Shannon Sawyer

Introduction: Take me home, country roads … but be careful of wandering those roads in West Virginia at night. Listen to the wind in the trees. Is that the flapping of wings? What a sight, those giant red eyes. Voice so strange, you can run and run, but it descends all the same. The Mothman […]

Radiation is the fun and exciting gift that keeps on giving in Fallout, and in Fallout 76, radiation comes with the bonus surprise gift of mutations in every box! But what if you want to keep your mutation, but you’re about to die from radiation? Do you have to choose between life and thousands of

Welcome back to our little corner of post-apocalyptia in good ol’ West Virginia. If you’re defending yourself in this nuclear hellscape, chances are you’re packing a few guns, but you’ll find yourself in some challenging positions the moment you run out of ammunition. You can poke around in containers and the pockets of enemies, but

I think we’re all tired and sick of diseases, wouldn’t you agree? But you can’t escape the microbial terrors, even in video games. Fallout 4’s Survival Mode added new difficulties for players, but the introduction of diseases shook things up in the game. Diseases were a game element that not only made its way into

Wandering the post-apocalyptic wasteland is a dangerous game. That does not change in Fallout 76. You will be arming yourself with whatever you can to fight off violent mutated wolves, feral ghouls, and whatever else is out there that’s thirsty for blood. Guns and hand-to-hand are all well and good, but if you’re a one-person

Fallout has plenty of weapons you can use to defend yourself, but there are two ways of going about it: up close and personal and long-range. If you don’t feel like hitting a Deathclaw with a stop sign, it’s time to strap yourself with guns, but only recently, from Fallout 3 and onwards, have you

Each new game in the Fallout franchise introduces new and intriguing mechanics. Fallout 3 and New Vegas introduced crafting weapons and ammunition, and Fallout 4 introduced settlement building and Fallout 76 diseases. Fallout 76 took the consequences of radiation and spiced it up with mutations, special status effects that come with a cost and benefit

One of the core tenants of the Fallout series is scavenging resources. With the Wastelanders expansion for Fallout 76, you’ll often hear a scavenger or two mentioning that money from before the war has more worth as kindling than cash. You’ll be doing the same thing, scrapping junk and weapons of a bygone era to