Awesome Fallout

Man at Arms: Reforged used found objects and 19th century techniques and tools to make four weapons from Fallout 4: a bat with nails on it, an aluminum bat with saw blades, the Revolutionary Sword and Kremvh’s Tooth.

ThinkGeek’s officially-licensed Pip-Boy 3000 Mk. IV replica. This post-apocalyptic wearable device has working knobs and screen that displays a variety of decorative interfaces, but it can also show incoming SMS and calls if you pair it with your smartphone.

YouTuber Cosmic Contrarian likes his Fallout 4 battles big. Recently, he created a battle in which 30,000 automatron robots took on The Commonwealth. As amazing as this is, be sure to check out some of his other awe-inspiring battle videos.

YouTuber Many A True Nerd spawned a new kind of let’s play video. He made an abridged playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure books to let us dictate how the video plays out. Turn annotations on.

(Gore) Joey van Embden created this fan tribute to Fallout 4 using a combination of in-game footage set to the uplifting 1978 Queen track Don’t Stop Me Now. Bethesda should really use this as a commercial.

The Automatron add-on for Fallout 4 unveils the Machinist and his robot army. But you’ll be able to harvest his robots for parts to make your own, and customize its armor, limbs, weapons, abilities, paint scheme and even voice. Drops 3/22/16 for $10.

Threezero’s sixth scale T-45 is one of the most mouth-watering action figures we’ve ever seen. It stands 14.5″ tall and comes with a laser rifle. You’ll be able to swap the armor pieces between this and future Power Armor figures. Drops 1/28/16 for $380+.

Here comes the candy cane pain train. Machinima master Tyrannicon turned Santa Claus into post-apocalyptic Boston’s Judge Dredd. Who needs a sleigh when you have power armor? Check out the video’s description for the list of mods used.

“He lost his son, so he adopted the streets.” YouTuber DefendTheHouse made a basketball trick shot video in Fallout 4 with the help of the game’s drug Jet, which slows down everything else but the player. Bonus points for the ballin’ backing track, Whispering Through by Asura.

(PG-13) Fallout 4 lets you build settlements, complete with customizable lighting. YouTuber Saucy Sausage spent a total of 20 hours erecting this proof that even in the wasteland, boys will be boys. The climax is at 3:40, but you should watch the whole thing.

(PG-13) videogamedunkey shows what you can do with console commands, a nuke-wielding pot calling the kettle black and that melons are the new cheese. Post-nuclear King Kong needs to have his own power armor.

(PG-13: Language) Fallout 4 has a robot butler named Codsworth that can recognize and say certain player names. Polygon played a Scribblenautsian name game with the robot to test its limits. If he can’t say your name, you might be insulted at what he can say.

(Crude humor, Gore) Conan admires his own body, goes on a killing spree with the Slow Downy Machine and looks for post-nuclear hookups in the latest Clueless Gamer episode. War. War never changes. And by war we mean Fallout‘s graphics.

“You don’t find the Institute. The Institute finds you.” The launch trailer for Fallout 4 hints that MIT’s post-nuclear incarnation will play a significant role in the game, with its androids being a particularly significant concern among survivors.

Microsoft is giving away a Fallout 4-themed custom Xbox One console along with an Xbox One copy of the sold out Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition. Details on Major Nelson’s website. Skip to 2:43 to view the “Pip-Box One.”

This Fallout 4 ad is a slick live action version of the game, complete with Dogmeat, power armor and robot butlers. It also managed to recontextualize a sleazy song. Imagine hearing Mambo No. 5 in the trailer for Fallout 15.

The latest Fallout 4 short tackles one our most important traits, post-nuclear survivor or not. A high intelligence makes it easier to hack security, make weapons, navigate, heal and make experimental drugs.

What could charm possibly do for you in a post-nuclear world? Turns out, a lot. In Fallout 4, having a high Charisma stat will make it easier for you to barter, befriend wild creatures, coerce others and more.

The latest SPECIAL short takes on something even Fallout newbies can understand. The Endurance trait helps you run farther, resist radiation, become a cannibal… So why watch it? Because it’s the funniest video in the series yet.

For Fallout 4, Bethesda simplified the way you acquire Perks and Skills. Both are now simply called Perks and are grouped under the seven SPECIAL traits. The higher you are in one trait, the more Perks you can unlock in that group. More here.

The second episode of Fallout 4‘s SPECIAL video series shows how important the Perception stat will be in the game. It will have an impact on your accuracy when using VATS as well as on your thieving skills.

Bethesda keeps the Fallout 4 hype boat afloat by highlighting the franchise’s underlying attribute system SPECIAL in a series of ’40s-style animated short films. First up is Strength.

Inspired by the gamer who paid for his copy of Fallout 4 with thousands of bottle caps, The Game Theorists estimated the value in dollars of both Fallout’s bottle cap currency as well as real world bottle caps.