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Fallout 76 fan nukes Phil Spencer’s in-game camp after Xbox layoffs-Kenneth Andersen-Entertainment – Metro
The camp of Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been nuked in Fallout 76, by a fan who appears to be upset about recent layoffs at Bethesda studios.
Phil Spencer might be feeling the heat (YouTube)
The camp of Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been nuked in Fallout 76, by a fan who appears to be upset about recent layoffs at Bethesda studios.
It’s hard to know what response Xbox expected, at the news that they’re shutting down Bethesda studios Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Alpha Dog Games, but it’s likely that the fan response has been a lot angrier than they anticipated.
It’s beginning to seem as if the only thing they’re interested in from Bethesda, which they paid $7.5 billion for, is The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, especially after the TV series gave new life to older titles such as Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.
Even Fallout fans aren’t happy about that though and so one angry Fallout 76 player decided to nuke the camp of Xbox Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, to much approval from everyone else.
An image went viral on Twitter, showing a nuclear blast radius on a Fallout 76 map with a vendor owned by P3 in the middle – the in-game handle of Spencer.
It didn’t take long for the culprit to appear, who brazenly admitted to their deed in the comments saying, ‘Guilty,’ and adding a video of the nuclear wasteland post-explosion and a separate image of Spencer’s character.
Commentators on social media found it very funny, with Azza saying: ‘Rumour has it the nuke was named Tango [as in Tango Gameworks].’
Another fan, RC Polygons, even tagged Spencer on Twitter, saying: ‘Please Phil, don’t shut down Bethesda Game Studios because of this.’
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The fan didn’t say why they nuked Spencer’s camp, but others have quickly assumed that it’s a form of vengeance after the recent layoffs.
Obtaining the materials and launching a nuclear missile takes a good chunk of work too, so the player must really have wanted Spencer to feel the heat. Although given everything that’s going on at the moment, Spencer probably hasn’t got much time to play the game right now.
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