Fallout 3 – still less bleak and depressing than EastEnders

Bethesda has been caught trademarking the rights to make a post-apocalyptic television show, although there’s doubt as to what exactly that implies.

You can read the U.S. patent here, and it’s a pretty unambiguous one for ‘entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program set in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world’.

Considering this is Bethesda the obvious assumption is that it’s referring to a TV show based on the Fallout series (or, far less likely, iD Software’s Rage). But as many fans have pointed out Bethesda has registered this trademark before, starting in 2009.

As intriguing as a TV show based on the post-apocalyptic role-player may be that means it’s probably more likely that Bethesda are simply making sure no one else can create a Fallout-esque TV show. Which is not to say that they won’t get round to it one day.




There’s no smoke without fire though and this adds to a growing body of evidence that some kind of Fallout announcement is imminent. Especially as that’s exactly what the voice actor for in-game DJ Three Dog recently promised.

The current theory is that Bethesda will announce Fallout 4 on or around E3 in June, and that it will become a launch window title for the next generation console from Microsoft and/or Sony – much as Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was for the Xbox 360.

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