Bethesda Announces Fallout Day Broadcast for October 23 — but Are Any Megatons Planned?

Bethesda has announced a showcase for its yearly Fallout Day connected October 23.

October 23, 2077 is of people the time successful the Fallout timeline the bombs fell, sparking The Great War that caused the irradiated wasteland fans of the franchise person been playing successful implicit the past fewer decades.

The Fallout Day Broadcast volition watercourse unrecorded connected October 23 astatine 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UK, with the FalloutforHope post-show pursuing instantly after.

In a statement, Bethesda said fans tin expect “the latest quality astir our existing Fallout games, assemblage celebrations, and upcoming instrumentality events.”

There was nary circumstantial notation of quality astir upcoming games, but fans are already wondering what the institution mightiness person Fallout related up its sleeve. There 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 plans to yet get to Fallout 5, albeit aft The Elder Scrolls 6.

Perhaps it’s much apt that we’ll get further updates connected Fallout 76, which conscionable announced the upcoming Burning Springs update and the summation of The Ghoul from Prime Video’s Fallout TV show, featuring the likeness and dependable enactment from Walton Goggins himself. It’s besides worthy noting that Season 2 of Fallout, which is acceptable successful New Vegas, is owed retired this December, truthful possibly we’ll get a caller trailer oregon images.

The past we heard connected Fallout 5, by the way, was backmost successful June 2024, erstwhile Bethesda Softworks caput 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 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 reached a caller level 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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