Fallout game series pulls 500 million users, Microsoft CEO tells investors

Microsoft is still crediting Amazon Prime Video’s Emmy-nominated Fallout adaptation with driving a wave of interest to the role-playing game series. In a quarterly call with investors on Tuesday, chief executive Satya Nadella cited internal metrics saying the whole series (spanning a wave of releases going back to 2008) has more than 500 million monthly active users across all devices and platforms.

That’s impressive, but it does need a little context. Fallout 76, launched 2018, is the ongoing...