UPDATED 10:25 EDT / AUGUST 13 2015

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Leaked Fallout 4 gameplay footage loses its last refuge on Pornhub

Fallout fans are desperate for any details they can find on Bethesda Game Studios’ next entry into the series, Fallout 4. The studio successfully showed nearly 10 minutes of gameplay footage at this year’s Quakecon without any of the attendees shakily recording the screen with their crappy smartphone cameras, but they were not so lucky at Gamescom 2015 in Germany, where one fan recorded a potato quality video of the Fallout footage and posted it online shortly afterward.

Bethesda was quick to issue DMCA takedown notices for every site hosting the footage, and sites like YouTube pulled down dozens of copies of the leaked video. For several days, however, there was one final holdout where fans could still watch the footage: Pornhub.

While the popular porn video site was able to keep it up longer than anyone else, it too eventually surrendered to Bethesda’s demands, but not until a few thousand people had already watched the shaky, poorly recorded video surrounded by ads for… enlargement.

Considering the fact that Gamescom saw a record attendance rate of over 345,000 people this year, it is hard to believe Bethesda did not expect someone in the audience to record the video, and with the horrific quality of the video making the rounds across the internet right now, the studio would be smart to release an official high quality version of the game footage. Similar moves have been made by other game developers and film studios, including the recent release of the Suicide Squad trailer, which had leaked in poor quality from this year’s San Diego Comic Con.

One reason Bethesda may have held off this long before releasing it is, as fans have already been saying since the leak, the footage is not all that exciting. Sure, there are a few “Holy crap!” moments, but for the most part the gameplay shown in the video could easily be confused for an HD remaster of Fallout 3.

Of course, the video barely touched on some of the new features and changes made that differentiate Fallout 4 from its predecessor, such as a voiced player character, a revamped perk system, a fully craftable town and customizable arsenal, and so on. Then again, at this point Bethesda could kick a puppy and burn the American flag and fans would still turn out in droves to buy Fallout 4.

As long as they don’t do something truly evil, like introduce paid mods.

Screenshot via Pornhub

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