Bethesda Game Studios - the developer behind The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series - is making what it describes as a "bleeding-edge AAA freemium game".
A job listing (spotted by NeoGAF user Nirolak) for a game performance manager at the company's Montreal studio reveals little more than that phrase, but confirms that the unannounced game will be taking on a free-to-play business model.
Bethesda president, Todd Howard has previously announced that Bethesda is working on a new, unannounced mobile game. It may be that this freemium game is the same project - however, it's worth noting that other Bethesda Montreal job listings have specifically mentioned working on a mobile title, while this one does not.
Bethesda Montreal was opened in 2015, and has yet to release a game developed wholly in-house. Given the studio's connection to Behaviour Interactive - the developer that assisted Bethesda on Fallout Shelter - it is expected that Montreal is taking the lead on the unannounced mobile game.
Todd Howard has said that Bethesda Game Studios - that's the company's development arm, not its other role as a publisher - has seven projects currently in the works. He has specifically mentioned the new mobile game, Fallout 4 VR, Skyrim for Nintendo Switch, and the (still very far off) Elder Scrolls 6.
That leaves three more in-development titles, two of which Howard has said are "bigger than everything we've done [before]", and will likely arrive before The Elder Scrolls 6.
It's possible, then, that this AAA freemium game is one of those two projects, or is the elusive seventh game that we know precisely nothing about. We have contacted Bethesda for comment.
Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he hopes they're looking at Let It Die. That got freemium and skateboarding skeletons right, and he wants both of them again. Follow him on Twitter.
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