Accidents happen to the best of us. Like the day we spilt coffee all over our desk. Or that time we didn't properly press record when interviewing a developer who we're not going to name. Or when the team over at Walmart went and leaked the whole of E3 a couple of weeks ago. The latest accident by a retailer (if, indeed, that's what this is) comes from Amazon and it concerns Fallout 76.
In fairness, this one might just be a simple error. The site briefly listed the next game from Bethesda Game Studios with a release date of July 31. This date was spotted by MassivelyOP before it was switched for everybody's favourite placeholder launch date: December 31, 2019.
The question that Fallout fans are therefore asking is whether the July date was another placeholder, or if it's actually when fans can expect to get their hands on the game.
Others have pointed to the historical late-year releases of previous Fallout titles as evidence against, but if the game is indeed coming out this year and not next then it wouldn't be a surprise to see it land a bit earlier, and no doubt a number of publishers are tweaking their launch plans as they look to side-step the October release of Red Dead Redemption 2.
We're just guessing at this point, but with Bethesda hosting its own conference during E3 next week there's every chance that clarity is about to emerge from the publisher's vault of secrets, blinking in the harshness of the LA sunshine.