Two days after a listing was found for an official toy based on “Fallout 3 Remastered”, journalist Jeff Gerstmann has further stoked the rumours about a refreshing of the 2008 role-playing game. In the latest episode of The Jeff Gerstmann show, Gerstmann claimed that a new Fallout game was in the works at Microsoft Game Studios that he believes has since been canceled.
There was a Fallout thing in development at another Microsoft owned studio that I think is no longer going to see the light of day.
According to Gerstmann, this should have no effect on the remakes in development based on other Bethesda properties, specifically mentioning a Fallout 3 ‘remake’:
They will probably not do the remakes. I think those have been outsourced to other.. like the Fallout 3 thing I think has been outsourced to an external studio.
It’s worth noting that while Gerstmann specifically uses the term ‘remake’ here, all previous rumours about a Fallout 3 refresh have pointed to the new project being a remaster, much like Oblivion Remastered.
We already know Bethesda is open to outsourcing remasters of their properties to external studios. After all, Last year’s Oblivion Remastered, which shadow-dropped in April 2025, was co-developed by Virtuos Games, a Singapore company that specialises in remakes and remasters. Some have speculated that Virtuos may also be leading development on the rumoured Fallout 3 remaster.
