Bethesda Confirms Four Fallout Projects — But Not a PS5 Release

After years of leaks, wishlists and "surely they're working on it" speculation, Bethesda has put its Fallout plans in writing. On 17 July 2026 the studio published a lengthy note on its own site confirming that remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are in active development, that Obsidian Entertainment is making a brand-new Fallout game, that Fallout 5 has entered pre-production, and that a Fallout 76 expansion is on the way. It is a remarkable amount of Fallout to confirm in a single sitting — and for PlayStation owners it comes with one very large asterisk.

What Bethesda Actually Confirmed

The announcement did not arrive as a flashy showcase. It came as a written update — an unusually candid one — in which game director Todd Howard acknowledged that the studio needs "to find a way to say a bit more so that our fans understand what we're doing." What followed was less a trailer reel than a statement of intent covering the next several years of the series.

Outlets including PC Gamer and Video Games Chronicle ran the same list of confirmed projects, all drawn from the one post. Here is the roadmap as it stands, with the crucial caveat attached to each item.

Note what is not in that right-hand column: no release windows for the remasters or new games, no screenshots, and — the point PlayStation readers care about — no platform commitments of any kind.

The Two Remasters

The headline for most players is the pair of remasters. Bethesda's wording, as quoted by Push Square, was direct: "While we're not announcing any dates today, we have been working on remasters for both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas." Two of the most beloved entries in the series — one Bethesda's own 2008 role-playing epic, the other Obsidian's cult-favourite 2010 spin-off — getting the modern treatment is the kind of news the community has been asking for since the Fallout TV show reignited interest in the franchise.

The obvious reference point is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, which Bethesda shadow-dropped in 2025 and which did land on PS5. That precedent is exactly why so many headlines leapt straight to "PS5 remasters." But a precedent is not a promise, and Bethesda pointedly declined to repeat it here. Treat the platforms as expected but unconfirmed — reasonable to hope for, not yet stated.

Obsidian's Game, Fallout 5 and the 76 Expansion

The most symbolically loaded confirmation is Obsidian's return to the wasteland. Obsidian built New Vegas, still regarded by many as the high-water mark of the modern series, and the studio is now under the same corporate roof as Bethesda following Microsoft's acquisitions. Howard's line — that he "could not be more excited to work with Obsidian again" — frames a genuine reunion rather than a licensing deal. Bethesda was explicit that this Obsidian project is not Fallout 5; it is a separate game. Reports ahead of the announcement suggested it would be a first-person RPG with New Vegas veteran Josh Sawyer involved, but treat those specifics as reported rather than confirmed — Bethesda's own note did not spell out the director or the perspective.

Fallout 5, meanwhile, is officially in pre-production, which Bethesda described as its "long-range destination." In practical terms that means years away — Fallout 5 sits behind The Elder Scrolls VI in the studio's queue, and no one should expect it this console generation. Rounding out the slate is a Fallout 76 expansion, confirmed as a prequel story tied to Fallout 3; its name and a 2027 window have been reported but not formally dated. Bethesda also flagged a 30th-anniversary celebration for the franchise, with a live event planned in Washington, D.C. in 2027.

The PlayStation Question

Here is where a PS5-owner site has to be careful. Several outlets — including some whose headlines read "PS5 remasters confirmed" — are running ahead of what Bethesda actually said. As Push Square's own commenters were quick to point out, the announcement contains no PlayStation confirmation at all. The word "PS5" appears in a lot of coverage and in zero of Bethesda's sentences.

The encouraging signs are real: Oblivion Remastered came to PS5, Microsoft has been steadily widening its multiplatform releases, and Halo: Campaign Evolved is about to make Master Chief's PlayStation debut. A Fallout franchise that skips PS5 entirely would run against that grain. But "against the grain" is not the same as "impossible," and the honest position today is that we do not know.

What It Means for PS5 Owners

If you own a PS5 and love Fallout, the sensible read is optimism held loosely. There is now an official, multi-year pipeline of Fallout — two remasters, two new games and an expansion — and the recent direction of travel for Bethesda's catalogue has been towards PlayStation, not away from it. That is a much better position than the years of silence that preceded it.

What you should not do yet is plan around it. No dates means no pre-orders, no countdowns and no assumptions about which of these lands first. If you are itching for wasteland-adjacent role-playing in the meantime, our best PS5 RPGs of 2026 round-up and the Blood of Dawnwalker coverage are better uses of the wait, and our upcoming PS5 games tracker will pick these titles up the moment a platform is actually attached to them.

We will update this page — and add it to the release trackers — if and when Bethesda confirms PS5 versions and dates. Until then it stays exactly where the source puts it: confirmed as projects, unconfirmed as PlayStation games.

The Bottom Line

Bethesda's 17 July note is the biggest Fallout news in years: Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, a new Obsidian-made Fallout, Fallout 5 in pre-production and a Fallout 76 prequel expansion are all officially real. For PlayStation owners the story is genuinely exciting and genuinely incomplete — every project is confirmed, and not one platform is. Bank the optimism, hold off on the countdown, and let the confirmations arrive before the calendar entries do.