As reported by GamesIndustry, per data from Sensor Tower, Fallout Shelter has seen a significant uptick of late in terms of both downloads and the revenue it’s generating on mobile devices. From April 9 (a day before the Amazon series premiered) to April 13, the game’s downloads were up by 346.6 percent, from under 15,000 downloads per day to over 60,000. Meanwhile, revenue has also climbed, shooting up by 232.4 percent within the same period, starting out at under $20,000 per day to nearly $80,000.

Interestingly enough, following the Amazon series’ premiere, Fallout Shelter also climbed to No. 7 in the charts for top free games on the iOS App Store in the US, the highest it’s climbed since June 2018.

Recently, Fallout 76 also hit its highest ever concurrent users peak on Steam, while Fallout 4 and Fallout: New Vegas have also seen significant boosts in player activity.

Fallout 4 is also set to receive its long-awaited Next-Gen Update on April 25, accompanied by full optimization for the Steam Deck.

Remember the story that Westworld Mobile, the mobile game based on the popular HBO show, apparently had some code wholesale that was in Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter, owing to the two games at least partially having shared developers? Remember the news that Bethesda was suing said developers (Behaviour Interactive) and Warner Bros. as a result?

If you were wondering what came of that (and I know you weren’t), well, here’s what: the suit, much like most similar lawsuits, has been settled out of court, Bethesda and Behaviour Interactive announced in a joint statement today. The exact terms of the settlement were not disclosed (they almost never are), but the reasonable assumption is Bethesda was paid a fair bit of money, and/or royalties from Westworld Mobile, which made pursuing legal action financially unattractive as a result in comparison.

But yes, in the end, this is presumably the last we will hear of this. Westworld Mobile is out now on iOS and Android; Fallout Shelter is out on iOS, Android, PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.

Despite launching in 2015 and sort of playing second fiddle to the announcement of Fallout 4, Bethesda’s free to play Fallout Shelter has still been going strong. Even though all updates and changes have been made free, the company is making some pretty good money off of microtransactions.

In a new report by SensorTower, it’s been revealed that Fallout Shelter has earned $93 million from its Lunch Boxes and other items. This is on iOS and Google Play, with the game also available on Xbox One, PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. You can bet that the estimated amount of revenue across all platforms is much higher.

It was also revealed that $212,000 revenue was earned from microtransactions on June 15th 2018, surpassing the previous record (roughly $237,000 on September 14th 2015). Google Play users account for 51 percent of revenue, while iOS accounts for 49 percent (obviously). Interestingly, 59 percent of revenue has come from the United States, indicating the title’s staying power even with numerous other high profile releases having comes since its own launch.

Bethesda Game Studios led many fans by the hand as it announced long-awaited titles like Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6. The problem is that those games are out in the far future- even if Starfield could have a current gen release. This year, we’ll have to remain content with Fallout 76, which takes the post-apocalyptic survival gameplay into an online setting.

It’s not like Bethesda hasn’t prepared for the reaction that Fallout 76 has received. However, while it’s going for a games-as-a-service model, which includes free DLC and updates funded by microtransactions, director Todd Howard wants to remind everyone that this isn’t the future of Bethesda.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz Howard said, “It doesn’t mark the future. Corporately we’ve done a mix—people forget sometimes. Elder Scrolls Online is one of the biggest online games in the world, we have Fallout Shelter which we keep updating, and Elder Scrolls: Legends.”

“Anyone who has ever said ‘this is the future and this part of gaming is dead’ has been proven wrong every single time,” he continued. “We like to try it all. For a long time we wanted to try a multiplayer game and we had this idea. We shouldn’t be afraid. We should try it.”

Bethesda’s commitment to single-player titles has been clear, as evidenced by RAGE 2 and Wolfenstein: Youngblood (which can also be played co-op) releasing in 2019, while DOOM: Eternal is also in development. Fallout 76 will have a pretty strong focus in the coming years, but traditional open-world Bethesda games are also on the way. Besides, Fallout 76 will also have single-player servers after launch, if that’s any consolation.

Fallout 76 releases on November 14th for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

Bethesda filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and Behaviour Interactive a few days ago, over the new Westworld mobile game that the latter two had launched recently. The Westworld game bears a lot of extreme similarities to Fallout Shelter, the mobile Fallout game that Bethesda launched back in 2015, but that much makes sense- given that the two games are in the same genre, by the same developer.

However, Bethesda’s lawsuit alleges there are similarities beyond just that- Bethesda says that the Westworld mobile game outright has the same code that Fallout Shelter used, because Westworld apparently has the exact same bugs that an earlier build of Fallout did. Which in and of itself would be a petty damning and conclusive bit of evidence.

Warner Bros. disagrees, however, and in a statement, they have sharply rebuked all allegations in Bethesda’s suit. “As one of the world’s leading creators of intellectual property, including the ground-breaking television series Westworld, Warner Bros. has a deep respect for intellectual property rights,” the statement reads. “As such, the assertions by Bethesda Softworks that Warner’s Westworld mobile game improperly used source code from Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter are as surprising as they are unsubstantiated.  Warner Bros. has been assured by the game developer, Behaviour Interactive, that Bethesda’s allegations are untrue and that none of Bethesda’s code was used in the Westworld game. Moreover, contrary to Bethesda’s baseless accusation, Warner Bros. at no time “induced” Behaviour to use the Fallout Shelter code in Westworld.”

