In a surprising social media post, Starfieldgalaxy.Com Bethesda revealed that it has donated a bundle to the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s auction. The highest bidder for the company’s package will have the opportunity to make a character for Starfield . In addition, the auction winner will walk away with an Xbox Series X, recalling that Bethesda recently announced that it would be acquired by the console’s creators , and sixteen titles from the studio. Several of the games seem to come from some of Bethesda’s most popular franchises including The Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein , and Doom . At the time of writing, the ongoing bidding for the Bethesda bundle is just north of $2,000. Interestingly, the auction’s website goes into slightly more detail about what the winner can expect than the studio’s post. It states that the highest bidder can look forward to working with the team behind the game, naming Todd Howard specifically, and that the winner should expect to ” schedule time to create the character within 3 months of 2/28/202
Games industry insider Jeff Grubb confirmed on his podcast (via PushSquare ) that Microsoft is indeed still planning some sort of event to outline its plans for Bethesda. Around the 27:45 mark when speaking about E3, Grubb stated, ” Microsoft’s E3 and Bethesda’s E3 could actually still be separate, they’re planning their stuff right now, and they’re planning it as two separate companies. ” Later in the podcast, Grubb is asked if he thinks Microsoft will make some sort of Bethesda-related announcement following the finalization of the deal, to which he repl
The Make-A-Wish auction page seems to have revealed an interesting, though admittedly very small, detail about the game’s development. Starfield creators will reach out to schedule developing this prize character with the auction winner in the months following the end of February. That is not much to go on but it doesn’t rule out a release date for the end of this year. Hopefully, there will be a press event from either Microsoft or Bethesda soon that will tell fans a little bit m
This is pretty low stakes as far as leaks go, as the initial screenshots didn’t give much about Starfield away. They did confirm a new visual direction for the game – which is in line with the fact that Bethesda is debuting a brand new engine for Starfield – but didn’t offer any clues as to how the game will actually play. There’s also the chance that the screenshots were from early enough in development that they hardly resemble the game at this point, but it now seems that they offer at least a snapshot of the game’s developm
However intriguing this auction prize may be, it still does not give fans much more concrete details about the game itself. There may be some news on the horizon, though. Jeff Grubb, noted industry insider, hinted on his podcast last week that Microsoft may currently be planning an event in which the company will discuss its intentions for Bethesda. There has been no official word about this from either company, howe
It is no secret that the Bethesda purchase is a huge deal for Microsoft but, with no other anticipated first party titles apparent on the horizon, the transaction will carry a lot more weight this year. While Microsoft has not hinted one way or another about Bethesda games’ fate on other consoles, Phil Spencer has made it clear that there is not a financial need for Microsoft to make cross-platform Bethesda games going forw
While there’s some speculation that Starfield will be released in 2021, there’s still no word from Bethesda on the matter. Either way, it’s likely that more concrete details about the game will start coming to light soon. With two years having passed since Starfield was unveiled and the next-gen platforms that it’ll launch on soon to be in players’ hands, the time is right for Bethesda to really start hyping its next games up, particularly if Microsoft wants to show off what to expect from its latest acquisiti
It’s hard to say exactly what this will mean for the games until fans can learn anything at all about them. Howard mentions that the next-gen technology is ” optimized for the vast worlds we love to create ,” and given Bethesda’s commitment to producing larger worlds for each successive game in the Elder Scrolls franchise, it can likely be expected that both of the upcoming titles will feature open worlds on a truly impressive scale . The precise details of what else these new engine overhauls will bring are completely unkn
Todd Howard has promised that Bethesda’s upcoming titles Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 will be running on technology that represents the company’s biggest engine overhaul since the release of Oblivion back in 2006. This bold claim comes in the wake of Microsoft’s massive buyout of ZeniMax Studios and all of its associated studios, including Bethesda. The buyout cost Microsoft $7.5 billion and results in the company owning the rights not only to Elder Scrolls and Starfield but to Doom , Fallout , and many other franchises as w