'Fallout 4' Release Rumors: Reddit User Slammed for Fake Info, 'Fallout 3' Save Transfer Feature Not True

When Bethesda released the official "Fallout 4" trailer on Wednesday, it apparently ended all the speculations about the game. However, new rumors have surfaced a day after the release, which Kotaku apparently branded as "fake."

Kotaku slammed a Reddit user named Sandra Reed for instigating a rumor that she leaked the "Fallout 4" documents to Kotaku, a claim vehemently denied by the company. Kotaku quoted Reed's supposed intel on the game this month, which said, "In 'Fallout 4,' mixing things up, we are making the game more 'Story Based' and the player character will finally talk, and narrate his storyline."

Kotaku claims that Sandra Reed has sourced all the information from their earlier report on "Fallout 4" leaked casting documents. "Over the past 24 hours, fans have pointed out that Sandra Reed got some details correct - like the Boston setting and the voiced player-character - but what some haven't seemed to realize is that those details originated from Kotaku months earlier. Almost all of the correct information from Sandra Reed's post came from our leaked casting documents, including the Boston setting," Jason Schreier from Kotaku said.

Schreier said that some of the "Fallout 4" details leaked by Reed such as the fact that the lead character speaks in the video game as well as other info were all reported by Kotaku months ahead of Reed's post in Reddit.

Reed, who said that she was a former employee of Bethesda, even claimed in her Reddit post that she actually leaked the first "Fallout 4" details by accident to Kotaku. Schreier, however, confirmed that such claim is untrue.

"We can definitively say this part isn't true. The only 'Fallout 4' leak we posted revolved around a set of casting documents we received in 2013, two of which we posted on Kotaku. Those documents did not come from anyone at Bethesda Game Studios. Nobody named Sandra Reed has leaked anything to us or to anyone else who shared any information with us," said Schreier.

In related news, Kotaku claims that a Reddit post which says that "Fallout 4" will have a last-gen version with a "Fallout 3" save transfer feature is untrue. Kotaku dispels these rumors as pure "nonsense" and stressed that Bethesda is pushing only for the current-gen in its video games.

It was reportedly in December 2013 when leaked documents revealed that "Fallout 4" will be set in Boston. What appears to be a rumor has turned out to be real after all when the "Fallout 4" trailer was released this week.

Bethesda has confirmed earlier via an IGN report that "Fallout 4" will be available on PS4, Xbox One and PC, and game fanatics can place a pre-order on Amazon as release date will be released soon. With the release of the trailer, it is certain now "Fallout 4" was set entirely in Boston.

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