Elder Scrolls Online team is subject to change based on player feedback, and new content can come to older in-game systems, like a new questline coming to the Thieves’ Guild content in season one. New occurrences will also land in Tamriel Unlimited, like the fan-favourite Daedric Prince Sheogorath, having a specific questline as well.
The team is revamping PvP in The Elder Scrolls Online, starting with rampant online complaints of spawn camping during PvP Battle Grounds battles, they will work on fixing it to be fair for everyone. Lastly, new content will be provided seasonally, with a new Trial landing in season one called the Crimson Veldt, and new solo dungeons landing in season two. Whether fans play alone or together, there are additions for the entire community.
That wraps all of the information given to players from The Elder Scrolls Online Reveal 2026. Those looking for more information can find everything mentioned on the official ESOwebsite.
Water is wet, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is going to perform strongly at The Game Awards, and oh, yeah, The Elder Scrolls 6 will likely be nowhere in sight. The source for each of these statements is common sense, common sense, and common sense, respectively. Scientists can back up the first; The Golden Joystick Awards can presage the second. And Jason Schreier, who is both the best-known gaming journalist in the industry and a fellow Xenogears enjoyer, can probably be added to the third.
The Witcher 4 – going head to head with Elder Scrolls 6? (CD Projekt)
The Monday letters page wishes Astro’s Playroom had been a Switch 2 launch title, as one reader worries that a Tomb Raidr reboot is doomed to failure.
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Epic showdown There’s always lots of talk about The Elder Scrolls 6, which I understand because everyone loves Skyrim and Bethesda are such a mess it’s just interesting following them. But I’m surprised there’s not been any discussion of The Witcher 4 lately.
We at least know a little bit about that, in that Ciri is the main character, but it seems likely that both are going to come out at almost exactly the same time. CD Projekt said no earlier than 2027 for The Witcher 4, which probably means at least 2028, and that’s exactly when The Elder Scrolls 6 is due.
Based on their recent track record I have to say I’m much more interested in The Witcher 4, and much more confident that it will be good. But both games have sold almost the same, at around 60 million (Bethesda seem to have Sony-itis when making up sales figures but let’s just assume they’re both more or less the same).
So, what would you bet on being more successful and more loved? Which are not the same thing. Personally, I think The Witcher 4 has got to be the early favourite. Johnson
Prior reading As someone that’s never played the series, I’m very curious to see if there is going to be a Half-Life 3 and if it will be on consoles. Steam Machine can’t have exclusives, but they can keep games PC-only and it seems likely they’ll do that here, which would be a shame I think.
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As far as I understand nobody knows for sure that Half-Life 3 is coming, so could the game actually be a remake? I know there’s been some fan ones, on PC, but I would like to see a big remake of the first two for all formats, so I can get a good look at it and have a chance with the backstory and the lore and everything.
It’s weird to me that one of the most talked about games ever doesn’t have a decent console version and most casual gamers have never heard of it. Bootles
Gradual influence The Reader’s Feature about Microsoft’s reverse Midas touch made me laugh, because I’ve been thinking something similar myself recently. The funny thing is I don’t there’s been enough time for Microsoft to have had any effect on Call Of Duty yet, given how long games take to make.
Being on Game Pass is obviously a difference, but that isn’t what made the game a big pile of you know what. So Microsoft couldn’t really have changed anything for Black Ops 7, I don’t think.
It’s actually more likely that Activision knew, or had a good idea, this was going to be a disaster when Microsoft bought them and just carried on anyway. They would’ve had their money by that point, so what do they care? Bruno
The one and only So I had a look at my friends list, as was trying Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 on Game Pass, terrible game on every level and about 80 were online. I was the only one playing Black Ops 7 and on top of that no one was playing EA Sports FC… a massive change from few years ago when everyone would of been playing those games
Those were games my son would get every year with his mates, now they won’t even try them as they’re rubbish. So the golden goose is well and truly cooked for both, too many similar reincarnations every year with nothing new. I also note my son’s generation are actually falling out of love with gaming, which is worrying for the future.
