American video game developer and publisher Bethesda Softworks is best known for its gritty, narrative-driven and critically acclaimed role-playing series, Fallout and The Elder Scrolls. As a publisher it is involved in several major game titles from innovative studios, most notably Arkane Studios’ Dishonored and Deathlooptitles, and id Software’s Doom and Wolfenstein games. The company is based in Rockville, Maryland, USA, having been founded in Bethesda, Maryland back in 1986.