Fallout Day Watch: Is Bethesda About to Reveal Fallout 3 and New Vegas Remasters?
Temper expectations: Fallout Day 2025 on October 23 is unlikely to bring Fallout 3 or New Vegas remasters, as leaker NateTheHate says it’s still too early for Bethesda to unveil them.
If you were banking on Bethesda rolling out remasters of Fallout 3 or New Vegas during this year’s Fallout Day stream, dial it back. The noise right now says: not yet.
So, what’s actually happening on Fallout Day?
Fallout Day 2025 is locked for October 23, 2025, starting at 10 AM PDT. Expect a franchise check-in more than a fireworks show. The safe bets are updates on Fallout 76, a live-service game that keeps quietly doing numbers, plus a peek at Fallout Season 2. If we get anything about remasters, it will likely be vague teases rather than a full reveal.
Why your remaster dreams are probably on ice
According to leaker NateTheHate, it’s still too early for Bethesda to unveil Fallout 3 or New Vegas remasters at the event. VGC’s Jordan Miller has also cautioned that, while multiple Fallout projects have been floating around the rumor mill, we’re not close to playing them.
Part of why fans got hyped in the first place: chatter around a New Vegas remaster picked up after Oblivion Remastered reportedly got shadow-dropped this year and sold like crazy. That set a tempting template: surprise release, instant cash. But this has not been a normal year. Microsoft’s major layoffs have inevitably slowed pipelines, which can knock schedules for anything that isn’t already locked and loaded.
The Fallout 3 wildcard
Fallout 3 Remastered leaked around the same time as those Oblivion rumblings, which led some folks to think it could land within months. Maybe. But treat that as wishcasting for now. If Bethesda does choose to acknowledge a remaster in development during the stream, Fallout 3 feels like the most likely candidate. It’s just as possible they say nothing and keep the shadow-drop playbook in their pocket.
Worth noting: interest skews heavier toward a New Vegas remaster. Bethesda surely sees that. Whether they act on it now is another story.
What we might actually see on the stream
- Fallout Season 2: early footage or a fresh tease, with the show scheduled for December 17, 2025
- Fallout 76: new content or roadmaps for a live-service that keeps chugging along
- Remasters: at best, a hint that something is cooking; at worst (and more likely), radio silence
The New Vegas timing argument
On the TV side, Season 1 landed well and effectively cemented New Vegas as canon in the broader franchise story. With Season 2 arriving December 17, 2025, pairing the show with a modernized New Vegas would be the cleanest layup imaginable. The original still rules, but it’s dated, and polished remasters have been a license to print money lately. If Bethesda misses that synergy window, that’s a head-scratcher.
One more curveball: Switch 2 hopes
Some fans are also crossing their fingers for Fallout 4 on Nintendo’s next console. Nintendo has been unusually active with third-party drops in 2025, so the idea isn’t wild. It’s just unconfirmed, like most of this conversation.
The bottom line
Remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas are probably real in some form, just not ripe for a big reveal on October 23. Expect a steady franchise update, not a megaton. If Bethesda wants to wow people, a shadow drop worked once already this year. If they want to play it safe, they will keep teasing and let the TV show do the heavy lifting until the games are truly ready.