Few have thrived, much less survived in the wasteland of video game to TV and movie adaptations. Amazon Prime Video and Bethesda Game Studios’ new adaptation of the Fallout video game series joins the elite club of successful conversions alongside HBO’s The Last of Us and Netflix’s Arcane, among few others. Released this past week on April 12th, the Fallout TV series has received widespread acclaim from both critics and audiences, currently sitting at a 94% critic score and 88% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Where most adaptations have failed, Fallout has thrived by keeping the TV series within the canon lore of the games and branching out with a new, untold story within the same universe. Without giving too much away, the series revolves around three main characters: a vault dweller named Lucy, a Brotherhood of Steel trainee Maximus, and a film actor turned bounty hunter “The Ghoul.” All eight episodes are available now and a second season is expected to be announced sooner than later.
In addition to pulling in high praise with the show, the Fallout series is also seeing a huge spike in player numbers, with most games tripling their concurrent player numbers on Steam over this past week and Fallout 76 setting a new concurrent player peak of nearly 40,000 players playing on Steam this past weekend. Looking to dive into the games? Prime Gaming is currently giving a number of them away to subscribers, they are all included in the Game Pass catalog, and many storefronts are currently running sales as well. Throw on a suit and dive in, vault dweller!
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