Skyrim and Fallout Designer-Turned-Jesuit Priest Returned to Bethesda to Work on Starfield

An RPG scientist is attempting to break Starfield, Skyrim, and Oblivion to put all three games' physics to the test - using thousands of milk cartons, melons, and cheese wheels. 

According to leaked documents, Microsoft are/were remastering Oblivion and Fallout 3. This is boring. The past decade of innumerable remasters has been boring enough, but remastering these two games is particularly boring. When even bother when all Bethesda have made since Oblivion is Oblivion remakes with added spacesuits or yelling? Boring. But while I think the torrent of remasters is a miserable sign of big publishers just giving up, if they're going to do it anyway: why not Morrowind?

During its trial with the FTC, Microsoft said it expected the next console generation to start in 2028. Many suspected it had plans for a next-gen Xbox, which is more or less confirmed thanks to several leaked court documents (courtesy of Resetera). However, the company will seemingly refresh the current Xbox Series consoles with new features before that.

Microsoft court documents show plans to remaster The Elder Scrolls4: Oblivion and Fallout 3, as well as other unannounced games like a new Doom game, Dishonored3, and more.

A Fallout 3 Remaster and an Oblivion Remaster are two of a series of projects reportedly leaked from improperly redacted court documents from Microsoft's case against the FTC.

The Starfield community's ships are giving me some heavy Spore flashbacks. In case that's a game you missed, 2008's Spore was a funky little space-sim with several minigames stacked onto its back-end. 

When many high-profile video games are released within a given year, there will almost always be comparisons between them so long as they fit a general mold. For example, certain kinds of sports games will be compared to one another, or if there are a ton of first-person shooters coming out at once, they’ll be compared to one another, and so on. In 2023, multiple RPGs came out, two of which were Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfield. While fundamentally different on many levels, some have taken the time to go and compare the two and insult one of the dev teams.

A Larian Studios head has come to Bethesda's defence following an unfavourable comparison between Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield. In response to the criticism, Larian's director of publishing Michael Douse says it's "not true or right" to say that Bethesda devs lacked passion for Starfield, as others highlight that the game's review scores fall below Baldur's Gate 3's.

Bethesda has issued a hotfix for Starfield and is taking the opportunity to respond to feedback from the community on features in the works, including wider mod support.

Starfield gives its players a lot of stealth tools and one player has used them all to make the game play like Dishonored. By combining the best powers, weapons, skills, and armor, this player has made Starfield look like Dishonored in space.

Starfield has set a new record as the most successful game launch for Bethesda yet, overtaking the likes of Skyrim and Fallout with over six million players, according to the developer.

Game Pass has changed everything, but we're still looking back to see how Starfield's launch numbers compare to BGS' past games.