If you’re excited to dive back into Fallout after the TV show, maybe hold off on Fallout 3 for now

I played so much of Fallout 3 when it released in 2008 that the Wasteland really was a wasteland—I scoured that big, open map for every quest and scrap of loot and Nuka Cola bottle cap I could find. I loved it at the time, and I’d happily return to check in on my super mutant buddy Fawkes or nuke Megaton all over again. But I’m not going to—at least not yet. If you’re having a similar urge, I’d recommend playing Fallout New Vegas instead and being patient, because a better version of Fallout 3 is supposedly on the way. 

It’s hard to keep track of these sorts of things, but last September a document leak indicated that Bethesda was working on remasters of two of its biggest games: Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Bethesda never commented on the leaks, but they sure make good business sense. The popularity of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout has increased dramatically since 2006 and 2008, when those two games came out. Remasters would almost certainly sell well, and help fill in the gap while players wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5, both still years away.