Prime’s Fallout TV series has been a hit for the streaming juggernaut and among diehard fans as well. There’s one question that has caused some debate and it has fans trying to estimate the in-game character level Lucy (Ella Purnell) might have reached by the end of Season 1.

There will be Fallout TV spoilers below, so a warning if you haven’t finished or even started the show yet.

Okay, let’s dive into this XP math!

In the first episodes, we see Lucy living inside Vault 33 with her father and brother. She has an active life helping with teaching and sports, but she is soon removed from everything she’s known from the community and world of the vaults and has to venture to the surface.

However, on her adventure, Lucy doesn’t get physical and relies more on her intelligence to get out of sticky situations. Yeah, she shoots some Radroaches off Maximus, but those are 2 XP on Normal settings for the game. If Lucy leveled up in the same way that the characters in the video games do, she probably wouldn’t be very high.

Even looking at her S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats that Bethesda revealed in the Fallout Shelter version of the character, Lucy isn’t really made for combat and probably needs a slight adjustment on her agility with all the stunts she pulls off and charisma because of how she gets out of more than a few situations.

• Strength 4
• Perception 7
• Endurance 6
• Charisma 5
• Intelligence 6
• Agility 5
• Luck 7

Now some fans say Lucy could be “anywhere from level 12 to 17”, but the majority seem to feel she would likely be less than that, and probably under level 10 because of the “side-quests” she does.

“Let’s be real, she has one kill and only one turn in,” Twitter user SynthSpence explained. “Her game progress is maybe four hrs long? That sounds about right in terms of gameplay. Season 2, she will pick up more XP for it. Till then, lowbie for sure.”

There’s even a debate about Lucy living through using the equivalent of a Survival Mode, because of how easily enemies went down with her basic 10mm pistol. Fallout hasn’t been renewed yet for Season 2 just yet, but it could be a short matter of time before we get that greenlight.

The popularity of Prime Video’s Fallout TV series is seemingly driving people back to the Fallout games, and one title in particular, Fallout 76, just reached its highest player count ever on Steam. If you’re enjoying the Fallout TV show and interested in Fallout 76, you might be wondering what shape the game is in and how it plays in 2024, given it first released all the way back in 2018.

As you may recall, Fallout 76 had a rocky launch all those years ago, and longtime Fallout fans felt like they got something that didn’t live up to Fallout’s legacy. Bethesda owned up to the game’s issues and shortcomings, and since then has steadily supported the online multiplayer game with more than a dozen major updates, the latest being the Atlantic City update in March.

Fallout 76 has reached more than 17 million people to become one of Bethesda’s most popular games ever. With all of this in mind, GameSpot’s Dave Klein jumped into the world of Fallout 76 for the first time to see if the game is worth playing for someone new to the series. Check out the video below to see a newcomer’s take on the game and get a glimpse at how far the game has come since it was originally released in 2018.

If Fallout 76 doesn’t seem interesting to you, Bethesda is also working on Fallout 5, but it’s not going to be released until after The Elder Scrolls VI.

If you do decide to visit the Fallout 76 wasteland, the game just recently added content based on the show. Fallout Shelter players on mobile can grab content themed around the TV series, too. Additionally, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are free right now for Prime subscribers through Luna and Fallout 4’s long-awaited PS5/Xbox Series X|S update is finally coming soon.

For more, check out GameSpot’s Fallout TV show review and see what other critics think. All eight episodes in Season 1 are streaming now on Prime Video. You can also grab a bunch of free Fallout games on Prime Gaming right now.

A new build-your-own-bundle deal is live on Fanatical, giving you the opportunity to snag as many as 10 games for as low as $0.50 each. The Build Your Own Wonder Bundle is led off by Oddworld: Soulstorm, with a selection that runs the gamut from zombie-fight tower defense to Metal Gear-like stealth. The bundle lets you mix-and-match your selections, and the more games you throw in your bundle, the bigger your discount. Buying one game will run you $1, while you can grab five games for $3 and 10 games for $5.

