References to ‘newvegas2’ appear in Fallout 4 Steam repo

Fallout 4 briefly got a branch on Steam called ‘newvegas2’. Within a short time, Bethesda removed the branch again. Fallout: New Vegas 2 has not been announced, but it is known that a next-gen update to Fallout 4 is in the works.

Interested players speculate that the branch has to do with a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas in Fallout 4’s engine, which is actually what the mod team behind Fallout 4: New Vegas is creating. Another potential explanation is a sequel to Fallout: New Vegas, as New Vegas 2 would be a fairly logical name for it. Perhaps it is much less exciting, because there all New Vegas content is in Bethesda’s Fallout 4 mod store.

The contents of the branch apparently have not become public. SteamDB, where the information is seen, gets its information by scraping Steam’s databases and from voluntarily uploaded information retrieved with a token dumper.

It is not the first time that there have been rumors about a new development in the field of Fallout: New Vegas. In February of this year, Jeff Grubb, a well-known gaming leaker, reported that discussions about New Vegas 2 were underway between Bethesda and Obsidian Entertainment. The latter party is also the original developer of the game. Obsidian boss Feargus Urquhart previously stated that he would like to make another Fallout.

Fallout: New Vegas is a first-person action RPG developed by Obsidian Entertainment, which was founded by veterans of the original Fallout developer, Black Isle Studios. The game has the same style as Fallout 3 and 4, but takes place in the state of Nevada. The game dates from 2010 and was released for Windows, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.