Fallout games are gathering steam thanks to the TV series.
Fallout games are gathering steam thanks to the TV series.
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Fallout games get a halo effect from popular TV series

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Fallout games are getting a big halo effect from the popularity of Amazon Prime’s Fallout streaming show that debuted last week.

Steam data tracker SteamDB said that Bethesda’s Fallout games more than doubled their concurrent player numbers on Steam with the release of the Fallout show, IGN reported.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.