Starfield lead Todd Howard has sent a heartfelt congratulations to the entire team at Xbox and Bethesda on the eve of the game's Early Access launch.
In the internal memo (obtained and published by Windows Central), Howard tells the story of pitching the game to the late ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman. "It was early 2013, we were developing Fallout 4, and Skyrim was still enjoying enormous success," Howard writes. "I was there to pitch him on our next game. It would not be a sequel to our current games, (he looked concerned), but a grand space RPG and our first new IP in over 25 years (looks curious). It would delve into creation and the search for our place in the universe (slight twinkle). You would explore the galaxy in ways only video games can do. And it would be called - Starfield. (Smile)"
