Fallout's three-game Classic Collection is free again on the Epic Store
As Dame Shirley Bassey once famously bellowed, “It’s all just a little bit of history repeating”. And so it is with this week’s Epic Games Store giveaway of the Fallout Classic Collection, which Tim Sweeney previously wafted at storeshop visitors in December 2022 and February this year.
For those who didn’t grab it previously, the good news is there’s some neato stuff in the Fallout Classic Collection. You get, for instance, the game that started it all – Black Isle Studios’ original 1997 post-apocalyptic RPG, Fallout – plus its 1998 sequel. Both, of course, are bona fide classics, and Eurogamer sang their praises as part of a retrospective back in 2011.
“From the unrelentingly bleak, darkly ironic tone to the novelty of the open-world, post-apocalyptic setti…
Read moreBungie's former Marathon reboot director Chris Barrett reportedly ousted following inappropriate behaviour
Earlier this year, Chris Barrett, a senior figure at Bungie and the project lead on its Marathon reboot, was reported to have left the studio – and a new report has shed fresh light on his departure, claiming he was ousted after an internal investigation into inappropriate behaviour.
Back in March, IGN reported former Valorant game director Joe Ziegler had taken over Barrett’s role on the Marathon reboot as part of a creative leadership shake-up at Bungie. Now, however, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier claims Barrett was fired from the studio this spring, after being accused of inappropriate behaviour by “at least eight” female employees.
Speaking directly to some of the women who had originally filed complaints against Barrett, alongside a number of employees invo…
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