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The world of Fallout is about to get even bigger. While Bethesda fans are still waiting for updates on The Elder Scrolls 6 and the long and seemingly endless road to Fallout 5, executive producer and game director Todd Howard has offered an intriguing tease about what's coming first. Speaking about the Prime Video adaptation, Howard revealed that Fallout Season 3 won't just revisit familiar landmarks from the games. Instead, the series is preparing to take viewers somewhere completely new, introducing parts of the wasteland that even longtime players haven't experienced before.
In a recent interview, Howard discussed the show's future following the events of Season 2. While he remained tight-lipped about specific story details, he emphasized that one of Fallout's greatest strengths is its ability to explore different corners of post-apocalyptic America. "We talked about this at the end of Season 2, hinting we're going to new places," Howard said.
"So one of the things that we all love about Fallout is the geography of the world and being able to show some new things in the Fallout world that I think will surprise people, that they've never seen before in the games."
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You're a systems thinker who can't help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn't reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That's you.
You'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn't have it any other way.
Howard's comments are exciting because, after leaning into fan-favorite additions like Deathclaws in Season 2, Season 3 looks ready to expand the franchise with entirely new ideas. The finale also teased a move to Colorado, a region never explored in a mainline Bethesda Fallout game, giving the series room to tell fresh stories without being tied to existing game lore. His comments become even more interesting when viewed alongside what he's previously said about the future of the games. Bethesda has already confirmed that Fallout 5 will exist after the events of the television series in the franchise timeline, meaning anything introduced on the show has the potential to become part of the series' game canon moving forward. Howard has previously explained that Fallout 5 will take place in "a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening," opening the door for characters, locations, factions, or even entirely new concepts introduced in the series to appear in the next mainline game.
Of course, fans shouldn't expect to visit those new locations in a game anytime soon. Howard has also confirmed that the vast majority of Bethesda Game Studios is currently focused on The Elder Scrolls 6, with the studio determined to "get it right" before turning its full attention to the next Fallout. Even with Microsoft's renewed focus on flagship franchises like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, Fallout 5 remains years away. That makes the television series an even more important part of the franchise's future. Instead of simply adapting what's already familiar, Fallout Season 3 looks poised to become the first place fans discover entirely new corners of Bethesda's post-nuclear world. Season 3 does not currently have a release date, but was said by Howard to be entering development soon, coinciding with a recent wave of casting announcements. Stay up to date on Fallout news with Collider.
