Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas To Get Fall 2010 Release

Bethesda Sofworks says Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout project, New Vegas, will be part of this year's fall lineup, revealing a new teaser trailer [YouTube mirror] for the title along the way. The title will release on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 in 2010, the company announced today. Fallout: New Vegas is intended as a follow-up to 2008's critically-acclaimed Fallout 3, and sets players in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. Bethesda first announced the project in 2009, and while few details were revealed, the company's Pete Hines did stress Fallout: New Vegas was neither a direct sequel nor a spin-off to Fallout 3. "It's not Fallout Tactics -- it's not Brotherhood Of Steel. It's another Fallout game," Hines said at the time. "It has no impact on what [Bethesda Game Studios game director] Todd Howard and his guys are planning." A number of Obsidian staff are veterans of Black Isle's original Fallout games. The company's CEO, Feargus Urquhart, was instrumental in founding Black Isle, and served as its director.