At last month's E3 conference in Los Angeles, Bethesda Softworks, a company normally focused on high-end titles for consoles and PCs, launched a smartphone game called Fallout Shelter, intended to drum up excitement for the next version of its popular Fallout franchise. In the game, players control their very own nuclear fallout shelter, known as a vault, which resembles a post-apocalyptic ant farm. The cheeky little game was an instant hit.
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The free app brought in $5.1 million in its first two weeks by selling players "lunchboxes" that speed along their progress in the game, according to data released Thursday by market-research firm SuperData. It was the most downloaded iPhone game in the U.S. for most of the days over the next three weeks and was one of the 10 top-grossing games in the country almost every day until last Monday. At some point during its brief run, it was the most downloaded iPhone game in 48 countries and the highest-grossing game in 11. But its early success seems to be ending, as it drops down the charts in terms of both downloads and revenue.
Who is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @11:41AM
you wont even be deafened by atomic explosions because they arent very brizent, that is they arent shocky. Deaths come from the radiation and the overpressure
And just what do you think overpressure is? Sigh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:38PM
I was wondering what "brizent" means, or how something can be un-"shocky" yet with massive overpressure. I still actually don't know what "Brizent" is.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 21 2015, @06:07PM
Sorry I misspelled "brisant".
A brizant detonation produces a shock wave in which the sir molecules move faster than the speed of sound. Overpressure is more like a very strong wind. Hurricanes are destructive but they do not produce shock waves.
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