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«It's impossible»: Starfield developer revealed that Bethesda didn't even try to make its own Mass Effect
Gaming News March 19, 2026, 08:13 AMBethesda, while developing Starfield, did not even try to make something similar to Mass Effect. This was told by artist Istvan Pely, who worked on a space RPG, and previously on Fallout 3, Fallout 4 and other studio games. -
A Stolen Disc, a Missing White House, and VATS Inspired by Burnout: Wild Facts From Fallout’s History
Gaming News February 10, 2026, 02:48 AMGame Informer has published an extensive oral history of Fallout — a series of interviews with developers from Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment about the creation of Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4. Todd Howard, Emil Pagliarulo, Joshua Sawyer, and other key figures behind the franchise talked about how they transformed an isometric RPG into a mainstream hit. Here are ten of the wildest behind-the-scenes stories from Fallout’s development. -
“We Basically Stripped the World of Color”: Bethesda Artist Says Fallout 3 May Have Been Made Too Grim
Gaming News January 22, 2026, 05:54 AMIstvan Pely, an artist who worked on Fallout 3, has said that Bethesda deliberately pushed the game’s dark visual tone to distance it as much as possible from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. In hindsight, he believes the studio may have gone a bit too far.
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