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The Latest Breaking News from Starfield

Bethesda breaks silence as Starfield fans hope for an update: "We have a lot of exciting things planned for the game this year"

Starfield is still very much alive

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Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and BioWare have to offer

Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Starfield came and went—meanwhile, a new breed of RPG dominates the conversation.

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The Elder Scrolls 6 sleuths use Starfield math to narrow down the Skyrim sequel's potential release window, and sorry folks, it's still looking like it's ages away

According to these calculations, we still shouldn't expect the next RPG anytime soon

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Win a chance to see a SpaceX rocket launch thanks to Bethesda, creators of 'Starfield'

Xbox and Bethesda have teamed up with Lonestar to send one 'Starfield' fan to Florida to witness the launch of a historic space mission to the Moon.

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Xbox Game Pass Just Quietly Added The Most Overlooked Sci-Fi RPG of the Decade

Bethesda's latest RPG Starfield is now available to all tiers of Xbox Game Pass.

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Xbox Game Pass is getting Obsidian's Avowed, another EA sports game, and more

Obsidian Entertainment's RPG Avowed, EA's Madden NFL 25, and more games are coming to Xbox Game Pass soon.

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Phil Spencer isn't ruling out Xbox exclusives like Starfield making the jump to other platforms: "There is no reason for me to put a ring fence around any game"

"To keep games off of other platforms, that's not a path for us. It doesn't work for us"

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Bethesda intended Starfield to be more violent, including 'meat caps' for beheaded astronauts, but the gore was toned down for technical reasons and because it 'didn't fit thematically'

"It turned into a big Rat's Nest."

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'I think geniuses come up with terrible ideas, too': Former senior artist at Bethesda likens Todd Howard's struggles with complete creative control to George Lucas

"If you don't have somebody to help you filter through these things and give you an honest assessment, it actually does hurt you."

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Skyrim's iconic opening was done by Starfield's quest lead, but only after he was brutally called out for "everything we're doing wrong" in front of the Bethesda team

Will Shen ended up redoing all his Skyrim work after the "super brutal" callout

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Former Starfield lead quest designer says we're seeing a 'resurgence of short games' because people are 'becoming fatigued' with 100-hour monsters

Will Shen says people already have huge, open-ended games they like, so it's tough for new ones to find room.

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Ex-Starfield lead looks at the open-world game boom and says "you can see Dark Souls and Elden Ring being a secondary trend: let's make third-person action combat really hard"

"Everything became survival crafting because Minecraft became super popular"

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Former Starfield lead says "people are fatigued" with huge games, and "I'm sorry" because "part of what happened is the success of games like Skyrim and Fallout 4"

Will Shen says "before, it was MMOs for that" never-ending experience

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Starfield is surprisingly absent from Steam's 2024 bestsellers list despite taking a top spot in 2023

Steam's "Best of 2024" list runs down the top-selling and most-played games of the year.

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Former Starfield dev says the space RPG "could have existed without those" surplus loading screens, with many added after he left production

A fractured adventure

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After saying Xbox multi-platform game delivery would have "no red lines," Xbox's games chief is now saying they'll go multi-platform on a "game by game basis." Does it make sense?

The big controversy surrounding Xbox pertains to whether or not it plans to keep delivering exclusive games to Xbox customers on console. Microsoft itself doesn't even seem to know yet.

Windows Central

Bethesda's Starfield crosses a new milestone, while the Xbox RPG gets a new feature players have been asking for

A new update for Bethesda's Starfield means certain Creations no longer have to disable Achievements on Xbox and PC.

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After Starfield: Shattered Space's mixed reviews, Todd Howard wondered if Bethesda should "have waited to put buggies out"

Fans wanted "more features" from the expansion

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Microsoft Gaming head honcho Phil Spencer says 'I don't like expansions that are manipulative... like, the third level you cut before you launched'

"Not every [Microsoft] game will do expansions."

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Starfield update fixes its long-bugged answer to Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood quests, so now you can't rob your targets and then get paid extra for killing them

Now you must hunt with honour

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Former Bethesda lead reckons Starfield 2 will be "one hell of a game" because the team "had the tremendous advantage of Oblivion" when making Skyrim

And Oblivion "had the tremendous advantage of Morrowind"

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Skyrim design lead says moving on from the fantasy RPG to sci-fi games like Fallout and Starfield was a "relief" that let Bethesda "exercise new creative muscles"

Bruce Nesmith admits some Bethesda devs "weren't attracted" to Fallout or Starfield because "they wanted to work on fantasy titles"

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'Nobody, and I mean nobody, at Bethesda is patting themselves on the back while ignoring our players': Starfield design director reassures fans that developers are paying attention to community concerns

Emil Pagliarulo says "there's not a bug or issue with the game that Bethesda as a whole isn't aware of."

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With The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 still on the distant horizon, Bethesda's plans for Starfield to join its "big 3" seem like a pipe dream

Opinion| Do you fancy waiting 15 years for Starfield 2?

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"Bethesda Game Studio's Big 3" RPGs are now Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Starfield, studio veteran says: "Starfield is simply developing its own unique fanbase"

"Starfield has its own unique personality and now sits right next to Fallout and Elder Scrolls"

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