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Prime Gaming members can get free Fallout 76 on show's premiere date [Update]

To celebrate Prime Video's new Fallout series, Prime Gaming is offering Bethesda's Fallout 76 to members for free.

Ozzie Mejia

April 4, 2024 7:00 AM

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The month of April is looking to be a special one for Amazon, because Prime Video is days away from premiering the first full season of the Fallout television series. This looks like an opportunity for some cross-promotion between Amazon departments, so Prime Gaming announced on Thursday that as part of its April lineup, Amazon Prime members can claim Fallout 76 for free on either PC or Xbox just in time for the show's premiere.

Amazon Prime members can begin claiming their free copy of Fallout 76 starting on Thursday, April 11. That's just in time for the show's bumped-up premiere. It's worth noting that PC users will receive a GOG.com key for the game. Fallout 76 is currently not available via GOG.com, which seems to indicate that a DRM-free version of the game will soon be available from that storefront. [Update: Prime Gaming representatives have since clarified that PC users will receive a Microsoft Store key. The Prime Gaming blog has since been updated to reflect this change.]

That's not all that's coming for Amazon Prime members. Other free titles will be available throughout the month. Many of them will launch through the Amazon Games app, but there are some standouts like Chivalry 2 and Demon's Tilt, which will both be made free through the Epic Games Store. Amazon's Luna service will also add a dozen titles to its lineup, including the full Fortnite foursome of games (Fortnite Battle Royale, LEGO Fortnite, Fortnite Festival, and Rocket Racing).

This is an exciting time for Fallout fans and a free copy of Fallout 76 looks to be icing on the cake. We'll keep watching for more Fallout (both game and TV show) news, so keep it on Shacknews for any updates. If you want more on the latest video game-adjacent pop culture, be sure to tune in to Pop! Goes the Culture! every Thursday on the Shacknews Twitch channel.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?