Fanatical Build Your Own Wonder Bundle

• Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
• Monorail Stories
• Valfaris
• Lawnmowing Simulator
• Whispering Willows
• Undetected
• Wordle
• Karma City Police
• Space Rangers HD: A War Apart
• From Space
• Blood and Zombies
• Monster Slayers – Complete Edition
• Pumped BMX Pro
• Unity of Command – Trilogy Bundle
• 12 is Better Than 6
• A Tale of Paper: Refolded Edition
• Dreamscaper (sold out)
• Rico London (sold out)
• You Suck at Parking – Complete Edition (sold out)
• Iron Fisticle (sold out)
• Golden Light (sold out)

Oddworld: Soulstorm is a highlight, bringing 2.5D platforming in the storied Oddworld franchise. A re-imagining of 1998’s Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus and a sequel to 2014’s Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, it’s a great-looking update of an old-school platformer that captures the feel of the way these games once were.

Speaking of old-school, there’s also Undetected, an homage to the top-down stealth of the Metal Gear series. Undetected mixes in some modern improvements, like first-person shooting, making it feel a whole lot like a modern Metal Gear Solid 2. It also has a hardcore difficulty mode for when you really want to push your sneaking mission capabilities.

The Build Your Own Wonder Bundle doesn’t stick with any specific kind of game, though. You can get anything from Blood and Zombies, a tower defense-slash-first-person shooter hybrid set in the zombie apocalypse, or Lawn Mowing Simulator, which captures the zen of, uh, mowing lawns. See the complete list of games offered above, and for more deals, check out Fanatical’s Steam Deck-focused Play-On-the-Go Spring Edition bundle and Woot’s month-long games sale.

Disclosure: Fanatical and GameSpot are both owned by Fandom.

Despite the game’s launch feeling like yesterday, Pokemon Go is approaching its eighth anniversary this July. In anticipation of the milestone, Niantic has announced the “Rediscover Go” campaign, which is a major overhaul of the game as we know it today.

The official Pokemon Go website gives a few details on what the Rediscover Go update will entail, including changes to the map, customization options, and the Snapshot function. A brief trailer also highlights changes with scenes at a beach, in a forest, and more.

The website promises a “fresh new look with updates to the in-game map, encounter screens, battle screens, and more–all tailored to your location” as part of this new update. More information will be spread out over the next three weeks, with the next update due April 17.

The Snapshot feature will also allow you to take pictures of up to three Pokemon at a time, while the avatar customization menu and the Style Shop will provide “more options than ever before.” Two other tabs–“Rediscover Kanto” and “Rediscover Your Reality”–are also included, though no other information has been revealed for them.

The schedule of reveals for Rediscover Go is as follows:

• Rediscover Yourself – April 17
• Rediscover Your World – April 22
• Rediscover Kanto – April 22
• Rediscover Your Reality – May 7

Pokemon Go is available now for iOS and Android devices.

Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was released in 2021 and made more than $400 million at the box office, but there has been no word yet on a sequel or if any characters from the film could cross over into other Marvel projects. Shang-Chi star Simu Liu has now provided an exciting update for people who want to see more of the series.

Posting on Threads, Liu responded to someone who expressed their dismay with Marvel’s lack of output for Shang-Chi following the movie’s release years ago. This person said it’s frustrating that Marvel hasn’t announced a sequel or discussed the possibility of Shang-Chi showing up in other Marvel films. Liu himself responded, saying, “I proooomise it’s happening.”

This statement doesn’t specify if he’s talking about a Shang-Chi sequel or some other extension of the series and character, but it’s an exciting update in any event for fans of the series.

Prior to Shang-Chi’s release, former Disney CEO Bob Chapek said the film was an “interesting experiment” as it relates to its release model because it was launching in theaters exclusively instead of debuting simultaneously on Disney+ as some of Disney’s other films did during the pandemic. Liu took exception to Chapek using the “experiment” verbiage, and Marvel’s Kevin Feige later weighed in on what he called a “misunderstanding.”

