UPDATED 18:25 EST / FEBRUARY 18 2016

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Bethesda has three new “longer-term projects” in the works, says Todd Howard

Fallout 4 and Skyrim developer Bethesda Game Studios has always been notoriously tight-lipped about its upcoming titles. In fact, Fallout 4 was not even officially announced until six months before release.

The studio is still keeping quiet on what exactly it is working on, but studio head Todd Howard has revealed that Bethesda is working on not one, not two, but three new games at the moment.

“We are doing three longer-term projects,” Howard told comedian and podcaster Pete Holmes on-stage at DICE Summit 2016 (via GamesBeat). “We’ll talk about them in future. They are different from anything we have done before, while also being a Bethesda-style game.”

While this information is about as vague as it could be, it is also more than the studio is usually willing to reveal, and fans are already running wild with speculation on what the new projects could be and what Howard meant in saying that they are “different from anything we have done before.”

Bethesda Game Studios, at least in its current incarnation, has released only a handful of games: the three most recent Elder Scrolls games (Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim), Fallout 3, and Fallout 4.

In a way, these games can all be as perfecting the concept of the “Bethesda-style game,” which is a free-roaming, nonlinear role-playing game that emphasizes exploration and setting over a driving plotline.

Howard’s tease could suggest that Bethesda is working on an entirely new IP, which would be a first in the studio’s history since it spun off from Bethesda Softworks in 2002.

Screenshot via Bethesda | Twitch

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