Early Version of 'Fallout: New Vegas' Leaked Online — Tons of Cut Content Found

YouTube channel Games' Past, which searches for lost prototypes and canceled games, posted a video where they dug into a beta version of Fallout: New Vegas, built a month before release.

The build turned out to be on an Xbox 360 dev kit, purchased at a secondhand store where it had been sitting for over a year. According to the authors, this build weighs almost two gigabytes more than the final version and contains a mass of cut or altered elements — from dialogues to entire characters.

For example, fans have long known that Mr. House once had a robot girlfriend named Marilyn — she even appeared on collectible playing cards, and modders found a single line left in the code. In this version, she is fully voiced and available for a complete conversation.

Additionally, researchers found an alternative appearance for Mr. House — more "earthly" and resembling Steve Buscemi. His lines include cut flirting scenes: if the heroine has high charisma, House offered to pay her for body scanning.

The beta also includes altered locations, radioactive green tumbleweeds, a different-voiced Oliver Swanick, and an NPC named Wasteland Adventurer who warns the player about deathclaws when leaving Goodsprings.

The main find is PDB files with debugging information that modders previously didn't have access to. This data could be a real gift for the community doing reverse engineering of Fallout: New Vegas.

So, as Reddit joked, "a game that was already considered infinite just got +10 years of content."