Shang-Chi released theatrically in September 2021 and made $75 million for its opening weekend and went on to bank $432 million worldwide during its run. It’s now streaming on Disney+, alongside Marvel’s extensive catalog of other films.

In addition to Liu, Shang-Chi starred Awkwafina, Michelle Yeoh, Ben Kingsley, and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The film was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. He’s lined up to direct the upcoming Naruto film, and many are hoping he would come back for Shang-Chi 2, if it happens.

What happens when you combine a fitness game series with one of the greatest action manga of all time? You get Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star, an exercise game for Nintendo Switch where you’ll throw hands under the tutelage of magical martial arts masters. Since launch last year, Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star’s price has remained steady at $50, but right now you can get it for $40 at Amazon and Best Buy.

As you’d imagine, this Fitness Boxing spin-off puts a wasteland coat of paint on its design as Kenshiro puts you through your paces. Will it teach you his explosive-tickling attacks? Not at all, but for those days when you’re looking to blow off some steam with a flurry of punches, this game provides a nice outlet for you.

Of course, a Fist of the North Star video game isn’t enough, and for more of the manga series that can best be described as Mad Max meets Saw on steroids, you can also grab several manga and Blu-ray releases for less than retail price.

For the original manga, most of the stories have been reprinted in a range of hardcover editions. These large-scale reprints run about 300 pages each and have a uniform appearance that will make them look great next to each other on your shelf. You can pick them up individually, or you can save some cash and buy several of them in a single bundle. Currently, the first seven Fist of the North Star volumes are priced at $112 (normally $140).

Fist of the North Star hardcover manga volumes

In the anime department, several special-edition versions of the anime series and film adaptations are also on sale. The first anime TV adaptation is available for $82 (normally $90) and you can use the coupon codes on Amazon to get Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria and Toki and Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Raoh for $20 each.

Fist of the North Star Blu-rays

Sometimes, a meme is such a perfect fit for another piece of media that its creators can’t help but bring the two together. Bandai Namco is the latest to seize the moment, as a new trailer for the upcoming Sand Land has implemented a very popular dance tune–with a very fitting name–from the late 1990s.

The trailer shows Beelzebub, the pink devil-like hero of the game, as he fights monsters and giant bugs both with his bare hands and with custom-made vehicles. The background music is Sandstorm, the popular trance song released by Finnish DJ Darude in late 1999.

Sandstorm was the first single released from Darude’s album Before The Storm, which was first released in Finland in 1999 before hitting shelves in the US in September 2000. The single reached platinum status–which means it sold over 1 million copies–in the US.

The song has since become an inside joke on streaming services like Twitch, in which any streamer asking what background music they should use would immediately be answered with “Darude – Sandstorm.” For April Fools’ Day in 2015, YouTube answered any music-related search with “Did you mean Darude – Sandstorm By Darude” to play off of this joke.

Sand Land is an action-RPG adaptation of a manga series of the same name by the late Akira Toriyama, which appeared in Shonen Jump Magazine in the year 2000. The game follows the aforementioned Beelzebub and Rao as they set off using vehicles, unique fighting skills, and more in order to find new sources of water in a vast desert.

Sand Land launches April 26 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. A demo is available now.

Similar to its PS4 strategy, a PS5 Pro is reported to be in development and arriving soon. According to The Verge, the rumored specs for this console will see it ship with a more powerful GPU and a slightly faster CPU mode, and Sony is reportedly encouraging developers to apply more ray tracing features in their games so that they can earn a PS5 Pro enhanced label.

The system will be equipped with more and faster memory, alongside improved GPU rendering said to be “about 45% faster” than a standard PS5, according to the full list of specs in developer papers for the PS5 Pro that The Verge has seen. Overall, it’s reported that the PS5 Pro will have a significantly improved GPU, and while the CPU will be the same as the standard PS5, it’ll benefit from a new mode that targets a higher 3.85GHz CPU frequency for around a 10% improvement. It’s also worth noting here that the papers list a “standard mode” at 3.5GHz or a “high CPU frequency mode” at 3.85GHz for developers to take advantage of.

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