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Ambitious Fallout: New Vegas Van Buren remake mod locks in an early March release date for its second demo
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Ambitious Fallout: New Vegas Van Buren remake mod locks in an early March release date for its second demo

Not long after changing their project's name from Fallout: Revelation Blues to Fallout: The New West, the developers behind a New Vegas mod remaking a cancelled Fallout game have settled on a release date for their second demo. The second publicly playable taste of this attempt to resurrect Van Buren - the version of Fallout 3 which was in development at Black Isle Studios before being cancelled in 2003 - is slated to arrive late next week. Read more

Microsoft's throne room rejigging has seen Sarah Bond take the bullet for marketing strategy which was "failing internally", report claims
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Microsoft's throne room rejigging has seen Sarah Bond take the bullet for marketing strategy which was "failing internally", report claims

In case you missed it, Friday saw news arrive of a substantial corporate reshuffle at the top of Microsoft's gaming division. CEO Phil Spencer was revealed to be retiring at the same time Xbox president Sarah Bond was revealed to have resigned, leaving new boss and former president of Microsoft CoreAI Asha Sharma to don the crown of green plastic. A report from The Verge has now offered a bit more detail as to how all this chair-switching went down, and unsurprisingly, it reads like an account