The new Indiana Jones game is something of a passion project for Todd Howard, who has reportedly spent years trying to get the game made.
Ahead of the game's announcement in January 2021, Bethesda head of publishing Pete Hines discussed the project in an internal email shared as part of the FTC court case into the Xbox Activision deal. In that message, Hines noted that Todd Howard, who is executive producing the project, "has been trying to get this game made for over a decade."
