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Another short blog this week. But for those of us eagerly anticipating Fallout 4, today heralded a long-awaited announcement. Today, Bethesda has released the minimum and recommended specs for Fallout 4!

The short version:

Minimum requirement is a decent-but-not-too-fancy computer. Recommended requirements: own Skynet.

More specifically:

Minimum

Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)

Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent

8 GB RAM

30 GB free HDD space

NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent Recommended

Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)

Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent

8 GB RAM

30 GB free HDD space

NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent

I figure most of my fans have been eagerly anticipating the game. And I thought anyone who hasn't seen this yet would appreciate the heads-up. (Myself, I easily beat the minimum requirements, but for smoothest affordable gameplay and graphics I'll be doing a little upgrading to my own computer over the next month.)

In their article covering Bethesda's announcement, IGN goes on to say:

The developer has revealed you'll need between 28GB and 35GB on console depending on where you live and what languages you want the game to support. Additionally, it's been announced Fallout 4 will digitally unlock on November 10, 2015, at 12:00am (local time) in all territories (In North America, the unlock time will be 12:01am EST), except Asia (available at 12am on Tuesday, November 11) and Japan (available at 12am on Thursday, December 17).

Keep in mind that last month Bethesda has also announced that the amount of memory that Fallout 4 will consume will increase over time thanks to updates:

We'll be doing regular free updates to the game, and like Skyrim, these will come with not just fixes, but new features. For Skyrim we added things like mounted combat, legendary mode, kill cams, visual enhancements and more. We’ll work with all of you to figure out what new things you’d love to see added to Fallout 4, whether they are small tweaks or new features.

So the question you should ask yourself is: "My body is ready... but is my PC?"

Meanwhile, enjoy the continuation of Bethesda's videos on what makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L.!

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I'll leave you this week with some music to get excited by!