‘Fallout’ Video Game Boss Says ‘We’re Writing Season 3’ of Amazon TV Series Now, Planning More In-Game Storylines

As a holiday season treat, “Fallout” fans will get to head to New Vegas sooner than expected with Tuesday’s early release of the second season of the Amazon TV series. But the 24-hour shift up for the premiere episode featuring the adventures of Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) in the Wasteland is not the only shock viewers will get from Season 2 of the video game adaptation.

“There’s a lot of surprises,” Todd Howard, director at “Fallout” game developer Bethesda Game Studios and executive producer on the TV series, told Variety. “So the main thing is, we’re dropping an episode every week, so I would just say, stick with it. There’s a lot of surprises, and I’m curious to see how it plays for everybody, because it’s gonna be a weekly show now, as opposed to a binge-watch all at once.”

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Howard says the shift to a weekly release model for “Fallout” Season 2 will change how the viewers consume the series, but “it didn’t affect the story we were telling.” And that will go for Season 3 as well, which Howard says is currently in the writing stage.

While Jonathan Nolan and the “Fallout” writers’ room handle that part, Howard says they are in conversations with the game studio about ways to bring the TV show’s storylines into the “Fallout” video game franchise, just like they did with the “Burning Springs” game update in “Fallout 76” tied to “Fallout” Season 2.

“For us on the game and TV show side, we’re writing Season 3 now,” Howard said. “We’re having those conversations now of, what are we doing in Season 3 for the TV show and what elements can we bring into our games at that time when it comes out that don’t feel forced or fake.”

Also new for “Fallout” Season 2, Amazon Prime Video and Bethesda have partnered with Samsung to bring the first season of the show and access to “Fallout 76” via Xbox Game Pass to Samsung TV Plus owners. Samsung hopes to continue the deal for future seasons, as it looks to build out its own gaming business by tying itself to one of the biggest game-to-screen adaptations.

“I think we’re extremely fortunate that we were able to get all of Season 1 available to be streamed on Samsung TV Plus,” Kevin Beatty, head of product for Samsung Gaming, Interactive Experiences, and Emerging Tech, told Variety. “I would hope that we’re able to stream Season 2 sometime in the near future. But that’s the unique thing about us, is that we are a platform where these are our close partners. We are promoting the content regardless of if we have Season 2. And how do we reduce user friction? How do we get someone to be able to watch this season as fast as humanly possible? And we’re going to be promoting it front and center.”