Amid all the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered leakage of the past day or so, you might have forgotten that one of the first places that was ever mentioned was in a document which leaked during Microsoft’s court battle with the FTC. Another thing said doc listed was a Fallout 3 remaster, and a leaker’s now claimed “it’ll be a while” before we see that game.
As a quick refresher, those Microsoft documents accidentally came out as part of 2023 court proceedings between the company and the FTC over the former’s Activision Blizzard deal. God, remember that being the news story that just never ended? Anyway, listed alongside stuff like the Oblivion remaster, Dishonored 3, and a bunch of games that have since released was a remaster of 2008’s most iconic dad-chasing simulator.
Fast forward to now, and we’ve heard barely a peep else about that Fallout 3 remaster. Enter prominent leaker NateTheHate (via TheGamer), who’s responded to a tweet from a fan keen to know if said remaster is still a thing, seemingly because getting an Oblivion remaster sometime very soon isn’t enough.
“It’ll be a while before we see it,” the leaker claimed in response. Short, sweet, and vague enough that we’ll all be kept guessing for the foreseeable. Nice.
Looking back at the original leaked doc, the Fallout 3 remaster was listed for what looked like the 2024 financial year, alongside stuff like The Elder Scrolls 6 (aaaaaaahhhhh) and Dishonored 3 – basically most of the other stuff we’ve not gotten yet since the doc emerged. As folks pointed out at the time, however, there’s no telling how accurate the doc still is at this point, with the potential for plans to have changed or ideas to have been scrapped between it being leaked and it actually being put together, let alone now we’re a year and a bit down the line from the leak.
So, all we can do for now is sit and wait. To be fair, it’s not like we’re already looking to have two Oblivion remasters to play this year in the form the official one and massive mod Skyblivion. We’re so hard done by (seriously though, please release TES VI before I turn 30).
