Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas is an upcoming game announced by Bethesda Softworks on April 20, 2009 at its London showcase. While New Vegas is not a direct sequel, it will use the same engine and be in the same style as Fallout 3 and will be developed by Obsidian Entertainment, a company founded by developers who left Black Isle Studios. Based on the title, it will be set in Las Vegas. It has a projected release date of 2010 and will be available on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Setting
The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world following The Great War between the US and China, a conventional and nuclear war that occurred on October 23, 2077 and lasted less than two hours despite causing immense damage and destruction. Before The Great War were the Resource Wars, during which the United Nations disbanded, a plague rendered the United States paranoid, and Canada was annexed.

Story
The game will probably take place in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, which was previously only mentioned in the first Fallout. The story will not be related in any way to the one in Fallout 3.

Developers
Fallout: New Vegas is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment, a company founded by Feargus Urquhart and Chris Avellone, two of the makers of Fallout 2 (originally at Black Isle Studios). It is not currently known whether Avellone and Urquhart will be involved. The entire development team is not yet known, but it is known that the project is led by J.E. Sawyer, one of the lead designers of Van Buren, the canceled Fallout 3 project by Black Isle Studios.

Known developers:
 * J.E. Sawyer - project director and lead designer
 * John R. Gonzalez - lead creative designer
 * Akil Hooper - designer
 * Scott Everts - designer
 * Eric Fenstermaker - designer
 * Fryda Wolff - sound designer
 * Theresa Treadwell - associate producer
 * Brian Menze - artist
 * Sean Dunny - artist
 * Chris Tencati - gameplay programmer

Other people at Obsidian who worked on previous Fallout games include Chris Jones, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan and Jesse Reynolds. At least some of them are likely to be on the New Vegas team.