Bethesda Finally Shared the Roadmap Fans Needed a Decade Ago

Bethesda Game Studios released a long-awaited internal memo this week that essentially confirmed what many fans had assumed but never heard officially: the studio is working on The Elder Scrolls VI, Fallout 5 is in pre-production, Obsidian is making a Fallout game, and remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are coming. Xbox head of studios Matt Booty also reportedly indicated that Obsidian should focus on bigger franchises rather than B-tier projects—a sentiment that aligns with the studio's history of making beloved sequels to other developers' games, starting with Knights of the Old Republic II.

The panel's reaction was mixed. Damon Hatfield called it "the roadmap it should have shared 10 years ago." Justin Davis noted that the memo mostly affirmed things that were already heavily rumored but never confirmed, calling it "really positive great news to tell fans of these games that have not been getting them for a while." Sam Clayborn pointed out the irony: "You could send John Connor back in time with this memo and fix a lot of problems that have happened over the past decade."