Microsoft has appointed Jill Braff as head of Bethesda/ZeniMax studios.
03.12.2023 - 17:39 / eurogamer.net / Todd Howard / Bethesda Softworks / Walton Goggins / Jonathan Nolan / Lisa Joy / Ella Purnell / Aaron Moten / And It
Amazon has dropped a new meaty teaser to get us in the mood for the upcoming Fallout TV show.
From the creators of Westworld, executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and starring Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Chris Parnell, Lost's Michael Emerson, and Walton Goggins, Fallout is set to arrive on Prime Video on 12th April 12, 2024. And the teaser has got a lot of us very excited, not least because Dogmeat is now all but confirmed.
You can check out the full two-and-a-half-minutes-long video below:
«Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have,» explains Amazon's official blurb.
«200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.»
For more Fallout, check out Victoria's incredible deep-dive into the official images that were released last week.
Bethesda's Todd Howard, who is an executive producer on the series, said the showrunners had «a lot of conversations over the style of humour, the level of violence, the style of violence» that would be included in the show.
«Look, Fallout can be very dramatic, and dark, and post apocalyptic, but you need to weave in a little bit of a wink… I think they threaded that needle really well on the TV show,» he said.
Microsoft has appointed Jill Braff as head of Bethesda/ZeniMax studios.
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is Bethesda Softworks’ biggest game yet in almost every respect, featuring an unprecedented amount of playable space, an inventive New Game Plus feature, and a record-breaking launch. The game took roughly seven years to complete—typical Bethesda games take around four—and is considered a true passion project on behalf of Bethesda director Todd Howard and the rest of the developers. In December 2023, was reported to see 1.2 million daily players, and had amassed somewhere around 12,000,000 players in total.
Amazon has released the first trailer for its upcoming Fallout TV series.