Irrational Games has kicked off a new "Irrational Interviews" series, with their first guest being Bethesda Softworks' Todd Howard. Within the nearly 44-minute audio interview, Ken Levine chats with him about the days when Bethesda was thinking about publishing Freedom Force, the way console games have to be constructed in order to deal with impatient gamers, why fantasy and science fiction dominate the video game world, how other genres continue to integrate RPG elements, and much more.