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Bethesda Game Studios
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Websitebethesdagamestudios.com

Bethesda Game Studios is an American

studio director Angela Browder. As of November 2023, Bethesda Game Studios had 450 employees.[1]

History

Bethesda Game Studios was established in 2001. Previously, Bethesda Softworks, then a developer and publisher, had been reorganized as a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media. ZeniMax's Robert A. Altman sought to grow the development unit, which was spun off from Bethesda Softworks as Bethesda Game Studios, starting out with roughly 40 people.[2][3]

By 2008, Bethesda Game Studios was considered one of the industry's top developers on the reputation of

Gamasutra in their year-end best-of list.[4]

In December 2015, Bethesda Game Studios opened a satellite studio in

Escalation Studios was turned into Bethesda Game Studios Dallas in August.[6][7] Microsoft acquired ZeniMax in March 2021.[8][9]

Technology

Main article: Creation Engine

Satellite studios

Bethesda Game Studios Austin

ZeniMax Media announced the opening of BattleCry Studios in Austin, Texas, on October 3, 2012, with Rich Vogel as its president.[10] The studio immediately began hiring developers with experience in microtransactions and free-to-play games, growing to roughly 35 employees by November 2013.[11][12] It announced its first project, the multiplayer combat game BattleCry, in May 2014.[13] However, the studio laid off a significant portion of its staff in September 2015, followed by the cancellation of BattleCry in October to focus on different projects.[14][15] Among these projects, it was tasked with modifying Bethesda Game Studios's Creation Engine to support multiplayer functionality for Fallout 76, working with another sister studio, id Software, and repurposed some netcode from Quake.[16] BattleCry Studios then assisted Bethesda Game Studios on the game itself and in August 2016 replaced Certain Affinity in assisting id Software to develop multiplayer components for Doom.[17][18] Vogel left BattleCry Studios by September 2017 to join Certain Affinity.[19] In March 2018, BattleCry Studios, now under studio director Doug Mellencamp, was integrated into Bethesda Game Studios and renamed Bethesda Game Studios Austin.[20]

Bethesda Game Studios Dallas

Tom Mustaine, Marc Tardif, and

6waves Lolapps (6L) announced its acquisition of the studio on undisclosed terms.[22][25] Mustaine and Tardif became Escalation Studios's design directors, while Green acceded to 6L as its director of engineering.[22] At the time, Escalation had around 30 employees.[26] However, in March 2012, 6L announced it was laying off all of its development staff, keeping Escalation Studios active "in some capacity".[27] The studio spun off from 6L by May 2012.[28] ZeniMax Media then acquired it on February 1, 2017.[21][23] In August 2018, it was integrated with Bethesda Game Studios and renamed Bethesda Game Studios Dallas.[29] It immediately began assisting the studio on Starfield.[30]

Bethesda Game Studios Montreal

Bethesda Game Studios announced the opening of a Montreal, Canada, office on December 9, 2015. At the time of the announcement, the studio employed 40 developers under studio director Yves Lachance.[31][32] Bethesda Game Studios had previously worked with Lachance on several projects while he was at Behaviour Interactive, including Fallout Shelter, which Bethesda Game Studios Montreal immediately took over.[31][33]

Games developed

Bethesda Game Studios has principally been involved in the development of role-playing video games with their The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series for consoles and personal computers, most of which have been commercially and critically successful.[34][35]

In 2015, the studio entered into the

mobile gaming market with Fallout Shelter based on the same franchise, which gained 50 million players by mid-2016. In February 2017, Howard said that they are in development of another mobile title following onto the success of Fallout Shelter.[36] This was revealed in 2018 to be The Elder Scrolls: Blades
.

In 2016, Howard confirmed that while they are developing

Xbox Series X/S. Starfield released on September 6, 2023.[39][40] On June 14, 2022, Howard confirmed that Fallout 5 would start development after the completion of The Elder Scrolls VI, with the latter currently in the pre-production phase of development.[41]

Year Title Platform(s)
2002 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Windows, Xbox
2004 IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005 PlayStation 2, Xbox
2006 IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360
2008 Fallout 3
2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Xbox Series X/S
2015 Fallout Shelter Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
Fallout 4 PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
2016
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Special Edition
 		Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
2017
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
 		PlayStation 4, Windows
Fallout 4 VR
 		Windows
2018 Fallout 76 PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
2020 The Elder Scrolls: Blades Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch[42]
2023 The Elder Scrolls: Castles Android[43]
Starfield Windows, Xbox Series X/S
TBA The Elder Scrolls VI TBA

Expansion packs

Year Title Game Platform(s)
2002 Tribunal The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Windows, Xbox
2003 Bloodmoon
2006 Knights of the Nine The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360
2007 Shivering Isles
2009
Operation: Anchorage
 		Fallout 3
The Pitt
Broken Steel
Point Lookout
Mothership Zeta
2012 Dawnguard The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Hearthfire
Dragonborn
2016
Automatron
 		Fallout 4 PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
Wasteland Workshop
Far Harbor
Contraptions Workshop
Vault-Tec Workshop
Nuka-World
2020 The Pitt[44] Fallout 76
Steel Reign[45]
Steel Dawn[46]
Wastelanders[47]
TBA Shattered Space Starfield Windows,
Xbox Series X/S

Awards

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External links
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