A NOTE FROM BETHESDA GAME STUDIOS
We love making these worlds as much as you love playing in them. Today, we want to share what's next for Bethesda Game Studios and what you can expect from us in the years ahead.
For forty years, we've built games that have entertained almost half a billion players. More than just games, these are worlds. Worlds for you to explore, shape, and make your own. Worlds we return to together.
That's what's driving us forward. We're investing more deeply in the worlds players love, giving creators a bigger role in shaping their experiences, and bringing our teams closer together so we can get our games into your hands sooner, support them longer, and continue building them alongside you for decades to come.
STARFIELD CONTINUES
With over 17 million players logging almost a billion hours to date, Starfield remains an important part of our future. As we enter Year 3, we'll continue expanding the Settled Systems with new stories, targeted gameplay improvements, and additional updates, while preparing for the launch of new Starborn content next year. More than 40% of players already customize their experience through Creations, and we'll continue investing in creators and giving players new ways to make Starfield their own.
CREATED BY PLAYERS
We've believed from the beginning that our worlds belong not only to the people who make them, but also to the people who play them. That's why we've long provided players with the tools to create their own experiences, dating back to the Morrowind Construction Set. This year marked another major milestone for Creations with its expansion to Fallout 4, joining Skyrim and Starfield. We're proud to say Creators have already earned more than $10 million in royalties from their work.
THE FUTURE OF FALLOUT
Fallout is one of our biggest priorities today. Fallout 5 remains our long-range destination, and we have multiple Fallout projects in active development right now.
Fallout 76 continues to be home to millions of players exploring Appalachia together. With nearly 70 free updates released to date, the journey is far from over. In fact, we have a major Fallout 76 expansion planned for next year: Raven Rock, a prequel story to Fallout 3.
Fallout 4, the most award-winning game in the franchise, just celebrated its 10-year anniversary and recently passed over 35 million copies sold, continuing to attract a new audience every year.
We also know many players want to revisit previous Fallout experiences. While we're not announcing any dates today, we have been working on remasters for both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
Fallout Shelter continues to be the most popular way to experience Fallout on the go, with more than 250 million players. There’s more ahead for Fallout Shelter, including new Seasons. An unscripted Fallout Shelter television project is also in the works with our partners at Amazon Studios and Kilter Films.
We'd like to congratulate Kilter Films and Amazon Studios on the 10 Emmy nominations for Fallout Season 2. Production on Season 3 is already underway.
And while we won't host a traditional Fallout Day broadcast this year, we're already planning something special for Fallout's 30th anniversary in 2027, when Fallout Day will be celebrated live in Washington, D.C.
STUDIO COLLABORATION
The wasteland continues to expand as we team up once again with our longtime friends at Obsidian Entertainment. We're happy to confirm they're working with us on a new Fallout project. We'll have more to share in the future.
We're also bringing our teams closer together across Bethesda. ZeniMax Online Studios will partner closely with Bethesda Game Studios on The Elder Scrolls franchise, while continuing to deliver incredible new experiences for The Elder Scrolls Online. Season One: Return of the Thieves Guild recently launched, and the team has more planned for the future. By aligning more directly across the franchise, we can create even better experiences for players.
Bringing our teams closer together is helping us build a stronger foundation for everything we create next.
THE ELDER SCROLLS AND BEYOND
That foundation extends beyond our teams to the technology, tools, and systems that will power the next generation of Bethesda RPGs.
Our teams are now developing The Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 5 on Creation Engine 3, a shared technology platform we've been building since Starfield's launch. It allows our teams to support multiple projects simultaneously with new tools, rendering, and systems that define our games.
Fallout 5 is currently in preproduction. The Elder Scrolls VI is our primary development focus today, with the majority of our team currently working on the next chapter of the franchise. With over 65 million copies sold, players are still exploring Skyrim 15 years later, but we know it’s been a very long wait for the sequel.
The next chapter is on the way. We’re where we planned to be, loving how it looks, and playing it every day.
THE ROAD AHEAD
Across Bethesda Game Studios, we're building for the future of Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Starfield. We're investing in our technology, bringing teams closer together, supporting our live games, expanding into new forms of entertainment, and developing the next generation of Bethesda RPGs.
We couldn’t be more excited for what’s ahead and wanted to share as much as we could today. We can’t thank you enough for all you’ve given to us and these worlds. And we can’t wait to continue them together.
–Bethesda Game Studios
@FarCrygame@CrabIsMeat I've been playing far cry games for the first time starting with 3, then 4, then 5 and currently Far Cry 6. It's not that bad, was Far Cry 5 better? Yes, but 6 still is enjoyable altough its map is a little too big and the story is mediocre, but it is still enjoyable. 7/10
Valve developer Christopher H. Green has announced his second retirement from Valve after rejoining the company in 2023, ending his 45-year career in the computer industry.
To mark his retirement, Green held a Q&A on r/Valve, where fans asked about his time at Valve and the company’s future.
One fan asked if he could say anything about Valve’s rumored HLX project. Green replied:
“I think you know the answer to that :-)”
@summergamefest Currently Far Cry 5. I played the Far Cry series for the first time, starting with 3, then 4 and recently 5. I want to try FC6 this summer, Subnautica 2 and maybe I will play Prey (2017).
@astrocriminal@Revolushionario@haruhiprophet The idea that a *sandbox* survival game has one ending and linear progression is baffling. Its carried by the fact that its the only game like it, has a really good soundtrack, and is receiving active updates
@astrocriminal@Revolushionario@haruhiprophet Just like spending hours playing with the things you built in legos is impossible to do as an adult, minecraft's fun is bound to your creativity and imagination... Which naturally declines as you age, hence why the game gets worse
@HD_HD_______@Revolushionario@haruhiprophet Well, I beat it like less than a dozen times. Most of the 3000 thousands hours spent were on a console as a child and I only played on creative doing random stuff. Only when I took a long break and played it again on PC did I finally beat it. This discussion is pointless anyway.
@astrocriminal@Revolushionario@haruhiprophet And yet you played it for 3000 hours. Yes the game gets boring. All games get boring. Most people don't ever play through and beat a game more than once. With Minecraft it's weirder to say you did that than it is to say you've beaten the game countless times.
The Half-Life 2: All Good Things mod author has shared another dev progress of his Epistle 3 inspired project.
With 11 maps already playable, the playtest session will help shape things up shortly, which you may expect a Steam Workshop release towards the end Autumn (Fall) 2026.
@dawng1ory@Revolushionario@haruhiprophet I played most of it on a console when I was a lot younger. I played on creative just buitling random stuff, didn't like how it turned out, made a new world, started again. It was a thing to chill to after a day of school. Fun wore off after a while, I still play time to time 1/2
@Revolushionario@haruhiprophet Minecraft is not that good if you think about it and it comes from someone who has 3 thousand hours in it. First time you play it, it's fun, you figure out stuff in an alien blocky world, but the longer you play it, the worse it gets. 1/2