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Fallout: London’s DLC is still “coming soon”, but you can now immersively drink its irradiated tea in VR
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Fallout: London’s DLC is still “coming soon”, but you can now immersively drink its irradiated tea in VR

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Fallout: London might have launched buggier than a holiday at a nature reserve dedicated to cockroaches and coders, but since that point Team FOLON’s put a lot of effort into making sure people can enjoy the pretty damn good game it’s created. While you’ll have to wait a bit longer for some Londony DLC, you can now play some of the mod in VR.

This Fallout: London VR mod is available to grab right now in beta form via Nexus Mods, having been developed by a team led by modder Asciimov. So, it hasn’t come from Team FOLON directly. That said, Fallout: London project lead Dean ‘Prilladog’ Carter has shouted it out via an announcement on Team FOLON’s Discord server.

“Please note that this is a community-made and unofficial mod by Asciimov’s ‘Fallout: London VR’ modding team,” Carter wrote, “Team FOLON does not provide any support for this.

“This mod and its conversation system are still in beta, as only around 10% of the quests (one main storyline) have currently been tested, but at the moment all known game breaking bugs have been fixed.” So, you can at least get started with your virtual reality trip to the city of baked beans, bowler hats, and blokes who sound like Michael Caine.

Carter also headed any questions folks might have about the Fallout: London DLC that Team FOLON’s working on off at the pass, adding: “If you are expecting us to announce the DLCs, they are still in the works and coming soon.” Cool.

If you fancy giving the Fallout: London VR mod a go, the list of requirements is on its Nexus Mods page. You’ll need Fallout 4 with all DLC, Mod Organiser 2, Fallout 4 Script Extender VR version 0.6.21, and – unsurprisingly – Fallout: London. The Fallout: London VR team also has its own Discord server you can head to for help troubleshooting issues that don’t have potential fixes outlined already.



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Daily active users were 225% higher for Fallout 3 and 4 in weeks following TV premiere
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Daily active users were 225% higher for Fallout 3 and 4 in weeks following TV premiere

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Following the success of Amazon Prime’s Fallout series, daily active users were 225% higher for Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 in the weeks following the show’s premiere last April.

That’s according to a report conducted by Sensor Tower, which looked into the effect film and television adaptations are having on the games they’re based on.

Sensor Tower found that sales of Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 rose 125% and 410% respectively, as both games dropped in price during the week of the show’s premiere.

The series boosted DAUs for mobile spin-off Fallout Shelter, too, which increased by 77% while in-app purchases revenue jumped 150%.

App downloads of Amazon Prime Video grew by 20% during the week Fallout debuted. Amazon has since announced a premiere window for its second season – December 2025 – and greenlit a third series.

Sensor Tower also collated data on HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us, and Warner Bros. box office smash with A Minecraft Movie.

It found that DAUs for The Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2 rose 40% following the premiere of the show’s second season on April 13, 2025. HBO Max also saw a 6% increase of app downloads.

In contrast to Fallout, Sensor Tower noted that the “results for The Last of Us hinged on bringing new awareness to the franchise” rather than the “free-to-play” nature of Fallout Shelter and “the uniqueness of the show’s story from the game.”

The Last of Us has since been renewed for a third season, with HBO’s programming EVP Francesca Orsi telling Deadline that there will likely be four seasons of the show.

As for A Minecraft Movie – which surpassed $550 million in ten days – mobile in-app purchases rose 44% while console games saw an increase of 36% during the month of its release.

Sensor Tower noted a 9% spike in mobile players for Minecraft in contrast to a 41% increase on console following the film’s premiere.

As reported by Deadline, Warner Bros. has since confirmed there is a sequel for A Minecraft Movie in the works.



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Fallout 76's New Season Has The Best Name, Includes Basket Of Dead Fish
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Fallout 76’s New Season Has The Best Name, Includes Basket Of Dead Fish

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Bethesda has announced the next major update for Fallout 76, and it’s all about fishing. Season 21, which has the excellent name “Gone Fission,” releases on June 3.

Gone Fission allows players to cast their lines into any region in Appalachia, and the waters are filled with a “plethora of fish.” Some of these include the Noxious Sawgill, the Bloodwhisker, and the Glowing Gulpy. Bethesda also confirmed that rare axolotls will rotate each month. Check out the Season 21 trailer below.

