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Hello there. You might be aware that, following the arrival of Amazon’s Fallout TV show<\/a> lots of people have been, well, playing Fallout games<\/a>. It’s a trend that’s been pushing modding sites into new territory<\/a> when it comes to serving folks ways to spice up their favorite Fallout, and now Bethesda’s casually revealed some of the actual player numbers involved.<\/p>\n

It’s important to note that – while hype for the second season of Amazon’s Fallout is already building<\/a> – Fallout 4’s<\/a> next-gen update hasn’t even dropped quite yet<\/a>. So, there’s probably a chance the numbers I’m about to chuck at your face have a chance to climb at least a little bit further soon.<\/p>\n

In a couple of tweets form the offical Fallout account, Bethesda revealed that “almost five million” players were recorded in total across all of the titles in the Fallout series during a single day recently. To put that in context, that’s almost a million more people than the entire estimated population of Croatia as of 2022 – which was just over 3.8 million – playing the likes of Fallout 4, New Vegas, and probably like five people playing Fallout: Tactics.<\/p>\n

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Hello there. You might be aware that, following the arrival of Amazon’s Fallout TV show lots of people have been, well, playing Fallout games. It’s a trend that’s been pushing modding sites into new territory when it comes to serving folks ways to spice up their favorite Fallout, and now Bethesda’s casually revealed some of the actual player numbers involved. It’s important to note that – while hype for the second season of Amazon’s Fallout is already building – Fallout 4’s next-gen update hasn’t even dropped quite yet. So, there’s probably a chance the numbers I’m about to chuck at your face have a chance to climb at least a little bit further soon. In a couple of tweets form the offical Fallout account, Bethesda…<\/p>\n

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