Image: Amazon Prime Video
It looks like the Fallout series will feature a Pip-Boy, too.
Amazon Prime Video has released a teaser for its upcoming live-action TV adaptation of Fallout, revealing the series’ release date: April 12, 2024. The show’s official Twitter/X account also sprang to life for this announcement with a bio that now reads, “Prepare for the future! Come for the apocalypse, stay for the Fallout - April 12, 2024 only on @primevideo.”
The Fallout TV series probably has Pip-Boys in spades
In a move to likely ramp up marketing for the show, Amazon has dropped a teaser themed after Fallout’s Pip-Boy - an in-game retro handheld gadget that players use to inspect their inventories, look at maps and more often than not, put the radio on while adventuring in the apocalypse. The 8-bit visuals see Vault-Boy introduce the show’s release date - April 12, 2024 - while the social media post urges viewers to ‘remain calm’.
Fallout is being developed by Amazon in partnership with Bethesda Game Studios, the developer currently in charge of the titular game franchise. While recent Fallout entries have taken players to locations across America, from Appalachia to Boston, this series takes place in Los Angeles. Players haven’t been able to check out this universe’s post-apocalyptic version of the City of Angels since the very first Fallout game.
The series takes on a familiar premise: after a nuclear apocalypse occurs in a 1950s-esque retrofuturistic world, a select few groups of survivors are kept safe in various vaults located across America. Long after the nuclear war, the inhabitants of Vault 33 are finally let free in a now-broken, irradiated world. The series was created by Westworld makers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, and stars Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan, Ella Purnell and Mike Doyle among others.
An earlier teaser from Gamescom leaked online a while back, giving us our best look at the show yet:
