Sit down, Wastelanders, because this one hurts. According to a report from GamesRadar, a senior Obsidian designer has confirmed that Fallout: New Vegas 2 was at one point an actual, breathing plan - before those plans, quote, "quickly evaporated." So yes, it was real. And yes, it died. Pour one out for the Mojave.
The unnamed designer didn't go into the full gory details of why the project fizzled out, but the implication is pretty clear: between Microsoft acquiring Bethesda, the complicated licensing situation around the Fallout IP, and Obsidian's own packed roadmap, New Vegas 2 basically got a critical miss on its survival check and bled out on the floor.
Don't hold your breath, smoothskin
If you were hoping to reload your save and try again for a better outcome, bad news - the designer was refreshingly blunt about the revival prospects, stating it "will not happen in the next six years at least, if ever." Six years. That's roughly four Starfield expansions nobody asked for and at least two Elder Scrolls 6 delay announcements from now.
The timing is particularly spicy given the massive boost the Fallout franchise got from the Amazon Prime TV show, which sent player counts through the Vault roof and had everyone dusting off their Pip-Boys. You'd think that was the perfect moment to greenlight a New Vegas follow-up, but apparently the business logic here is operating on a difficulty setting the rest of us can't access.
The legacy haunts on
New Vegas, developed by Obsidian in a famously crunched 18-month window back in 2010, remains arguably the gold standard of the Fallout series - a fact that makes this news sting just a little harder. The game's reputation has only grown with time, and its fanbase is the kind of loyal that makes MMO guilds look flaky by comparison.
For now, New Vegas 2 joins the ever-crowded Hall of Almost: games that existed in someone's Google Doc, got someone excited, and then respawned as pure heartbreak. GamesRadar has the full breakdown if you want to read every painful detail and really commit to the grief.
