If you’ve only heard about the Fallout franchise because of the 2024 TV series on Amazon Video, my first-ever articles for the New York Times can help you connect the dots on how the series came to be on PCs and gaming consoles–and what to know about the games before watching the TV show. Enjoy!

I wrote about Fallout here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/fallout-game-show.html

And I talked about Fallout in a really cool 10-minute mini-podcast explainer: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/podcasts/what-to-know-before-you-watch-fallout.html