Microsoft buying Activision for $70+ billion looking like the worst buy in history. They saw Call Of Duty as easy money every year but now that’s backfired big time… worrying times. Thanks for everything over the last year, seasons greeting and all the best. TWO MACKS
Becoming a relic Very much agree with the weekend feature about Tomb Raider. I think the biggest problem, at this point, is it’s just too late. The reboot trilogy wasn’t that big, so you’re talking 20-odd years since Tomb Raider was number one in pop culture.
I think most people think of the films first, and Angelina Jolie, before they do the games. I definitely think younger gamers will probably be pretty ignorant of the series, and that wouldn’t really be their fault.
I hope the new game is good, and comes out sometime soon, but if they say it’s cancelled and they’ve sold the franchise on to someone else I wouldn’t be surprised. If it does come out then it’s going to have to be amazing to reverse years of increasing irrelevance. Focus
It’s the children who are wrong You’re the most reliable review site bar none, such that I frequently make decisions based on your detailed and informed analysis (your passion for the form coursing through the beautifully crafted prose). After reading your review, I’ll definitely be downloading Sektori, as it’s a genre I love.
But the Kirby Air Riders review has me slightly baffled as it’s a total outlier and I can’t think of a comparable example in the 20 or so years I’ve followed your reviews. Despite very positive reviews by Eurogamer and IGN, yours is enough to put me off buying it.
Have you ever considered writing a feature on your most controversial reviews and reflections on whether you stand by them (and whether vindicated over the passage of time)? GTA 5 comes to mind as, if memory serves well, you gave it (a very generous in my opinion) 8 out 10.
Secondly, when, as with Kirby, your appraisal is such an outlier, does it give you cause to reconsider and even give the game in question another try? I’d love to see a reflection piece on that particular review and the contrasting takes on the game.
People like to say it’s all subjective and ‘just your opinion’, but you’re experts and your views are not the equivalent of a casual gamer or biased towards a particular company, IP or genre, they actually matter and materially affect what people purchase and play – they do me at least! Ciara
GC: Thanks, but we’ve already spent more than enough time with Kirby Air Riders. Perhaps we will do a feature on other times we’ve disagreed with the consensus, if anyone else has any ‘favourites’.
Nintendo by Sony Bought a PlayStation 5 on the Black Friday sale and I have to say Astro’s Playroom is amazing. It has to be the best pack-in game ever.
This is what Welcome Tour for Switch 2 should have been. goldbricks23
GC: If only.
Face of the franchise I’ve been following your ongoing coverage of the new IO Interactive James Bond game, primarily because I’m a fan of the developer but I do have nagging doubts about the face that they’ve chosen for James Bond.
I was trying to think, throughout the movies does Bond smile at all? Certainly not a lot. I’d cross the street to avoid 007 First Light’s smirking cheeky chappie interpretation of Bond, if that is indeed the face that IO Interactive are going with. He looks like the kind of bloke who’d find his own rubbish jokes hilariously funny or go on and on about the fortune that he’s just made buying and selling crypto currency, which is going to enable him to retire 30 years early and so he’ll have plenty of time to enter and win another around the world yacht race and tinker with his vintage sports car which he bought on a whim but has actually turned out to be a terrific investment.
007 First Light Bond would also own at least one pair of driving gloves. You know he would.
It’s possible that I’m overreacting or being oversensitive, but that smirking reinvention of Bond really winds me up every time I see it. I know the game is based more on the books but isn’t Bond meant to be emotionally cold and ruthless and, above all, dangerous? First Light James Bond simply looks annoying.
I wonder if any game has been financially scuppered by the appearance of its main character? Surely video game avatars have to appeal to the people who control them to some extent because they are the player’s core connection to the game. There was a big fuss over being forced to play as Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2 but didn’t the game sell well anyway?
Maybe it doesn’t matter what a game’s playable character looks like if the actual game plays well. Michael Veal (@msv858)
GC: We would hope so. Although we don’t disagree with some of your descriptions.
Inbox also-rans As someone that’s never really played much Battlefield before I am surprised at how well the new one is doing. Is it really so completely different to Battlefield 2042, which was a complete flop? Toasty
Am I the only one that played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with French voiceovers? If you played silent Hill f and Ghost Of Yōtei in Japanese I really don’t see why this would be any different. It’s the langue the game was made in and they’re all clearly French. Label
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