Bethesda has announced a showcase for its annual Fallout Day on October 23.
October 23, 2077 is of course the day in the Fallout timeline the bombs fell, sparking The Great War that caused the irradiated wasteland fans of the franchise have been playing in over the last few decades.
The Fallout Day Broadcast will stream live on October 23 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UK, with the FalloutforHope post-show following immediately after.
In a statement, Bethesda said fans can expect “the latest news about our existing Fallout games, community celebrations, and upcoming fan events.”
📅 Save the date! Our annual #FalloutDay Broadcast will be streaming live on October 23 at 1pm ET, with the FalloutforHope post-show immediately following.
Tune in for the latest news about our existing Fallout games, community celebrations, and upcoming fan events! pic.twitter.com/hOSbioXena
— Fallout (@Fallout) October 8, 2025
There was no specific mention of news about upcoming games, but fans are already wondering what the company might have Fallout related up its sleeve. There are all sorts of rumors floating around about potential Fallout remakes now that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is out the door (Fallout 3 Remastered was leaked back in 2023, but those plans may have changed). And we know Bethesda plans to eventually get to Fallout 5, albeit after The Elder Scrolls 6.
Perhaps it’s more likely that we’ll get further updates on Fallout 76, which just announced the upcoming Burning Springs update and the addition of The Ghoul from Prime Video’s Fallout TV show, featuring the likeness and voice work from Walton Goggins himself. It’s also worth noting that Season 2 of Fallout, which is set in New Vegas, is due out this December, so maybe we’ll get a new trailer or images.
The last we heard on Fallout 5, by the way, was back in June 2024, when Bethesda Softworks head Todd Howard said he wasn’t interested in rushing it out the door. Howard opened up about the future of the hit post-apocalyptic RPG series during an interview with YouTube content creator MrMattyPlays.
“For other Fallout games in the future, you know, obviously I can’t talk about those right now, but I would say, sort of rushing through them, or we kind of need to get stuff out that is different than the work we’re doing in 76… we don’t feel like we need to rush any of that,” he said. “The Fallout TV show fills a certain niche in terms of the franchise and storytelling.”
The last mainline Fallout game was Fallout 4, which released in 2015. DLC content for the entry was steadily released for PC and consoles over the next year, and in 2018, Bethesda launched its multiplayer-centered offshoot, Fallout 76. While fans slowly flocked to the West Virginia-set open-world RPG, it wasn’t until the premiere of Prime Video’s Fallout TV show that the Bethesda series reached a new level of attention.
Still, Howard wouldn’t budge when it came to desires for a substantial video game release. For him, it comes down to wanting to treat Bethesda’s franchises with care.
“Totally get the desire for a new kind of mainline single-player game,” he said. “And look, those things take time. I don’t think it’s bad for people to miss things. We just want to get it right and make sure that everything we’re doing in a franchise, whether it’s Elder Scrolls, Fallout, or now Starfield, that those become meaningful moments for everybody who loved these franchises as much as we do.”
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