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REVEALED: 6 - The Real Truth

Should you play Fallout: New Vegas before watching Fallout season 2?

Short on time? Here's whether you should play New Vegas before Fallout's new season

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"Fallout was one of the first games that really shocked:" Our first glimpse of Fallout 3 showed how hard Bethesda worked to inherit and maintain an RPG legacy

From the Vault | Bethesda's Todd Howard and Istvan Pely weigh in on our first Fallout 3 preview in Edge Magazine, 2007

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Bethesda's Todd Howard says Fallout 76 is "the game we're still doing the most work in," and fans of the Prime TV show should give it a try

"If you're watching the show and you think, 'I want to experience that', 76 right now is just awesome"

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The Elder Scrolls 6 didn't make an appearance at The Game Awards 2025, and the RPG community is once again in shambles: "Todd Howard and Bethesda fatigue has finally set in"

The "gut-wrenching disappointment" is so real

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Fallout's Aaron Moten and Todd Howard reveal their favorite set details and may have just confirmed aliens will appear in season 2

Exclusive: Fallout season 2 could be out of this world, according to this tidbit from Aaron Moten

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Fallout 4 was initially set in New York because it's 'something grand and American' and Nick Valentine capped-off the very first design document: 'I think the photo was of Humphrey Bogart'

"But at that time, other games were being set in New York."

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The official Fallout season 1 recap is filled with AI and thinks the show is set in the 1950s

Drop the bombs already

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says it's "very odd" to see characters he created in the Prime Video show with "no credit" and "no residuals"

"In some ways, I think doing narrative in video games is a little akin to doing comic book work"

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Bethesda boss Todd Howard sees your comments about Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, says the studio is "working on all sorts of stuff": "In general, I prefer to wait"

Todd Howard sees your comments about Fallout 3 and New Vegas, says Bethesda is "working on all sorts of stuff"

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Todd Howard says Fallout season 2 strikes the balance between "starting fresh" in New Vegas and "honoring the journey" of players who have spent 1000s of hours in the iconic RPG location

Exclusive: Todd Howard talks about returning to New Vegas

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Senior Bethesda dev says the Fallout show works because Todd Howard wouldn't let the usual 'videogame directors' touch it: 'We want the best director, the best showrunner possible'

"We could have made a Fallout movie or Fallout TV show a decade ago⁠—we had certainly been asked.

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Todd Howard, you've done it again: Skyrim now has a Switch 2 Anniversary Edition, just when you thought Bethesda might have run out of ways to re-release the 14-year-old RPG

Owners of the Switch 1 Anniversary Edition can upgrade for free

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Fallout and Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard reads "a lot" of Reddit, says seeing fans' thoughts line up with what Bethesda is doing gives "confidence to lean in more on some of those things"

Todd Howard is a self-proclaimed "Reddit fan"

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Fallout 4 is actually "quite a hopeful story," according to Todd Howard, who believes the whole series is lowkey optimistic: "Every character, what will they do to survive?"

Howard considers hope a thematic through-line of the franchise

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Todd Howard shares opinions on generative AI in game development — and it might not be the take you expected from Bethesda

In a new interview, Todd Howard breaks down how AI should support artists instead of replacing them, while also revealing the game that impressed him most this year.

Total Film

Fallout season 2 will "avoid" outright confirming which New Vegas ending is canon because "we didn't want to contradict anyone's experiences playing the games"

Exclusive: Geneva Robertson-Dworet digs into the reasons behind why Fallout season 2 won't commit to a New Vegas ending

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Fallout and The Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard's GOTY pick just so happens to be the current game of the year frontrunner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Join the line

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Todd Howard says AI can't replace human 'creative intention,' but it's part of Bethesda's 'toolset for how we build our worlds or check things'

Maybe he should've said Office. No, wait. Gmail? No, hold on.

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After the success of Fallout, Bethesda boss Todd Howard says an Elder Scrolls TV series "can't be ruled out"

An Elder Scrolls TV series isn't off the table, but we might be waiting a while

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Fallout boss Todd Howard reassures New Vegas fans that the Amazon TV show built an "incredible" set for season 2: "Their ability to pull it off on the scale, so much of it practical, it was incredible"

Grab a Nuka-Cola, because Fallout season 2 is on its way

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Elder Scrolls and Fallout boss Todd Howard says AI is a useful "tool" in game dev, but "not in generating things" because "the human intention of it is what makes our stuff special"

"We are always working on our toolset for how we build our worlds or check things"

PC Gamer

Todd Howard says that the Fallout franchise is 'a cautionary tale', and that 'that world before the bombs fall' is what makes it so special

I don't want to set the world on fire, but if I did, it'd probably make for a pretty good game franchise.

Total Film

Fallout's TV adaptation is "way more" popular than Todd Howard expected, so the RPG series' devs have had to ensure "the games are ready for all the players who are coming into them"

That seemingly isn't making Fallout 5 come any faster though...

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Bethesda's Todd Howard tips his hat to Obsidian, says he invited the Fallout: New Vegas devs to the Fallout Season 2 set to relive the iconic setting

"We know the folks at Obsidian well, love their work, and so we reached out to them"

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An immortal-looking Todd Howard thinks GTA 6 will be out before The Elder Scrolls 6, calls Rockstar "some of the absolute best" at world design

I hate to tell ya Todd, but that at this rate, so will GTA 7

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