Few games drive as much breathless fever as Fallout 4, the game that everyone assumes Bethesda Game Studios is currently making. And few games have driven people so crazy.
Maybe itâs because people fell in love with the tone and scale of Bethesdaâs excellent Fallout 3 and their follow-up, the instant-classic Skyrim. Maybe itâs because Bethesda has been so quiet about their plans for the fourth Fallout, only hinting and teasing at a follow-up in press interviews over the past three years. Maybe itâs because weâre all desperate for a big, grand, post-apocalyptic RPG to play on our current-gen consoles. Probably itâs all of the above.
This Fallout 4 fever is legit, though, and itâs extended well beyond garbage fake websites. Today, for example, the world freaked out not over some big trailer leak or special announcement, but because someone put the words âFallout 4â in their Linkedin profile.
No joke. All sorts of reputable gaming websites ranging from IGN to PCGamer rushed to report this newsâthat some poor, hopefully-not-fired artist at the Guillermo del Toro-helmed Mirada Studios had listed âFallout 4 cinematic trailerâ on their public Linkedinâbecause the world is just that desperate for morsels of information on this game.
Then, in a hilarious and Konami-like move, Mirada Studios started frantically e-mailing gaming websites and asking them to take down the news, which itself was the perfect confirmation that this is the real deal. What should be a non-story became one of todayâs biggest events thanks to the Streisand Effect. (Nice job, Mirada.)
(via NeoGAF)
What we do know, outside of Linkedin creeping and speculation, is that Fallout 4 is most likely real, and chances are high itâll be revealed next month at Bethesdaâs big E3 press conference on Sunday, June 14. At this point the only question is whether the world can last that long.
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