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Here’s what you better know about Fallout 5.

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What is Fallout 5?

Best answer: Fallout 5 is the next mainline Fallout game developed by Bethesda Game Studios.

Bethesda Game Studios previously developed Fallout Shelter (another mobile spinoff) and released it in 2015.

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Fallout: New Vegas, which was developed by Obsidian Entertainment, was released in 2010.

What is Fallout 5’s setting?

Best answer: We don’t know.

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Fallout games usually have different prefs.

This hasn’t always been the case though, particularly with the first couple of games.

The original Fallout is set in Southern California, as was its sequel, Fallout 2.

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Fallout 4 took things back to the East Coast, with players exploring the Commonwealth of Boston.

Fallout 76 kept things on the East Coast, exploring the eclectic wonders and monstrosities of West Virginia.

The excellentFallout TV seriesagain went back to the West Coast, with players seeing former Los Angeles and Hollywood.

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One key thing may help us to guess at where Fallout 5 will take place.

What platforms is Fallout 5 coming to?

Best answer: Fallout 5 will be released on Xbox consoles and Windows PC.

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Is Fallout 5 coming to Xbox Game Pass?

Best answer: Yes, Fallout 5 will launch day one on Xbox Game Pass.

As Bethesda Game Studios is an Xbox first-party developer, Fallout 5 will launch day one intoXbox Game Pass.

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The team’s first game to launch day one in the service was the 2023 science-fiction role-playing gameStarfield.

When is Fallout 5’s release date?

Fallout 5 does not have a release date, or even an expected year that it’ll launch in.

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An extremely rough guess might be that Fallout 5 could arrive in 2033.

This would assume The Elder Scrolls 6 launches in 2028, five years after Starfield.

From there, Fallout 5 could arrive five years after The Elder Scrolls 6.

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In the meantime, all of the Fallout games are currently playable on Windows PC.

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