An Xbox developer made a big whoopsie and accidentally gave players a free (but broken) version of the game that led to OG Fallout, but rather than snatching the lucky (but, again, botched) freebie away from gamers, the studio is simply giving people a way to play it properly.
"A couple weeks ago an error made Wasteland Remastered free on the Microsoft/Xbox Store, but what people snagged before we fixed the glitch can't actually be played," developer inXile Entertainment writes on social media. "So, we're giving them one that can."
The developer says players who were lucky enough to redeem Wasteland Remastered while it was temporarily available for free will soon have the non-working version of the game removed from their libraries automatically. Those same players should have a new, unbroken digital copy of Wasteland Remastered waiting for them in their Xbox accounts.
For those unsure of where to find the game, inXile Entertainment points people to the 'Offers & Credits' section of the Xbox page. "Hope you enjoy and see you in the Wasteland."
And for those not in the know, Wasteland is a top-down old-school role-playing game set in a very scrappy, post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear version of America. Sound familiar? Well, the game was first developed by Interplay Productions before the storied company used it as a basis to then make the first Fallout.
As inXile says, Wasteland is essentially "the grand pappy of post-apoc." It was Fallout before Fallout was a thing.
Interplay co-founder Brian Fargo then opened inXile Entertainment as an independent developer many years later and eventually wrangled the ownership of the Wasteland franchise away from Electronic Arts, leading to two more pretty excellent entries in the series. The studio and the rights to Wasteland were acquired by Xbox in 2018, shortly before Xbox bought the actual Fallout IP. The more things change...
InXile Entertainment's now working on a time-bending, steampunk-ish first-person game called Clockwork Revolution, which is shaping up to be one of the more exciting new games on the horizon.
