Bethesda teases new 'Fallout' game

Here's one less surprise for this month's Electronic Entertainment Expo: Bethesda has officially confirmed a new Fallout game.

The video game publisher launched a teaser site Tuesday with a countdown and message reading "Please Stand By." Details of the new game, presumably titled Fallout 4, will be unveiled Wednesday.

The site lists Bethesda Game Studios as the developer. The studio worked on the 2008 hit Fallout 3 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A follow-up titled Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Games, launched in 2010.

Hype for a potential Fallout sequel started months ago when Bethesda Softworks announced it would host a rare press event the Sunday before June's E3 expo in Los Angeles.

Fallout 3 stars a resident of Vault 101, an underground utopia set in the 1950s that housed a handful of Washington, D.C., residents that survived nuclear war. Upon learning your father has disappeared, players help their character out of the vault and into a nuclear wasteland.

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