Fallout 4 is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fourth main game in the Fallout series and was released worldwide on November 10, 2015, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. The game is set within an open world post-apocalyptic environment that encompasses the city of Boston and the surrounding Massachusetts region known as “The Commonwealth”. It makes use of a number of local landmarks, including Bunker Hill, Fort Independence, and Old North Bridge near Concord, as the bridge out of Sanctuary Hills. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
McCready, Samuel. “Playing the past and alternative futures: Counterfactual history in Fallout 4.” Loading 12, no. 20 (2019): 15-34.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Dixon, Daniel H. 2024. Introducing the Single Player Offline Game Corpus (SPOC): A corpus of seven registers from digital role-playing games. Corpora 19(1).
Gowler, Chad Phoenix Rose, and Ioanna Iacovides. “” Horror, guilt and shame”–Uncomfortable Experiences in Digital Games.” In Proceedings of the annual symposium on computer-human interaction in play, pp. 325-337. 2019.
Stein, Simon David. “Space Rednecks, Robot Butlers, and Feline Foreigners: Language Attitudes Toward Varieties of English in Videogames.” Games and Culture (2023): 15554120221150156.
Other games in the franchise
Fallout 3 (6)
Fallout 4 (4)