Bethesda planned to break away from Steam and focus on its own PC games store and launcher a few years back. However, after low sales for Fallout 76, the company shifted its strategy to release new titles on both Bethesda.net and Steam. Now that Bethesda is part of Microsoft, with …
Read More »Bethesda is shutting down its launcher and moving back to Steam
A few years ago, Bethesda started to pull away from Steam, and starting with Fallout 76, the company began testing not releasing games on Steam at all. That swiftly drew backlash and Bethesda ultimately chose to continue supporting Steam alongside its own launcher, but now, the Bethesda Games Launcher will …
Read More »Bethesda accidentally released a Denuvo-free version of Doom Eternal
Denuvo has been the number one choice of DRM for major publishers for quite some time now. Occasionally though, a studio will screw up its implementation and pave the way for swift piracy despite intentions to protect at least the first week of sale. We saw this happen with Mass Effect …
Read More »It looks like Rage 2 will be the next Bethesda game to skip Steam
It is no secret that Bethesda is trying to establish a foothold in the PC market with its own game launcher. Previously, most Bethesda games would launch on both Steam and Bethesda.net but that has started to change. Fallout 76 was the first game to skip Steam on PC and …
Read More »Fallout 76 beta players are unable to uninstall the game
The Fallout 76 beta is over and at this point, most players will have a good idea of whether or not they want to buy the game at launch. Unfortunately for those who have decided against keeping their pre-orders, a bug in the Bethesda.net launcher is stopping players from uninstalling …
Read More »Bethesda now requires a Steam account to upload Fallout 4 console mods
Bethesda set out to bring mods to consoles with Fallout 4 and earlier this year, the console mod system launched. Unfortunately though, people have been abusing the system and re-uploading other people's creations from Nexus Mods to Bethesda Net without permission and it has caused quite a stir, to the …
Read More »Bethesda should be ready to talk about Fallout 4 mod tools ‘soon’
Back in November, Bethesda launched Fallout 4 and while many people on the PC side have already made decent mods, we are still waiting on Bethesda to release its official tools, which are due out early this year. Fortunately, it sounds like Bethesda might be ready to talk about Fallout …
Read More »Fallout 4 PC mods will also be playable on PS4 eventually
Earlier this week at E3, Bethesda's Todd Howard appeared on Microsoft's stage to announce that PC mods for Fallout 4 would be playable on the Xbox One. At the time it seemed like the PS4 has been completely cut out of the equation but it seems that is not the …
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