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Fallout Shelter is available on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch for free — tonight

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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More than 120 million people have played Fallout Shelter, the mobile game created by Bethesda as part of its Fallout post-apocalypse franchise. And tonight, Bethesda Game Studios said it has published Fallout Shelter on the PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo Switch. The game is available for free, and it will presumably have in-app items you can purchase with real money.

Todd Howard, the head of Bethesda Game Studios, made the announcement at the Bethesda Showcase event ahead of the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.