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![]() We play games on these smartphones all the time. Todd Howard: We’ve had a number of ideas over many years. How did you guys think about that and conceive it? It was something so different for your company. That’s always been interesting to me because we cover more of the different parts of the industry than just hardcore games. GamesBeat: You brought up the mobile game. Here’s an edited transcript of our interview. Howard dropped a hint that the studio is now working on three different projects, including something unexpected. In a few weeks, Howard will receive the lifetime achievement award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in San Francisco. ![]() If anyone can figure it out, Howard should be able to. Bethesda is well aware of the trade-offs between investing in Triple-A games on the consoles and PC and the emerging opportunities in mobile. Howard and I talked about this - and other topics like diversity and open worlds - at the DICE Summit, the elite game industry event, last week in Las Vegas. Should they continue to work on titles like Fallout 4, which took a team of 100 people more than four years to develop before it launched last November? That game just earned a Game of the Year award at the DICE Awards, the Oscars of gaming, and it generated an estimated $750 million in sales. That’s an astonishing result, and it presents high-end game studios, known as Triple-A game makers, with a quandary. But Fallout Shelter, the mobile game released last June during a fan event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, managed to hit more than 12 million downloads in a day, according to Todd Howard, creative director at Bethesda, in an interview with GamesBeat. Apply or nominate today!īethesda Game Studios shipped more than 12 million copies of the post-apocalypse video game Fallout 4 during the holiday season - a stellar achievement. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of "Playing the Edge." Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. ![]()
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