The same folks are hard at work remaking Van Buren as part of a project dubbed Fallout: The New West

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One of the days last week was October 23rd. It's the date in the Fallout universe when the bombs dropped and has morphed into a time for yearly community happenings plus, in Bethesda's case, usually some marketing. Sometimes, modders behind long-running projects time up standalone releases with it, as has been the case this year with the folks behind Fallout: The New West , the project aiming to make their own version of Black Isle Studios' cancelled third Fallout game. They've released a few guns inspired by the canned entry, which you may know by its codename Van Buren, but the headliner from this gear drop for New Vegas is a funky new Pip-Boy design.

According to its creators, this Lil Pip 3000 iteration of Fallout's iconic wrist-mounted computer has been recreated based on Van Buren's original design docs.…