Xbox Finally Confirms 'Fallout 5' Release Update

Waiting for a Fallout game is starting to feel a little bit like waiting for The Winds of Winter to come out, having been played in a Vault-Tec experiment to wait it out. At least that’s how it’s felt since Fallout 4 was released more than a decade ago. The Elder Scrolls VI is still somewhere on the horizon, and Bethesda’s development pipeline has not exactly been moving at radroach speed, but despite all that, the franchise has actually never been as nuclear hot as it is right now. Because of the continued life of Fallout 76 and Prime Video’s global hit television adaptation, Fallout has found itself as one of Xbox’s most valuable worlds, and that could be good news for Fallout 5.

A new report suggests Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is planning to put more money behind Microsoft’s biggest first-party franchises, including Fallout, Halo, and The Elder Scrolls. The idea would be to give studios like Bethesda additional resources so they can hire more developers, speed up production, and shorten the long gaps between major releases. That’s probably the best news Fallout fans could hear right now outside of a Bethesda trailer with a dusty radio playing 1950s hits, a ruined highway and a skeleton lying in a funny pose.

The change in tact is necessary for the franchise too. With the success of the series, and the price Microsoft paid to acquire Bethesda, they need to strike while the iron is radiating, and letting all that momentum sit untouched for years would be a strange move indeed.



















































Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz
Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?
The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars

Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.

💊The Matrix

🔥Mad Max

🌧️Blade Runner

🏜️Dune

🚀Star Wars

01

You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do?
The first instinct is often the truest one.





02

In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely?
What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.





03

What kind of threat keeps you up at night?
Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.





04

How do you deal with authority you don’t trust?
Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.





05

Which environment could you actually endure long-term?
Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.





06

Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart?
The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.





07

Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all?
Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.





08

What would actually make survival worth it?
Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.





Your Fate Has Been Calculated
You’d Survive In…

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.


The Resistance, Zion

The Matrix

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.

  • You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
  • You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
  • You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
  • The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.


The Wasteland

Mad Max

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 don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
  • You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
  • You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
  • In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.


Los Angeles, 2049

Blade Runner

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

  • You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
  • In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
  • You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
  • In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.


Arrakis

Dune

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

  • Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
  • You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
  • Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
  • In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.


A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Star Wars

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.

  • You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
  • You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
  • You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
  • In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.

Who’s Involved with ‘Fallout’?

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The Fallout franchise was created by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, with Bethesda later taking over the mainline series through games including Fallout 3, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76. Prime Video’s adaptation stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) as Lucy MacLean, Walton Goggins (Justified) as The Ghoul, Aaron Moten (Emancipation) as Maximus, Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) as Hank MacLean, and Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island) as Norm MacLean. The series has been renewed for a third season by Prime Video.

Fallout is streaming now on Prime Video.


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Release Date

April 10, 2024

Network

Amazon Prime Video

Showrunner

Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan


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