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Bethesda.net is down following the announcement of a beta for the upcoming Fallout 76.

The site is currently down after the servers crashed when people around the world all tried to sign up to the beta at the same time.

The test, which Bethesda's Todd Howard called a Break-it Early Test Application, is due to go live later this year - and fans were encouraged to sign up now ahead of the launch.

There is currently no word on when the site will go back online.

No release date for the Beta has been announced to date, but it's certainly later this year.

When the site is working, you can sign into the beta registration here.

Release Date: 14 November 2018Developer: BethesdaPublisher: BethesdaPlatforms: PS4, Xbox One, PCGenre: TBD

Fallout 76 will tell the tale of Vault 76. It's being put together by Bethesda Game Studios, the Maryland-based developer responsible for the Elder Scrolls series, Fallout 3 and Fallout 4.

We've seen references in Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 to Vault 76, so it seems that the game will take us there and explore its back-story.

Vault 76 was occupied by a control group of 500 people, and was tasked with repopulating the world in the event of a nuclear Armageddon. The game - if a Pip-Boy in the trailer is anything to go by - will be set in 2102 (much earlier than any previous Fallout game - Fallout 4 was set in 2287).

The same Pip-Boy reveals a date of October 27, too - which is potentially when we could see the game release (that would be in line with other Fallout release dates).