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As gamers might have heard by now, the mysterious Fallout 4 website turned out to be a hoax and an elaborate prank. On the surface it might seem that the creator of the website might simply be trolling the gaming community simply because he could, but as it turns out his intentions while a little mean, were somewhat good as the goal of the fake website was to force Bethesda’s hand into revealing something about the franchise, such as to either deny that it was being worked on flat out, or to reveal that they have nothing to announce yet, which is good news as it could mean that the game is in development.

This was according to the prankster’s Reddit AMA where he wrote, “I wanted to force Bethesda to reveal something during VGX, and bring [the Reddit] Fallout community together (for at least 3 weeks). Unfortunately, this plan failed.” While he failed to force Bethesda to do anything, he did reveal that Bethesda got in touch with him and warned him about the potential backlash he might face from creating the fake website. In fact had it not been for Bethesda’s intervention, the prankster would have released a fake CGI trailer which would undoubtedly cause many to fall for it.

At the end of the day, however, he admitted that it was a pretty mean-spirited prank, with him concluding, “I know I’m a douche.”

Fallout 4 Website Creator Hoped His Stunt Would Force Bethesda To Reveal Their Hand original content from Ubergizmo.

Bethesda has been strongly hinting at a Fallout-related reveal for the past few weeks, with the latest tease coming in the form of a mysterious message found on an equally mysterious website simply known as The Survivor 2299. It looks as though The Survivor 2299 isn’t done with their teasing as a new message has just been released. (more…)

Fallout 4 Teaser Website Reveals New Message; Counting Down To Dec. 11 original content from Ubergizmo.

If you were hoping that Bethesda will be making an announcement at the upcoming Spike TV VGX this weekend, prepare to be disappointed. This is according to a tweet made by Bethesda’s Pete Hines who wrote, “I am not going to VGX. Bethesda is not showing/talking about anything at VGX. Just some PR meetings in LA. Take deep breaths.” This is without doubt a huge disappointment for gamers who were hoping that Bethesda would be making some kind of Fallout announcement during the event. After all the company had unveiled Skyrim during the Spike TV VGAs (before it was changed to VGX), so it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to announce something new this year.

Rumors of Fallout 4 have been circling for a while now, although it was recently with the launch of a mysterious “The Survivor 2299” website that fueled speculation that a Fallout 4 announcement was imminent. Additional updates all seemed to make reference to previous Fallout games and the franchise in general. However the countdown clock on the website did not line up with the Spike TV VGX, leading some to believe that perhaps the website could be a hoax, especially since you can register a website under a different name, not necessarily your real one. Either way there is still a slim chance that the countdown clock could point to a separate announcement, but in the meantime we suggest you not get your hopes up just yet.

Bethesda Has Nothing To Announce At The Spike TV VGX original content from Ubergizmo.

Having spent over 2,000 hours working on the enormous — and enormously impressive — Skyrim mod “Falskaar,” Alexander Velicky was dead set on getting a design job in the game industry. ” I set my sights on a professional design job pretty early, I lowered my head, charged forward, and rarely looked back,” he said in a recent forum post. Though you might expect his Skyrim chops would land him at Bethesda Softworks, the studio behind the beloved first-person RPG, he’s just accepted a job at Bungie Studios working on Destiny.

Velicky spent much of the last four years working on modding, first getting his start in Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout 3. When Skyrim launched in 2011, he continued working with Bethesda’s modding tools, only this time he created a massive game with “20 – 30 hours” worth of exploration and questing — he even recorded new voiceover work and a unique soundtrack.

That whole cloth approach to modding assuredly helped land Velicky the new gig at Bungie, and it’s not the first time we’ve seen as much. Armed Assault 3 modder Dean Hall created Day Z, which is now being published as a standalone project. Take that as a lesson, y’all: dreams do come true! At least if you work incredibly hard at them.

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As last week came to a close, we brought you word that Bethesda had already launched a teaser website, leading many to believe that Fallout 4 is imminent. The Fallout series had proven themselves to be extremely popular among gamers, leaving an open ended way for you to “build” your character in the way you like it, offering a way to complete the game in a myriad of ways. Well, we are more than pleased to bring you word that Bethesda had already trademarked Fallout 4 in Europe, although we are left scratching our heads as to why Bethesda had only decided to apply for this trademark recently, despite having the property under their care and guidance for years.

This particular trademark, having been made known so close after we were treated to the appearance of a teaser website, will most probably be connected to one another. This will most probably mean that Fallout 4 is indeed in the pipeline, and you can be more or less sure that the game will be a hit when it finally arrives. It would then be time to say hello to sleepless nights, and goodbye to your social life! What would you like to see introduced in Fallout 4 that you missed in its previous three iterations?

Fallout 4 Trademarked In Europe By Bethesda original content from Ubergizmo.