Bethesda Softworks is an American video game developer best known for their The Elder Scrolls role-playing series, and first-person continuations of the Fallout series from Interplay Entertainment. In the 1990s they held the license for The Terminator franchise, and developed the XnGine game engine. Parent company ZeniMax Media purchased id Software in 2009, with their later games subsequently published under the Bethesda label. ZeniMax was purchased by Microsoft under Xbox Game Studios and now Microsoft Gaming (who also owns Activision and thus Raven Software as of 2023). Bethesda had taken over the Star Trek license from Activision in the mid-2000s, previously of MicroProse and Interplay.
Games[]
- The Terminator (1990)
- The Terminator 2029 (1992)
- The Terminator: Rampage (1993)
- The Terminator: Future Shock (1995)
- The Terminator: Skynet (1996)
Even prior to its acquisition of studios id Software, Arkane Studios, and MachineGames, Bethesda would publish a few more first-person shooters such as the survival horror title Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth in 2005, as well as Wet and Rogue Warrior in 2009.