Music Inspired by Fallout

Another jem on Jamendo: Nuclearization, Voyage in the Post Atomic Unknown is by Emitremmus, who appears to do other game music (or music inspired by games). If you know who Mark Morgan is, you might want to listen to this. For that matter, if you like Mark Morgan, take note that the full Fallout 1 and 2 soundtracks are part of the package for Fallout at GOG.com.

Royalty free music for professional licensing

Chernobyl 25 years later

I am endlessly fascinated with Pripyat and the other areas aroudn Chernobyl, its the closest we have in the modern world to an ongoing experiment in decay. Anyway, fascinating pictures. I know people like to complain about how all modern day shooters set in grim, dirty post-apocalyptics environments seem to only come in shades of brown and grey, but there's a pretty good reason for this. It's a tiny slice of Fallout without the unpleasant issue of the rest of the world suffering the same fate.

I expect the next generation of grim dirty brown shooters to do a better job of modelling wrinkling paint chips though, after seeing these pictures!

Anyway, reminds me of a great short story set in the region written by Tim Curran (a great modern pastiche author of the mythos, track him down if you haven't read him before) in Horrors Beyond 2.

Rage

Okay, I think I am officially stoked for this game. It looks good enough that it might just replace Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas as my two favorite CRPGs....

I may preorder it. It's due out October 4th, and the missus also wants a copy. That gives us roughly a month to enjoy it before B Day!