Fallout fans have been hoping that Bethesda has been secretly working on a New Vegas Remaster. While there have been hints suggesting that there is one in the works, it's mostly been vague and circumstantial. Yet, hope remains that the studio will give the beloved title an Oblivion-style remaster.
However, former New Vegas dev Chris Avellone has warned fans that they shouldn't hold on to hope, as the studio may not have the means to make a New Vegas remaster, even if it wanted to. It seems Obsidian Entertainment never really gave Bethesda the source code it would require to recreate the game with current technology.
In an interview with TKs-Mantis (via GamesRadar), Avellone, who worked on the original game as a senior designer, said, "I don't think Bethesda has the engineering knowhow to make a remaster of New Vegas at all." He revealed that Bethesda apparently asked Obsidian to deliver the source code for the game, but CEO Feargus Urquhart reportedly didn't accept the $10,000 that Bethesda offered.
"They may have aspects of the code," he added, "But everyone that I talked to after that period of time said they had no idea how to reassemble it."...
