There is actually a connection between the Squid Game reality show and Fallout Shelter: They're both produced by Studio Lambert, along with Fallout series producer Kilter Films, Amazon MGM Studios, and Bethesda.

Fallout season 2 seems to have less buzz than season 1, so how is that translating into the actual viewership numbers this time?

According to the Nielsen data--which combines multiple seasons in its ranking reports-- 54% of Fallout streaming minutes on Prime Video for the December 15-21 week were from Season 2, making up about 429 million minutes. The rest came from viewership of Season 1.

Prime Video is officially expanding the world of Fallout with a new show based on the iconic video game franchise.

Walton Goggins, star of the Fallout TV series on Prime, has never played Fallout and doesn't want to. You know who else has never played Fallout and doesn't want to? Ron Perlman. In an interview on the Joe Vulpis Podcast last week, Perlman made it clear: He doesn't know, he doesn't care, he just wants his 40 bucks and his sandwich.

The Fallout games were never really about the end of the world—because, as it turns out, nothing ever really ends. Look back at the original entries in the long-running RPG series, published by Interplay in the 1990s: From the very beginning, these games ...