With Season 2 of the Fallout TV series now here, many players are likely wondering how (or even if) the events of the uber-popular show will tie into developer Bethesda Game Studios’ next entry in the universe of Fallout role-playing games (RPGs).
“In short, yes,” says Todd Howard, executive producer and director at Bethesda Game Studios, speaking with BBC on all things Fallout in the wake of the season’s debut.
“Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening,” Howard says. “We are taking that into account.”
This makes sense, as it’s worth noting for those who haven’t yet watched it that the Fallout TV series isn’t a direct adaptation of the events of one of the games. Instead, it’s treated as another entry in the universe altogether, and is in fact the latest sequence of events in the Fallout timeline.
With that in mind, of course, the team at Bethesda Game Studios would take care to note and possibly reference the events of the series in Fallout 5.
Of course, the elephant in the room here is that Fallout 5 isn’t close. Bethesda Game Studios has grown since its parent company, ZeniMax Media, was acquired by Microsoft, but the developer is divided into multiple teams, with some continuing to work on updates and a new expansion for the 2023 science-fiction RPG Starfield, while others continue to work on Fallout 76.
By far the largest team at Bethesda Game Studios is the one working on The Elder Scrolls 6, which is the studio’s next mainline game. It’s still a ways away, but production is underway.
In the meantime, the second season of the Fallout TV series has premiered, and is currently exclusively available through Prime Video.
