Perfect for an apocalypse! How the nuclear bunker became TV’s hottest property
With tech bros investing in vast underground homes to shield them from future horrors, a slew of ‘bunker-buster’ dramas like Paradise and Silo are asking: do they know something we don’t?
December 2025
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Inside Fallout, gaming’s most surprising TV hit
TV review
Fallout season two review – this postapocalyptic thriller is absolutely hilarious
August 2025
The Armageddon complex
Catastrophe! Heroism! Paranoia! The dangerous romance of survivalist stories
Authors have been imagining societal collapse for decades – but could the reality be as dreadful as they think?
May 2025
The Q&A
The White Lotus’s Walton Goggins: ‘Who do I most admire? My wife, because of what we have overcome together’
The actor on obsessive cleaning, missing his own teeth, and his sand and dirt collection
October 2024
‘I can’t do gore and I’m not a gamer’: Ella Purnell on being an unlikely scream queen
From Yellowjackets to Fallout and now murderous new drama Sweetpea, the British actor is killing it. But behind all the grisly roles, she’s really sweet ... honest
September 2024
Emmys 2024 predictions: who will win and who should win?
Will Shōgun make good on its 25 nominations? Will The Bear reign supreme again in comedy? Is Baby Reindeer the frontrunner for limited series?
April 2024
Success of Fallout proves video game adaptations have gone mainstream
As the show becomes a global hit and is renewed for a second season, experts say game adaptations are the new superhero movies
‘They even got a real jetpack in there!’: Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout
The director of the Fallout TV series and the director of the modern Fallout video games sit down together to talk about the audacity of video-game storytelling and hope in a post-apocalyptic wasteland
TV review
Fallout review – an absolute blast of a TV show
This immaculately made, supremely witty post-apocalyptic drama is yet another brilliant video game adaptation. It’s funny, self-aware and tense – an astonishing balancing act
March 2024
‘I was freaking out’: Walton Goggins on fear, The White Lotus and being a 200-year-old mutant in Fallout
He isn’t afraid to suffer for his art – though even he couldn’t hack prosthetics in 41C heat. The actor talks secrets, sharing tips with Pedro Pascal … and why he loves not getting paid
January 2023
All the (open) world’s a stage: how the video game Fallout became a backdrop for live Shakespeare shows
Free to roam through the post-apocalyptic game, one intrepid group has taken to performing the Bard. They have found an intent new audience, as well as the odd mutant scorpion
September 2020
Game changer: Microsoft buys Elder Scrolls company ZeniMax for $7.5bn
Acquisition comes ahead of Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X consoles and could have significant impact on games industry
November 2018
Fallout 76 review – a pointless walk in the post-apocalypse
Microsoft buys two more video game studios
August 2018
Autumn arts preview 2018
Cowboys and superheroes: the most exciting video games of autumn 2018
Pick your battles, from ancient Greece to the second world war, swing like Spider-Man, or choose between teenage America and the postapocalypse kind
July 2018
Fallout 76: what you need to know about one of the biggest games of the year
Bethesda’s Todd Howard explains why the post-apocalypse simulator Fallout is becoming an online multiplayer, and why he is just as scared of it as the players
June 2018
E3 2018: Bethesda and Microsoft unveil Fallout, Elder Scrolls 6, Halo and Gears of War
Day one brought plenty of announcements, from Gears 5 and Halo Infinite to Fallout 76, Doom Eternal and Elder Scrolls VI
Day one of E3 2018 gave us new Halo, Gears of War, Fallout, and Elder Scrolls VI – as it happened
Join the Guardian’s video games editor Keza MacDonald and correspondent Keith Stuart for news from Microsoft’s Xbox press conference and the reveal of Bethesda’s new Fallout game on day one of E3
The 16 most anticipated games of E3 2018
The Last of Us getting nasty, Fallout 76 going back to armageddon and Pokemon Let’s Go dropping a nostalgia bomb are some of this year’s hottest prospects