Season 21 also includes a variety of fishing-themed rewards, including the Gone Fission Neon Sign, the Houseboat, and the Basket of Dead Fish. The rewards can be displayed at your C.A.M.P. You can redeem the rewards with season tickets.

Deck your C.A.M.P. out with Basket of Dead Fish.

You can click through the gallery below to see the 11 pages of rewards for the Gone Fission update. As you can see, there are lots of items you can acquire themed around fishing, including nets, rods, goggles, a taxidermy mermaid, fish hooks, and lots more.

Gone Fission.

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In other news, Bethesda is celebrating the launch of Doom: The Dark Ages by offering the Beelzebilly suit, the Beelzebilly head, and the Mr. Demonic backpack in Fallout 76 for players who sign up for Bethesda marketing emails.

The Doom rewards in Fallout 76.

Fallout 76 players have until June 27 to claim the Doom-themed items for free.



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Indie Fallout wiki joins forces with the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, ensuring a bright future for looking up RPG lore uninterrupted by half-page video ads

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The Independent Fallout Wiki and the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP) have announced a new partnership joining the two endeavors. Both sites’ curation, expansiveness, and, crucially, user experiences with minimal/unobtrusive ads make them cherished resources on the internet of 2025.

“We’re now proud to be the host of the Independent Fallout Wiki,” UESP wrote on Bluesky. “We don’t want to become one of those wikifarms that tries to trap sites, so we’ve also set things up to allow for them to freely change hosts in the future if they ever wish, without us leaving a zombie site behind.”

That last bit was a fairly direct jab at Fandom, formerly known as Wikia, the hosting service behind the majority of well-trafficked pop culture wikis on the internet. Fextralife is another prominent wiki host gamers will be familiar with, with a specific focus on RPGs and Soulslikes.


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There’s a long, complicated history behind the hosting of wikis, but as a reader, it’s impossible not to notice the way their user experiences have degraded in the past ten years.

Fandom wikis tend to be saddled with enough ads that they become slow to load, particularly on mobile, with autoplay videos taking up half the screen—and that’s when they load in after a delay, partially resetting the page.

Fextralife, meanwhile, has more user-friendly pages but a serious curation/manpower issue: I’ve found incorrect information, links to missing pages, and placeholder text on its wikis years after games launch. Wikis for Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and even explosively popular games like Elden Ring and Divinity: Original Sin 2 all have frustrating gaps in information.

These detriments allowed the more well-maintained BG3.wiki to supersede Fextralife’s pre-existing Baldur’s Gate 3 wiki, which was started at the time of early access, after the game’s 1.0 launch.

Both Fextralife and Fandom tend to dominate the search engine optimization (SEO) of properties in their portfolios (Google search: [Insert Game] Wiki), making it difficult for competitors to become visible. There’s also a legitimate question of long-term maintenance.

Many wikis turned to Fandom hosting in the first place for the stability and continuity of a large organization. For more niche games and topics, a wiki farm is insurance that a site will not be entirely abandoned if interest in the subject wanes. There’s also the question of upkeep costs for hosting such large websites.

Even still, many wikis have chosen to migrate away from Fandom in recent years, a process outlined in a Medium editorial from 2023 by Wikipedia enthusiast Linden Clayton.

A previous great migration from Fandom to the hosting service Gamepedia had an awkward ending, however, when a portion of parent company Curse was bought by Fandom in 2018, bringing the schismatic wikis back into the fold. We come full-circle back to Fallout, whose Fandom wikis seem to have had a particularly long and complicated history.

UESP, meanwhile, has been independent since 1995, and has recently expanded its offerings to include podcasts, a fan Discord, and Elder Scrolls merch drops while accepting reader support through Patreon.

UESP’s retro, no-frills interface looks much as it did when I first went there around the releases of Skyrim and Oblivion, a stalwart old friend who has survived the years unchanged. The Independent Fallout Wiki looks to be in good hands.

PCG weekend editor Jody Macgregor shouted out Bulbapedia and the Team Fortress 2 Wiki as notable independents in his recent love letter to UESP, and I’d also like to praise the Baldur’s Gate 3 Wiki one more time: It really is an amazing resource. I’ll also always carry a torch for the Souls series Wikidot wikis, even though Chrome flags them as a security risk⁠—I still haven’t gotten a virus there yet!



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Public Keys: Coinbase Hack Fallout, MSTR Legal Strife and Stable-Curious Wall Street

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In brief

  • Coinbase released a few more worrying details about the data breach it reported last week.
  • Strategy got hit with a class action lawsuit, then launched a “crown jewel” of a $2.1 billion stock offering.
  • A trio of banks are mulling a stablecoin contender, but it would be used on a permissioned network.

Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies.

This week:

Worrying details from Coinbase

The data breach Coinbase told users and investors about last week has gotten a little more worrying.

It’s not that more data has been stolen. But the company filed a disclosure with the Maine Attorney General that included a few key details that were missing from its SEC filing and blog post about the exploit.

The breach occurred on December 26, 2024, and wasn’t discovered until May 11, 2025. That means the company went 136 days without knowing customer data had been compromised. The only spot on Coinbase’s 8-K filing that mentions December is the boilerplate about forward looking statements.



In its blog post, Coinbase described the number of users impacted as “less than 1%” of its monthly transacting users—leaving readers to do the math on their own. But it was more explicit in the Maine filing, saying 69,461 users had data leaked.

Don’t get us wrong. The company’s stock, which trades on the Nasdaq under the COIN ticker, has shaken off the post-disclosure investor jitters. It had climbed to $271.95 by yesterday’s close. That’s the highest the price has been since February and was likely spurred along by Bitcoin reaching a new all-time high.

But, uh, is there anything else we should know about that data breach? Asking for about 70,000 friends. With the personal details, including home addresses, of potentially high-net-worth individuals in the wind, TechCrunch and Arrington Capital Founder Michael Arrington is concerned lives could be at risk.

Run that ‘Crown Jewel’ fast

Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor and his company face a new class action lawsuit from investors who allege they were misled about the risks of the company’s aggressive Bitcoin accumulation strategy.

In particular, the plaintiffs take issue with Strategy saying in its latest earnings report that ““[w]e may not be able to regain profitability in future periods, particularly if we incur significant unrealized losses related to our digital assets.”

Filed in a Virginia federal court, the suit claims MicroStrategy downplayed the volatility of Bitcoin, leading to significant investor losses.

But you know the Strategy playbook by now: Bitcoin buying will continue until prices improve. Days later, the company unveiled a “crown jewel” offering of $2.1 billion worth of Perpetual Strife Preferred Stock (STRF).

Investors seem dubious of this latest offering, though. In the same week that Bitcoin twice set a new all-time high, MSTR shares are ending it 7% lower than they were last Friday.

Stable contenders

Recent progress on the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill in D.C. has Wall Street stalwarts JPMorgan, Citi, and Wells Fargo considering a partnership to create their own dollar-pegged stablecoin, according to a report earlier this week from The Wall Street Journal.

It’s potentially big if true, but unclear just how much market share the three banks could nab from the $248 billion worth of stables already in circulation, according to CoinGecko data.

There’s one detail that gives us pause: The banks are exploring tokenized deposit products—all good so far—and permissioned blockchains. That’s where a lot of big institutions start to lose on-chain credibility. (“Permissioned” is techno-speak for “private,” which makes these kinds of networks really just blockchains in name only.)

Compliance teams are still wary of conducting business on a public network. But when you take away the permissionless part, then projects start to look like the same old systems with buzzy new technology that makes them faster and cheaper.

But going the fully permissionless route isn’t a slam dunk, either. PayPal launched its PYUSD stablecoin on none other than Ethereum in August 2023. It’s currently the 110th largest stablecoin with a $880 million market capitalization, according to CoinGecko.

And it drew the ire of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which subpoenaed the company about the stablecoin in November 2023. It recently called off an investigation into PYUSD with no action taken.

It’s gotta be said, though, that fintech payments platform PayPal doesn’t have quite the same gravitas as three Wall Street institutions. If D.C. waves the green flag, things could get interesting.

Other Keys

  • Mocking crypto Batman: A bad actor who’s believed to be linked to the Coinbase data breach has been mocking on-chain sleuth ZachXBT. “L bozo,” the hacker wrote Wednesday evening through an Ethereum transaction using the blockchain’s input data message feature. The message was followed by a link to a YouTube meme video showing NBA legend James Worthy smoking a cigar. Gotham needs justice.
  • New base unit, who dis? Square CEO and laser-eyed Bitcoin maxi Jack Dorsey has joined the chorus of developers saying that Bitcoin’s base unit should be changed from “satoshis” to “Bitcoins.” This would render sayings like “Stacking sats” meaningless. A Bitcoin is made up of 100,000,000 satoshis, or “sats,” named after the cryptocurrency’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

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