Bethesda, Fallout and Season 3
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When your family is frozen in cryo-pods at the start of Fallout 4, two centuries pass in the blink of an eye. Now, we've stepped out of time once more. Fallout 4, released in 2015, turned 10 this November – and if you're having trouble accounting for those years,
Looking for something new to play? Fallout 76 is available now on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S for free, but only for a limited time. Bethesda has announced that the online RPG is now completely free to download and play through December 23. The freebie offer is not available on PC.
"In short, yes," says Todd Howard, executive producer and director at Bethesda Game Studios, speaking with BBC on all things Fallout in the wake of the season's debut. "Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening," Howard says. "We are taking that into account."
Bethesda's Todd Howard is the steward of the company's popular Fallout franchise, and many might have reasonably assumed he would have a cameo in the Prime Video TV show. He did not in Season 1 and does not have one in Season 2, either. But why?
With a 98% critic score, Fallout season 2 is the highest-scored season 2 of any live-action video game TV adaptation ever. The same is true for its current 96% audience score.
A matter of jubilation to some, trepidation to others, Bethesda Softworks ' acquisition of the violent roleplaying franchise Fallout back in 2004 has caused contention amongst its legions of avid fans, filling their still-thriving web communities with vitriol, fervour and wild speculation in equal parts.
In a press junket for the new Fallout TV show season 2, Bethesda's Todd Howard officially confirms that Fallout 5 will share the same timeline as the show.
It's official – Bethesda Game Studios has released yet another iteration (or, well, re-release, really) of 14-year-old RPG Skyrim, this time for the Nintendo Switch 2 … and it turns out that even Todd Howard himself probably knows about the memes.