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Fallout’s origin can be traced back to a pizza party Tim Cain threw

In the mid-1990s Interplay Entertainment acquired the Dungeons & Dragons licence, and would go on to publish Baldur’s Gate, Planescape: Torment, and Icewind Dale. The team working on a little post-apocalyptic RPG that would eventually be called Fallout was largely…

Fallout was a ‘B-tier product’ that lost both the licenses it was banking on and had its lead dev joking, ‘In a week, we’re going to be asking whether people want fries with their meal,’ but now he thinks those trials ‘turned out to be positives’

Fallout’s everywhere now, with half a dozen games and two seasons of television under its belt, but it used to be “a B-tier product,” as series co-creator Tim Cain recently told Game Informer. A lot went wrong during development and…