{"id":902648,"date":"2026-04-30T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/xbox-studio-accidentally-gave-away-the-rpg-that-led-to-og-fallout-for-free-so-now-its-giving-everyone-a-way-to-play-it-legitimately\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:12:15","slug":"xbox-studio-accidentally-gave-away-the-rpg-that-led-to-og-fallout-for-free-so-now-its-giving-everyone-a-way-to-play-it-legitimately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/xbox-studio-accidentally-gave-away-the-rpg-that-led-to-og-fallout-for-free-so-now-its-giving-everyone-a-way-to-play-it-legitimately\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox studio accidentally gave away the RPG that led to OG Fallout for free, so now it&#8217;s giving everyone a way to play it legitimately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-2c15dcf8-d5d8-4092-8b4e-c9ed608f1795\">An Xbox developer made a big whoopsie and accidentally gave players a free (but broken) version of the game that led to OG Fallout, but rather than snatching the lucky (but, again, botched) freebie away from gamers, the studio is simply giving people a way to play it properly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A couple weeks ago an error made Wasteland Remastered free on the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/tag\/microsoft\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/tag\/microsoft\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/tag\/microsoft\/\">Microsoft<\/a>\/Xbox Store, but what people snagged before we fixed the glitch can&#8217;t actually be played,&#8221; developer inXile Entertainment <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/inXile\/status\/2049519082693886177\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/inXile\/status\/2049519082693886177\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">writes <\/a>on social media. &#8220;So, we&#8217;re giving them one that can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-zKcw9LwvBhWuWbCHThVrok\">\n<section>\n<p>Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/fallout\/xbox-studio-accidentally-gave-away-the-rpg-that-led-to-og-fallout-for-free-so-now-its-giving-everyone-a-way-to-play-it-legitimately\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Anthony Schildgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Xbox developer made a big whoopsie and accidentally gave players a free (but broken) version of the game that led to OG Fallout, but rather than snatching the lucky (but, again, botched) freebie away from gamers, the studio is simply giving people a way to play it properly. &#8220;A couple weeks ago an error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22953,1798,22626],"tags":[5313,6347],"class_list":{"0":"post-902648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accidentally","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-studio","10":"tag-accidentally","11":"tag-studio"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}