Fallout 5 is officially in the works, and remasters of two previous games are coming! Along with...

It is official: Fallout 5 is in development.  Bethesda mastermind Todd Howard confirmed it yesterday.  Right now it's being called "in pre-production", which could mean a lot of things.  Depending on how far things are it could mean that concept art is being created.  It could also mean that the staff are still trying to determine where this new Fallout game takes place.  Previous games have been set in the California desert, the ruins of Washington D.C., the Boston region, and the landscape surrounding Las Vegas.  Where will the next Fallout take us?

Speaking of Las Vegas, Howard also said that remasters of Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 are coming.  Which will become an enormous time sink for me.  Fallout 3 sucked me in so hard that I spent over 130 hours playing it.  I got sooo obsessed with finding every secret, talking to every character that I could.  If someone said that Fallout 3 must be my most favorite game ever, that would probably be close to the mark.  And as I said a few days ago about Fallout: New Vegas I seem to be cursed to start that game but never close to finishing it.  Maybe I should wait for its remaster to begin anew?

Howard also reconfirmed that studio Obsidian - the outfit that brought us New Vegas - is at work on their Fallout game (there's no word on where that takes place either).  And there are updates coming to Fallout 76 and mobile game sensation Fallout Shelter.

And finally, Howard reports that something special is being planned for the thirtieth anniversary of the original Fallout next year.  The event is to be held in Washington D.C.

I'm looking forward to Fallout 5.  Although it will be somewhat bittersweet.  I'm probably going to ve in my mid-sixties, at the least, before Fallout 6 comes out.  Maybe I should begin that Fallout tontine I suggested a year ago.  Might be a fun lil' exercise to get involved in.

Anyhoo, be of good cheer.  Lots of good Fallout is coming down the pike.  

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Reveal trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle!

Word is breaking loose at this hour that Bethesda's new Indiana Jones game has finally been revealed...

Coming later this year it's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.  Looks set pre World War II aka the "golden era" of the saga.  As for the "MacGuffin" of this particular adventure, there are hints of in in the trailer that went live a little while ago.

So let's take a look at it!

I'm not much of a video game player anymore (though I still want to eventually finish Fallout: New Vegas) but this might tempt me to get a new console.  Well, of course a new BioShock game would make me want that even more :-)

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Since FALLOUT 76 is now officially in West Virginia...

...I just had to run with it!

Actually, "Walton's Mountain" would be a hilariously appropriate name for a player's encampment.  Maybe someone on your team can set up a moonshine still in his or her house.  Y'know, in honor of the Baldwin Sisters and their "recipe".

Fallout 76 streets on November 14.

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Bethesda has just announced FALLOUT 76!

Look!  Teaser trailer!

Seems like the Fallout series is going to West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley area.  Definitely somewhere in Appalachia...

 
I have but one thing to say:

After they release Fallout 76 Bethesda should make Fallout: Lucky City based on my old hometown Reidsville, North Carolina. They wouldn't even have to design anything from scratch, just use what's already there!  Here, I've even bombed the place ahead of schedule for them...

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