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Fallout 5 has reportedly been officially greenlit and development is moving forward, though who, exactly, is leading development on the new installment in the series is currently unknown.
The report comes from the latest episode of the Xbox Two Podcast, where Windows Central executive editor Jez Corden discussed how Xbox is handling Fallout as a franchise moving forward. However, he didn’t know what studio would be developing Fallout 5, as he believes Bethesda Game Studios’ core teams are currently busy working on additional Starfield DLC and The Elder Scrolls VI.
Corden said from what he has heard, part of the forward push for Fallout 5 and Fallout in general came at the expense of ZeniMax Online’s next MMO, codenamed Blackbird, which was canceled as part of Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs.
As Corden explains, MMOs are expensive to build and have to compete with established games like World of Warcraft and even ZeniMax’s own The Elder Scrolls Online. With that in mind, Microsoft made the decision to cancel ZeniMax’s unannounced project and invest that money into Fallout, an established IP that would more likely be a “surefire win.”
“From what I heard, it was a case of ‘Do we want to sink a ton
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