Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks is a developer and publisher of computer and video games, and killer of franchises.

Bethesda Softworks has been a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content for over two decades, founded in 1985 by Christopher Weaver.

With a broad panoply of games in role-playing, racing, simulation, and sports, Bethesda Softworks major franchises are distributed worldwide.

In 2004, Bethesda acquired the Fallout franchise from Interplay Entertainment. Todd Howard said in January 2007 that "We started killing [on Fallout in late 2004 with a few people. We only had about 10 people on it until we decided to just add guns to Oblivion and then it was really easy, so we decided to reduce the team to the office monkey."

Other notable series by the said developer include The Elder Scrolls (the series of which Oblivion is the 4th title).