Bethesda Roadmap - Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout 5, Obsidian Fallout, Fallout 3 and New Vegas Remasters - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 July 2026 / 4,834 Views
Bethesda Game Studios has released a roadmap for the Fallout series and its other major IPs. This includes announcing several new games.
The company following a report has confirmed it is working with Obsidian Entertainment on a new Fallout game with more details to be shared in the future. Remasters for Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas have also been announced. However, no other information on these games have been released.
Bethesda has also announced Fallout 5 is in pre-production while its main focus is The Elder Scrolls VI. Both games are using Creation Engine 3, which has been the team has been building since Starfield's release in September 2023.
ZeniMax Online Studios, the studio behind The Elder Scrolls Online, will be working closer with Bethesda Game Studios on The Elder Scrolls franchise.
Bethesda will continue working on Starfield as it enters its third year with plans to expand with new stories, along with gameplay improvements, and additional updates, while preparing for the launch of new Starborn content next year.
Read the full message from Bethesda below:
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 percent 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 pre-production. 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
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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I hate how ambiguous remasted has become as a word. I wonder what it's going to mean this time... I'm guessing it'll be cheap cashgrabs rather than Oblivion-style.
It was in a Bethesda roadmap from July 2020 that was released to the public during the ABK acquisition hearing In June 2023, at the time (July 2020) it was scheduled for Fiscal Year 2024, the year ending June 2024, so it would have been planned to have 3 to 4 years of development at the time. It is now expected in Spring 2027, so almost 7 years after that Bethesda roadmap document from July 2020. The Oblivion Remaster was also on that roadmap for fiscal year 2022, so it was 3 years late as well. It doesn't take 7 years to make a cheap 4K resolution remaster with the original textures, lighting, character models, etc. I'd say it is a pretty safe bet that it will be just like the Oblivion Remaster last year, so UE5 graphics layered over the original Gamebryo Engine gameplay systems.
I suspect we will see the green lighting that everybody hated gone (the 2nd most downloaded Fallout 3 mod removes the green lighting, and Bethesda themselves didn't keep it for Fallout 4), and alot of other good UE5 things, raytracing, much better character models, much better textures, better looking foliage, etc.
OK, that seems like a pretty good argument. You might very well be right.
That's a big info dump. I would honestly be most interested in a new top-down Fallout. Other than that I just hope ES 6 turns out good when it finally comes out (in gen 12).