So- either Bethesda jumped the gun here, or Warner Bros. is lying. In either case, I have to imagine this is not a case that will actually go through the courts- I imagine a full fledged out of court settlement between the two parties may be in the cards for this one. Fallout Shelter is available now on mobile, PC, and consoles, and Westworld on mobile devices.

Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter, their first mobile game, which released back in 2015, was actually developed by studio Behaviour Interactive, a studio that went on to make a new Westworld mobile game for Warner Bros., which just came out. The Westworld mobile game, based on the HBO hit series of the same name, bears more than a passing resemblance to Fallout Shelter in terms of its gameplay loop, which sees you oversee a theme park you have to manage, with a similar UI and art style as Fallout Shelter‘s vault management.

But you know what, those kinds of similarities are common between two games in the same genre- even more so when those two games are by the same developer, right? What’s not common is outright code from one of the games ending up in another, to the extent that even the bugs of one of the games are recreated wholly in the other game. And yet, hilariously enough, that is exactly what has happened here.

Bethesda is pointing out that the same bugs that were in an early version of Fallout Shelter are also in Westworld, implying that the exact same code may have been used wholesale in the new game. Which, you know… that code was Bethesda’s property, that Behaviour has now taken without its permission. And Bethesda is not happy about that.

TMZ reports that Bethesda is suing Warner Bros. and Behaviour Interactive, the developer of the game. Depending on how strong Bethesda’s case is, this could get messy for Warner and Behaviour.

Meanwhile, in other news, Fallout Shelter recently came out on Nintendo Switch and PS4- maybe go check it out there?

Bethesda’s super popular, superhit mobile game spinoff of the Fallout series, Fallout Shelter, will be coming to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, Bethesda’s Todd Howard confirmed on stage tonight (it has already been available on Xbox One for a while). The free to play game, which sees you tasked with running your own vault, managing its residents, is the perfect fit especially for something like the Switch, on which you can play the game with Joycons or the touch screen. On the other hand, the PS4 version will have Trophies, so there is that to consider.

The best part is, the game will be available on both systems tonight, so you don’t actually have to wait for it or anything. Fallout Shelter does have microtransactions, but they are entirely inessential, and it is fully possible to play through the game without ever spending a single dime on it.

If you don’t want to play on PS4 or Switch, Fallout Shelter is already available on iOS, Android, Windows and Steam, as well as on Xbox One.

If you were mildly intrigued/disappointed by the reveal of Bethesda’s Fallout 76, then don’t worry. The company may possibly have another Fallout that will be heading to PS4. Sadly, it appears to be Fallout Shelter, the free to play Vault managing simulator that released on mobiles in 2015 before heading to PC in 2016 and Xbox One in 2017.

Trophies for a supposed PlayStation 4 version have emerged courtesy of Exophase, ranging from the bog-standard “Collect 1000 caps” to leveling up Dwellers to 50. While we don’t believe that Fallout Shelter on PS4 is one of the “surprises” that Bethesda’s Pete Hines was teasing for E3, an announcement will likely be coming.

Fallout Shelter has seen a number of updates over the years and for a Vault manager, it’s not the worst mobile game out there. What unique features could there be in the PS4 version? That remains to be seen. Bethesda’s E3 2018 presser takes place on June 10th at 6:30 PM PT. Expect to see more Fallout 76, RAGE 2 and whatever else Bethesda’s studios are working on.

Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout Shelter has been out on Android and iOS since 2015 before finally making its way to Xbox One and Windows 10 in 2017. Of course, it’s still missing on the PS4 and many have wondered whether Bethesda will take the plunge anytime soon.

Pete Hines, VP of PR and marketing, has addressed the numerous tweets from a fan asking if Fallout Shelter would be releasing on the PS4. “In general, we never talk about whether we will or won’t do games/platform/etc. If it isn’t announced, we don’t talk about it, either way.”

Furthermore, Hines said that responding in such situations can lead to unintended consequences down the line. “Sorry, but that opens up a can of worms where everyone asks about every single possible project or game because they expect an answer.”

Do you want to see Fallout Shelter on the PS4 anytime soon? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

In 2015, Bethesda released two Fallout games, Fallout 4, the one that everyone had thought they wanted, and Fallout Shelter, a delightful mobile game spin off that tasked players with managing their own Vault-Tec vault. Now, they have decided to bring the better one of those two to Steam- Fallout Shelter is available to download on Steam today.

Fallout Shelter is basically a management sim- you build facilities in your vault, you assign your vault dwellers to them, you try to maximize happiness, you try to keep your vault safe from raiders, you send vault dwellers out into the wasteland to gather materials, and so on. It’s really addictive, and Bethesda has continued adding content to it since its launch.

The game was originally released on iOS and Android, but was then released on Xbox one and Windows 10; now it’s available on Steam, too. It’s free to play as well, so you have nothing to lose. Go give it a shot.