{"id":61225,"date":"2014-01-04T05:52:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61225"},"modified":"2014-01-04T05:54:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:54:47","slug":"fallout-disappears-but-hope-remains-bethesda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61225-fallout-disappears-but-hope-remains-bethesda","title":{"rendered":"Fallout disappears, but hope remains: Bethesda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much loved classics Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout: Tactics disappeared from digital stores at the beginning of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to the Fallout license finally being fully transferred from Interplay to Bethesda.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who were on the ball may have grabbed them for free as GOG.com conducted one last give-away back in December.<\/p>\n<p>Bethesda has now announced via Twitter that &#8220;We&#8217;re working to return classic Fallout games (1, 2, Tactics) to Steam and will provide an update when they&#8217;re ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously no mention of other distribution platforms, such as GOG, but this does bode well for such deals to be renewed in future.<\/p>\n<p>Are you the one gamer on the planet who still hasn&#8217;t played the original Fallout? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61223-cyber-attack-takes-down-steam-origin-services.html\">Cyber-attack takes down Steam, Origin services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61212-steam-download-stats-for-sa.html\">Steam download stats for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61211-marvel-games-disappear-from-digital-stores.html\">Marvel games disappear from digital stores<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda is working to bring the Fallout franchise back to Steam, but no mention of other services yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":60995,"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":[165,1593,559,21,85],"class_list":["post-61225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bethesda","tag-fallout","tag-gog-com","tag-headline","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61225","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}