The Latest Breaking News from Tim Cain

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain explains the biggest RPG sins, including annoying NPCs, bad exposition, and those terrible escort missions: "'This escort quest will be fun.' They'd be wrong."

OG Fallout artist Leonard Boyarsky says The Outer Worlds 2 almost had its own 'old school Obsidian' evil ending, but it took too much effort for too little payoff: 'I love making these types of games, but it is very stressful'

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain's long list of "nitpicky" D&D questions for Wizards of the Coast in 2002 might help explain why Larian wanted to move on from the tabletop license after Baldur's Gate 3

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says game prices 'have resisted matching inflation' because publishers have been pocketing the 'cost savings' from digital distribution

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain remembers buying Super Nintendo games "for $59 in the '90s," but while digital games saved publishers money "those cost savings for digital weren't passed on to consumers"

Fallout leads debated making the original game 3D like Tomb Raider, but couldn't get "the amount of detail" they wanted – something Bethesda eventually achieved in Fallout 3

The Outer Worlds 2 is a love letter to Obsidian's favorite genre, and nobody knows it better than its devs: "The fact that we're able to deliver this style of RPG in this day and age is a fantastic thing"

Fallout co-creator warns studios amid rising layoffs and focus on AI that devs are not replaceable: "You're left with a company where nobody knows anything"

The original Fallout's lead developer says China nuked first, vault suits were meant to be 'extruded' by a machine, and yes Sugar Bombs are a Calvin and Hobbes reference

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain had a "10-year period where I didn't do anything but make games," to the point where he asked a co-worker if Britney Spears was a "new weapon" in their RPG

What does OG Fallout's co-creator want to see in the series? An 'actual good faction, like 100% good'