The rumored Fallout 3 remaster is supposedly in active development and set to receive the glossy Oblivion treatment. Bethesda itself is being vague about it; in a new interview with GQ, director Todd Howard simply confirms the developer has "hundreds of people on Fallout right now, with 76 and some other things we're doing." But Video Games Chronicle (VGC) reports about this, "One of the 'other things' Howard is referring to, VGC understands, is a remaster of Fallout 3, similar to this year's The Elder Scrolls Oblivion: Remastered." As desperate fans lament Fallout 5's no-show during the Fallout Day broadcast, Todd Howard himself promises Bethesda is "working on even more" Upcoming Bethesda games: every game currently in the works Fallout 5: Everything we know so far, and what we hope to see But even if Howard remains quiet, as he tends to be, about what exactly Bethesda is doing right now, old legal documents reveal some of his secrets. Namely, a 2023 leak revealed that Xbox had ambitiously planned to release The Elder Scrolls 6 and a Fallout 3 remaster, among other titles. Though, we now know, this schedule fell through like a bad soufflé, it still offers a bit of hope for Fallout 3. It's never too late for a game from 2008 to change. "Fallout is great," Howard tells GQ, "because it can be a gonzo B-movie one moment and then it can be life-or-death trauma. It's what we spent a lot of time getting right on the TV show. "I think the best quest is one with the characters you meet: what have they done to survive and why? How do you feel about that?" Todd Howard "hadn't had a break in 20 years" when Fallout 4 came out, so he took a 3-month sabbatical to "go touch some grass,"