Todd Howard Reassures Fallout Fans as Fallout Day 2025 Ends Without a Brand New Game Reveal: 'Just Know We Are Working on Even More'

Fallout Day 2025 has travel to an extremity without the announcement of immoderate caller Fallout video games. Yes, there’s a caller mentation of Fallout 4, a caller Fallout: New Vegas bundle, and caller contented for Fallout Shelter and Fallout 76. But determination was nary connection connected immoderate Fallout remasters, which immoderate had hoped for, oregon — little apt — Fallout 5.

At the extremity of the Fallout Day broadcast, Bethesda plan main Todd Howard acknowledged that Fallout fans were astir apt near a small disappointed by this, and promised that the developer is moving connected “even more” Fallout. What that means precisely is anyone’s guess, but Howard did accidental Bethesda is looking guardant to showing fans what it’s cooking.

Todd Howard introduces Fallout 76 during the Microsoft Xbox E3 briefing successful 2018. Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images.

Here’s the punctuation from Todd Howard:

Even though I americium signaling this — it’s not unrecorded — and I’m astir apt watching myself close present from my table and I’m speechmaking your chat and these… that happening you privation and this different happening you want… Hey, we work it all. Just cognize we are moving connected adjacent more. We are looking guardant to the time erstwhile we tin stock that with everybody.

Ahead of Fallout Day, Hollywood prima Danny Trejo, who played Raul Alfonso Tejada, a Ghoul companion, successful the much-loved Fallout: New Vegas, called connected Bethesda to remaster the game. It’s a sentiment shared by galore Fallout fans, particularly fixed the surge successful involvement pursuing the breakout Fallout TV show, which heads to New Vegas for Season 2 successful December.

Indeed, determination are each sorts of rumors floating astir astir imaginable Fallout remakes present that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is retired the doorway (Fallout 3 Remastered was leaked backmost successful 2023, but those plans whitethorn person changed). And we cognize Bethesda wants to yet get to Fallout 5, albeit aft The Elder Scrolls 6.

The past we heard connected Fallout 5, by the way, was backmost successful June 2024, erstwhile Todd Howard said helium wasn’t funny successful rushing it retired the door. Howard opened up astir the aboriginal of the deed post-apocalyptic RPG bid during an interrogation with YouTube contented creator MrMattyPlays.

"For different Fallout games successful the future, you know, evidently I can’t speech astir those close now, but I would say, benignant of rushing done them, oregon we benignant of request to get worldly retired that is antithetic than the enactment we’re doing successful 76… we don’t consciousness similar we request to unreserved immoderate of that," helium said. "The Fallout TV amusement fills a definite niche successful presumption of the franchise and storytelling."

The past mainline Fallout crippled was Fallout 4, which was released successful 2015. DLC contented for the introduction was steadily released for PC and consoles implicit the adjacent year, and successful 2018, Bethesda launched its multiplayer-centered offshoot, Fallout 76. While fans dilatory flocked to the West Virginia-set open-world RPG, it wasn’t until the premiere of Prime Video’s Fallout TV amusement that the Bethesda bid leveled up successful presumption of attention.

Still, Howard wouldn't budge erstwhile it came to desires for a important video crippled release. For him, it comes down to wanting to dainty Bethesda's franchises with care.

"Totally get the tendency for a caller benignant of mainline single-player game," helium said. "And look, those things instrumentality time. I don’t deliberation it’s atrocious for radical to miss things. We conscionable privation to get it close and marque definite that everything we’re doing successful a franchise, whether it’s Elder Scrolls, Fallout, oregon present Starfield, that those go meaningful moments for everybody who loved these franchises arsenic overmuch arsenic we do."

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