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A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning"

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"I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of"
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A game tester used "professional stupidity" to test Fallout 4 and the limits of Xbox as far as possible. This resulted in a number of concerned emails. How did the tester destroy Fallout 4? The founder of Pedalboard Games Colin McInerney was working as a game tester at Bethesda before his current position during his studies. Here he was responsible for testing Fallout 4's capacity in quality assurance. One day he overloaded the memory of the gam…

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gamesradar broke the news in on Saturday, March 14, 2026.
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