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Bethesda has announced Fallout Legacy, a bundle compiling the definitive editions of all the mainline Fallout games. The only catch is that it’s coming to the UK and Germany only.

Legacy contains Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition, and Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition. One notable exclusion, however, is the most recent game in the series, Fallout 76.

The PC-only collection launches on October 25, but Bethesda did not offer any explanation as to why it’s only coming to the UK and Germany. A previous bundle, titled Fallout Anthology, contained many of the above games but excluded Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition.

A price has not been announced for the latest collection, but it was leaked by Amazon Germany before its reveal with the price of €40.

The mainline Fallout series has enjoyed critical acclaim. Our verdict on the most recent mainline title awarded it a 9/10. “In the grand scheme of things, Fallout 4’s minor issues pale in comparison to its successes,” wrote Peter Brown. “When you put the controller down, you think about the friend you betrayed to benefit another, the shifting tide of an incredible battle, or the moment you opened a drawer and found someone’s discarded effects, making you wonder how they felt before the bombs fell. In moments like these, Fallout 4 can be an intoxicating experience. You’re often forced to sacrifice something–a relationship, a lucrative opportunity, or your health–to make gains elsewhere. And the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more you wonder: what if I chose a different path? You second guess yourself, not just because you had other options, but because you aren’t sure if you did the right thing. The fact that your decisions stick with you after walking away from the game is a testament to the great storytelling on hand. Fallout 4 is an argument for substance over style, and an excellent addition to the revered open-world series.” Read more in our full Fallout 4 review.

This might be the first episode of New Releases containing zero full-priced games, so your wallet won’t hurt as much if you decide to pick up a few of this week’s big games. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible lair is mixing things up with a different style of gameplay, while Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is a return to form for the series. Killer Queen Black is a revamped version of the arcade cult classic, and Indivisible is combining action-RPG mechanics with platforming. Meanwhile, PS4 gets an exclusive this week with Concrete Genie.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair — October 8

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch

2017’s Yooka-Laylee was a 3D platformer inspired by the Banjo-Kazooie series, featuring many of the same developers. The sequel, however, is more like Donkey Kong Country, with 2.5D levels to conquer. They’re all connected by an overworld with its own set of puzzles to solve and secrets to uncover.

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Concrete Genie — October 8

Available on: PS4

Concrete Genie sees you playing as Ash, a young boy whose town has been taken over by a force called the Darkness. To take it back, you’ll use your graffiti skills to create artsy monsters that actually come to life as “genies.” You can also freely paint to your heart’s content in PlayStation VR.

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Indivisible — October 8

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch

Indivisible might remind you of Skullgirls, and that’s because it’s made by the same team, using its signature hand-drawn art. The world of Indivisible is inspired by multiple cultures and mythologies, and it combines platforming with strategic RPG battles. How you arrange your party is key to winning each fight.

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Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince — October 8

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch

Trine 3 took the series into a full 3D world, but the fourth game is a return to 2.5D form. Pontius the Knight, Amadeus the Wizard, and Zoya the Thief are back, each with new skill trees full of special abilities. You’ll have to use them all to solve puzzles, fight bosses, and complete each stage. You can play through them solo or with friends in co-op.

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Killer Queen Black — October 11

Available on: PC, Switch

This is the home version of the arcade cult classic, where two teams compete for victory in one of three ways. You can win by collecting enough berries, riding the snail to the goal, or killing the enemy queen enough times. For the first time, you can take the competition online.

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October has more video games on the way. Next week, New Releases will take a look at The Witcher 3 and Overwatch on Switch, plus the return of an old favorite with Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville.

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In episode three of True Fiction, we’re delving into the realm of dreams and nightmares to look at the origins of a beloved horror movie franchise: Nightmare on Elm Street. The series introduced Freddy Kruger–now an iconic horror movie villain–into pop culture, but the birth of the character–and the horrors he inflicted–are rooted in tragedies that occurred in the real world.

As you can imagine, exploring the subject matter that inspired the movie series and charting its transformation into a pop culture entertainment is tricky. And that’s what host and writer Kurt Indovina discusses below. You can check out True Fiction episode three below and on the GameSpot Universe YouTube channel, where new episodes will be released every Sunday.

Kurt: While making True Fiction I was faced with a lot of challenges I hadn’t dealt with in previous projects. Challenges like, ‘How do I tell the history of hundreds of Hmong refugees who escaped a mass genocide after the crippling end of the Vietnam War only to die in their sleep after thinking they had finally reached salvation’ in a way that is respectful, but also entertaining, fun, and charming viewing experience for you.

Sure, movies aren’t real–Freddy Krueger, Godzilla, and Twin Peaks are, to us, just things of make-believe. But as I peeled back the layers, and found their inspirations, the results are, well, not the most uplifting stories.

So for this episode, I wanted to push the team to tell this miserably sad real story in the most captivating and cinematic way possible. A way that was tasteful to the real history, while also paying homage to the movie it inspired.

But along with those ambitions came other challenges that I, again, hadn’t been graced with before. One being our filming location. To match the Nightmare on Elm Street vibe, we wanted a boiler room–something gross, dark, and scary. And oh, did we find the right place. In the basement of an old abandoned restaurant was a maze of concrete halls, dark corners, and yes, a massive and rusty boiler room.

It was exactly what we wanted–maybe too much so. Covering the concrete floors were dozens, if not hundreds of dead cockroaches and indistinguishable liquids. There’s one particular shot where the camera follows me down a corridor while I sporadically move my eyebrows around my forehead and deliver my lines. But beneath my feet, with every step, I felt and heard the crunch of cockroaches being crushed under the soles of my shoes. It was vile and remains the most vivid sensation from the shoot. And the best part is that we did that take over and over again, and every time stepping all over crushed cockroaches.

Also, our producer Adam Mason (bless his heart), endured an eye injury when a spec of an unknown substance fell from the ceiling and directly into his eye, putting him out of commission for several hours. Oh, and on the second day of shooting, when we filmed in a hotel room fit to look like a sleeping clinic, we set the fire alarm off by using too much smoke from a fog machine. (Frankly, I ignorantly didn’t believe that’d set it off. But, now I know: don’t use a fog machine in hotel rooms–you’ll cause a great panic.)

At the end of it all, I’m very proud of this episode. And despite the dark source material, I think we managed to fulfill the expectation of making something fun and engaging to watch.