After several national magazines quoted his articles on 'the exciting prospects for cabled distribution systems'. After finishing graduate school, he was hired by the American Broadcasting Company, where he wrote several memos about 'the importance of alternative distribution systems and how satellites and broadband networks would impact network television', which landed him the position of manager of technology forecasting. Prior to founding Bethesda Softworks, Christopher Weaver was a technology forecaster and a communications engineer in the television and cable industries. History 1980s Bethesda Softworks' original logo, 1986 In 2021, Microsoft purchased ZeniMax, maintaining that the company will continue to operate as a separate business.

In 2001, Bethesda spun off its own in-house development team into Bethesda Game Studios, and Bethesda Softworks retained only its publishing function. In its first 15 years, it was a video game developer and self-published its titles.

In 1999, it became a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media.

The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited. Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland.

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