The moment that Fallout fans have been waiting for might have finally arrived. It has been claimed that Fallout 5 has been greenlit at Bethesda Game Studios. This news comes after a project was cancelled at ZeniMax to reportedly shift around resources to focus more tightly on Fallout.
It has been a decade since the last major Fallout game was released, provided you don’t ‘count’ the 2018 release of Fallout 76, an MMORPG set in the expansive game universe.
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In a recent episode of The Xbox Two podcast, Windows Central’s Jez Corden spoke to Fallout 5 and the future of the franchise at Bethesda Game Studios. He leant into the idea that Fallout 5 is all systems go as the higher echelons canceled Project Blackbird to make room for the post-apocalyptic series, which came following a massive round of layoffs at Microsoft.
Corden played a little coy, talking with a little conjecture and suggesting that the studio spearheading the development of Fallout 5 could be up in the air and unconfirmed at present.
This is an evolution of where the plans for Fallout 5 previously sat. We’ve spent the last couple of years working with the notion that Bethesda Game Studios has a ‘one-pager’ outlining the scope of Fallout 5, and that’s it. While the game being ‘greenlit’ doesn’t suggest much more, it does indicate the active intention to make the game a reality.
It was also rumoured recently that ‘multiple’ Fallout projects are in development, prompting fans of the franchise to surmise what they could be. The running theory is that one is Fallout 3 Remastered, while another could be something tied to New Vegas in celebration of the ongoing success of the television show.
On that note, the second season recently wrapped production and was given a December release date.
It’s not at all known what Fallout 5 might look like, and that’s causing Fallout fans to have fever dreams predicting what the shape of the game could be. Will it be another single-player exclusive game, or will Bethesda lean into multiplayer once again? Will it still be set in the United States, or will the series leave the nation for the first time?
If you listen to Jonathan Rush, the creative director working on Fallout 76, the series will never leave the United States.
What are you hoping to see in Fallout 5? Let me know your thoughts on the Insider Gaming forum.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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