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Original ‘Fallout’ writer and game designer Scott Bennie has died
Fallout game and designed Interplay‘s adaptation of The Lord Of The Rings, has died.As reported by PC Gamer, the game developer died at the age of 61 due to pneumonia complications.A writer on the original Fallout while at Interplay, Bennie also wrote for Star Trek games like Starfleet Academy, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, and Starfleet Command. He also wrote for Castles 2: Siege and Conquest, as well as produced and designed Interplay’s The Lord of the Rings.Bennie is also the one who named Fallout’s Dogmeat, though in an interview with Steemit in 2017 the writer was very modest about his work on the famous computer RPG.
