Well, that looks like it could be a Fallout: New Vegas remaster tease from a Fallout 76 support studio

Cue the line enquiring whether that's a punt in the cranium

Have you ever noticed your next company-wide meeting's due and thought the following: 'Oh, we should post an image prominently featuring a screen from a game rumoured to potentially be getting the remake or remaster treatment'? Well, that appears to have been the case for Iron Galaxy Studios, co-developers of Skyrim's Switch port and support studio on Fallout 76. It's a screen from Fallout: New Vegas to boot.

As spotted by GamesRadar, Iron Galaxy's official account on various social media platforms posted an image with the 'Please Stand By' bit of New Vegas' bootup sequence front and centre. "Today’s our February company meeting. It’s time to catch up with what the company’s been up to and what’s coming up next for IG," reads the caption of these posts, which went up on the evening of February 26th.

That doesn't seem designed to tease something teasily at all. Heck, as you can see in the second monitor in the picture, it's just slide number one of 72 in a meeting presentation. Clearly just a means for some exec to tell folks to settle down and crack a joke before getting into all the very engaging numbers chat. As for the Chicago-based studio posting this to all of their socials, there's no way they could have anticipated folks might interpret it as some sort of remaster or remake tease, right? Fallout, of course, is a series renowned for rarely being the topic of speculation.

It's worth noting that - while there's clearly nothing going on here - Iron Galaxy would be the sort of studio that'd seem to make sense to be working on Fallout remasters. In addition to their aforementioned credits on Skyrim and Fallout 76, they've worked on the VR iterations of the fifth Scrolling Elder and Fallout 4. That's in addition to developing the likes of last year's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 and co-developing The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered.

While New Vegas remaster chatter's picked up around the release of the Fallout TV Show's second series, there's arguably been more plentiful smoke around the idea of Fallout 3 getting the remaster treatment to this point, dating all the way back to a Microsoft document leak in 2023. It would be quite funny if Iron Galaxy turned out to have included the wrong 'Please Stand By' screen in this definitely not a teaser.