{"id":90512,"date":"2026-10-02T04:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90512"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:42:44","slug":"person-behind-viral-ai-generated-fallout-new-york-game-hauls-it-offline-says-bethesda-issued-cease-and-desist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90512","title":{"rendered":"Person Behind Viral AI-Generated Fallout: New York Game Hauls It Offline, Says Bethesda Issued Cease and Desist"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>The person behind a viral AI-generated Fallout: New York game has pulled it offline after receiving a cease and desist from Bethesda.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a self-styled \u201cAI creative\u201d known as \u201cCHRIS FIRST\u201d on X \/ Twitter published a video of Fallout: New York, a game built by Claude Opus 5.5 and made playable in a browser. It included quests, companions, dialogue trees, Fallout\u2019s iconic V.A.T.S. combat and even a working Pip-Boy.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fallout: New York, a full Fallout game you play in your browser, built with Claude Opus 5.5.<\/p>\n<p>Quests. Dialogue trees. V.A.T.S. A working Pip-Boy.<\/p>\n<p>Zero texture files. Zero sound files. Every building, weapon, face and sound is generated by code. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/58Vls0mOYx\">pic.twitter.com\/58Vls0mOYx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CHRIS FIRST (@chrisfirst) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chrisfirst\/status\/2104644598626934858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The initial video, viewed 3.5 million times on X \/ Twitter, sparked a debate about the rights and wrongs of CHRIS FIRST\u2019s use of AI, with some calling the game AI slop, and others impressed by the gameplay. As you\u2019d expect, many responded to the video to predict that Bethesda would eventually step in, although CHRIS FIRST seemed somewhat naive to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all free and I make 0 money on it,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cI hope they don\u2019t ask me to take it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person behind a viral AI-generated Fallout: New York game has pulled it offline after receiving a cease and desist from Bethesda. Earlier this week, a self-styled \u201cAI creative\u201d known as \u201cCHRIS FIRST\u201d on X \/ Twitter published a video of Fallout: New York, a game built by Claude Opus 5.5 and made playable in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":90514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90516,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90512\/revisions\/90516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}