{"id":43300,"date":"2012-08-20T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43300"},"modified":"2012-08-20T12:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:50:45","slug":"fallout-4-rumoured-to-be-set-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43300-fallout-4-rumoured-to-be-set-in-boston","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 4 rumoured to be set in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next instalment in the Fallout series could see the setting shift to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The tip comes from an MIT student, who claims that Bethesda is in the Massachusetts capital doing research for the next game.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Reddit, the tipster explained, \u201cThe rumors are true, Fallout 4 will take place in Boston. In case you haven\u2019t heard, Bethesda has recently been scoping out and researching Boston. They also have a strong connection to MIT. I may or may not be an MIT employee. But that\u2019s really all I can say for fear of losing my job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cstudent\u201d, who wants to remain anonymous, added: \u201cApologies for the vagueness of this post. It\u2019s not just my job that worries me, but also getting the f**k sued out of me. Bethesda\u2019s contracts are basically full-proof [sic] so if they were to discover who I am, or rather, who I got this information from, a few people including myself could get into a lot of trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43302\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MIT_Alumni_Association_dome.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43302\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43302 \" title=\"MIT_Alumni_Association_dome\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MIT_Alumni_Association_dome.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Could MIT be an important location in Fallout 4?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another Reddit user reiterated the initial poster\u2019s claims: \u201cI\u2019ve been hearing reports from people in the Boston area, where my fellow Fallout-obsessed brother lives, that Bethesda has been in the Boston area doing initial research for Fallout 4. It\u2019s highly speculative, but the main rumors surround Bethesda\u2019s connection to \u201cThe Institute\u201d, or what we call the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or M.I.T.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, these seem like pretty empty claims, although there have been rumours surrounding a Boston setting for quite some time.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/wi9d2\/fallout_4_in_the_commonwealth_unconfirmed_rumors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxm.co.uk\/45008\/fallout-4-is-set-in-massachusetts-home-of-the-institute-androids-freedom-fighters-rumour\/\" target=\"_blank\">OXM<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36390-bethesda-threatens-fallout-fan-site-with-legal-action.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bethesda threatens Fallout fan-site with legal action<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42421-susan-sarandon-leads-impressive-dishonored-voice-cast.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Susan Sarandon leads impressive Dishonored voice cast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43290-games-you-can-play-this-week-17.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Games you can play this week<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43191-top-gaming-news-this-week-7.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Top gaming news this week (6-12 August)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/43025-the-last-of-us-the-relationship-between-joel-and-ellie.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Last of Us \u2013 get to know Joel and Ellie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit user deals some rumours around Bethesda\u2019s next battleground<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":43301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,165,6317,1593,6316,2219,6318,6315,773],"class_list":["post-43300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bethesda","tag-boston","tag-fallout","tag-fallout-4","tag-megarom","tag-mit","tag-next-fallout","tag-rumour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43306,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43300\/revisions\/43306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}