24 years later, Hines says it's time to call it quits.

Head of global publishing and senior vice-president at Bethesda, Pete Hines, just announced that he is retiring. If you have watched any Bethesda showcase over the past several years, you probably saw Hines speak at least once during the presentations. He was probably the second most recognizable face from Bethesda outside of Todd Howard.

Hines had a hand in the launch of several key Bethesda franchises since he...

Plus a Fallout 3 remaster, Ghostwire: Tokyo sequel, and new unnamed projects.

The mid-gen hardware refreshes for Xbox Series X and Series S weren't the only things leaked when Microsoft mistakenly put some of their own court documents online. The documents, published online accidentally as part of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) vs Microsoft over the planned purchase of Activision Blizzard, includes a timeline of planned Bethesda game releases.

This document seems to...

The reveal comes from Microsoft themselves.

The Elder Scrolls 6 won't be coming any time soon, according to Microsoft's own documents. Not only the next Elder Scrolls title still several years away, it looks like it won't be headed to the PlayStation 5 (or whatever PlayStation is out at the time of release).

These new details come from Microsoft's own documents that were filed as part of the legal battle between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft concerning...

Makes you wonder why they weren't in there to begin with.

Bethesda released the first post-launch update for Starfield today. It's not exactly a big one, but it does include a couple of fixes for stability and progression blockers. However, the bigger news is that Bethesda mentioned what they plan to add to the game in the near future.

Bethesda says that they will add some of the most requested community features. You know, features like the ability to adjust brightness...

Though there are already hundreds of mods available.

Todd "Sixteen Times the Detail" Howard of Bethesda fame, says that Starfield will receive official mod support in 2024. Howard spilled the Creation Kit beans in a recent chat with Famitsu.

While a firm release date wasn't given, it was suggested that when it does arrive it will come through the Creation Kit that is used for other Bethesda titles such as Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Howard says...

6 million players and counting.

Bethesda Game Studios announced mere minutes ago that Starfield is the largest ever release for Bethesda. It's not clear if this is the largest release for Bethesda Softworks (the publisher), Bethesda Game Studios (the developer) or just "Bethesda" in general. Let's just go with "Bethesda" in the general sense here because no other clarification was offered.

Whatever the case may be, Starfield seems to be a pretty big...

This time, it's available to everyone.

Starfield, the first new IP from Bethesda Game Studios in 25 years, is finally available to everyone on the Xbox Series X|S and PC. Players will take to the far reaches of the galaxy as they explore, fight, converse, sneak, hack, and do most everything else you have probably come to know and expect from an open Bethesda RPG at this point.

You will go on an adventure with your own custom character to explore however you want and tackle...

See what critics are saying about the most anticipated game of 2023.

The first major wave of reviews are in for Starfield and, well, they aren't bad. They're not super great either but they certainly aren't bad.

According to OpenCritic, Starfield currently sits at an average review score of 87% with 93% of all reviewers recommending the game. The scores for this one seem to range from as low as 50% to as high as 100% (or 10 out of 10 to be more specific).

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No, there is no gameplay in this trailer.

A new live-action Starfield trailer came out today. It showed up during Gamescom Opening Night Live. It's... it's a live-action trailer for Starfield. Not sure what else needs to be said.

Starfield is out on September 6 for Xbox Series X|S and PC. ...

Why yes, that's tomorrow!

Bethesda and Microsoft have confirmed to the world that Starfield has gone gold! Before digital downloads became prevalent, going gold indicated that a game was ready to be sent off for mass production of physical copies. These days? It mostly just means that the game is done, typically free of major bugs, and can be played from start to finish.

Starfield will reportedly have a physical disc release, so the antiquated form of gone gold still actually...

Plus, some behind the scenes of Necrom for Elder Scrolls Online.

As part of the Xbox Games Showcase Extended, which aired just a short time ago today, Bethesda had some non-Starfield things to show off. ...

Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Fable, and more.

Just doing a quick recap post for now of all the trailers that were shown off during the rather meaty Xbox Games Showcase that aired today. I'll have longer write-ups about some of the games either later today or this week. ...

The troubled game's first update is quite lacking.

An update for Redfall made its way to the PC version of the game earlier today. Those of you downloading the several gigabyte update were probably hoping to see some fixes included for the game's myriad of technical issues. Maybe a fix for the poor CPU and GPU utilization, and overall generally poor performance? Maybe fixes for the shadows, or broken AI, or broken animations, or ragdoll glitches, or poor textures, or floating geometry,...