Steam Gamers Can Officially Grab A 10/10 Masterpiece Open-World Game Free For Limited Time
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Steam is home to a huge amount of free games, but they're not always worth your time. And with heavy hitters like Ocarina of Time, and GTA 6 releasing this month, your dance card is probably full. However, in a rare treat, Steam gamers can soon get their hands on a truly generational 10/10 RPG for the low cost of nothing at all. And even if you don't play it right away, it's a freebie you shouldn't miss.
PC gamers will soon be able to get their hands on Fallout: New Vegas completely free. This might not seem like the biggest deal, given the game is already available with Xbox Game Pass and frequently goes on sale for less than the price of a cup of coffee, but it's an incredible open-world RPG being given away for free. It also happens to be the best Fallout game, depending on who you ask.
Starting December 2, the Lenovo Legion Gaming Community will be giving away free Steam keys for Fallout: New Vegas. To claim it, all you need to do is follow these steps:
- Create a free Lenovo Legion Community account
- Connect a verified Twitch account to it
- Visit Lenovo's official giveaway page for Fallout: New Vegas
- Join the queue on December 2 at 12:00 PM ET
- Claim the free voucher and redeem it on Gamesplanet to get a Steam key
- Redeem the key on Steam to add Fallout: New Vegas to your library
If that sounds like too much hassle, and you can just afford the $9.99 it costs when it's not even on sale, maybe just go buy it. It's also worth noting there are a finite number of keys, so you're not guaranteed one. Still, if you're dead-set on getting a great game for nothing, you'll want to mark your calendar for December 2.
It's an interesting time to be a Fallout fan, with Fallout 5 finally officially on the very, very distant horizon. As first reported by Windows Central, both The Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 5 will be developed in a new version of Bethesda's proprietary tech, the Creation Engine 3. As Todd Howard explains, this engine has been developed specifically to facilitate their plans with those two games: "When we build these worlds, it starts with the tech. A lot of people think engine, they think rendering, but there's so much more that goes into it from a tool side and a system side. For the kind of worlds that we want to build and also knowing that we were going to be doing Fallout 5, and just how do we do those simultaneously in a way where it's not start and stop. And we're really happy. I can't say enough about our tech team. It's just incredible. Our designers ask for so much crazy stuff, and our tech team finds a way to do it. And I think that's really defined our games where you feel like anything is possible."
An official Fallout: New Vegas remaster is also in development, but it doesn't have an official release date just yet.
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