Fallout

Though the next game in the series is a very long way away, with the lack of an Elder Scrolls VI release likely pushing Fallout 5 into the 2030s, we can speculate on where it might go next. California is and always will be a strong candidate, but there have been plenty of calls for New Orleans, New York, or even somewhere outside the United States.

Two things are happening at once. First, Gaming Heads' original Nuka Girl run sold out in 2020 and has bounced around the secondary market ever since at two-to-three times retail. A freshly authorized re-issue with the same sculpt, a new lighting variant, and capped allocation is exactly the kind of restock collectors plan around. Second, the Fallout brand is in the middle of an unusually long pop-culture tail. Amazon's Fallout TV series renewed the franchise's mainstream relevance in 2024, Fallout 76 has retained players at a clip nobody at Bethesda predicted and the next mainline entry remai