Emil Pagliarulo is a video game designer working for Bethesda Softworks since 2002. He previously worked for Looking Glass Studios and Ion Storm Austin. He is best known for being the lead designer and the lead writer of Fallout 3, for which he received the Best Writing award at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards. He is also credited as a senior designer and writer of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. He is now working on Fallout 4.