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Bethesda updates Starfield fans on the sci-fi game's future

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:26:11 GMT

Amid a flurry of news about new Fallout games and an update on The Elder Scrolls 6, Bethesda Game Studios wants Starfield players to know it's not giving up on its sci-fi spacefaring RPG. Bethesda said Friday that "Starfield remains an important part of our future" and confirmed that more content is coming to the game.

Bethesda reveals what's next for Fallout, The Elder Scrolls & Starfield

Austin Manchester — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:09:59 GMT

Earlier in July, Xbox divested from multiple studios and laid off 1,600 employees, with 1,600 more layoffs expected by the end of its fiscal year next summer. Bethesda and its sibling studios at ZeniMax Media were affected by those layoffs, leading to questions about how the cuts will impact Bethesda's marquee franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.

Starfield coming to PS5 in April, Bethesda and Microsoft confirm

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:15:18 GMT

After months of speculation, leaks, and more than two years of Xbox console exclusivity, Bethesda Game Studios is bringing its 2023 sci-fi role-playing game Starfield to PlayStation 5. Starfield's PS5 version will be released on April 7, alongside the "biggest update to the game since launch," Bethesda Softworks announced Tuesday.

Xbox Game Pass adds Avowed, Madden NFL 25 in February

Ian Walker — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:55:14 GMT

A new month means a new Xbox Game Pass lineup, and the first half of February is looking pretty good for folks with active subscriptions.

Bethesda nerfed Starfield’s most annoying feature — its maps

Nicole Carpenter — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:31:21 GMT

Bethesda Game Studios is fixing one of the worst things about Starfield — its maps. The lack of readable maps was one of my biggest gripes with the spacefaring adventure game; regardless of how many times I visited a city, I got lost. Thankfully, that’s changing. It’s an essential part of Starfield’s latest patch, which is currently in beta, that also adjusts several other annoying issues with the game. Bethesda doesn’t have a release date for the patch just yet, but it shouldn’t be too long.

The 10 best Starfield mods to upgrade your gameplay

ashley-bardhan — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:34:06 GMT

In Bethesda’s expansive role-playing game Starfield, not even the sky is the limit. When you decide to become one of its spacefaring inhabitants, you may quickly start to feel like there are infinite planets and potatoes to conquer. It could take a lifetime to do it all. Could you ever want for more?

Infamous modder replaces Starfield’s ships with Thomas the Tank Engine

Cass Marshall — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:39:03 GMT

Starfield’s story is ultimately about hope for the future of humanity, but the game has so much scope and scale that there’s plenty of room to make your own adventure. For instance, some players might be pirates and smugglers, while others prefer to protect the Settled Systems. If you’re particularly spicy, there’s a new mod that allows you to replace all of your ships with Thomas the Tank Engine.

How rain works in Starfield — and lots of other games

Nicole Carpenter — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:19:21 GMT

Starfield players realized this week that their characters have rain clouds that follow them around planets, à la The Truman Show. Rain isn’t falling all over Neon, for instance — just wherever you roam. A Starfield player posted a screenshot from the game’s photo mode to Reddit, showing a block of rain around their character, and nowhere else.

Starfield contains a secret environmentalist message

Ana Diaz — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:15:00 GMT

Visiting Earth in Starfield is a rather sad homecoming. I land my ship in the state of Florida and it looks nothing like the state I know. Rather than seeing the open ocean, twisting mangroves, and lush tropical plants, a desert covers the land as far as the eye can see. I, a Xenobiologist, scan the planet and see there’s no flora or fauna left; only basic Earth minerals remain. The planet is quite literally a husk of its former self.

Dear Bethesda: Why are Starfield’s books so short?

joshua-rivera — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:00:00 GMT

In the world of big-budget video game developers, Bethesda Game Studios has the rare gift of consistency. Play one of its games and you know, more or less, what to expect from all of them: an expansive open world filled with every product a Staples and/or medieval Whole Foods ever sold, mannequin-like characters that will stiffly run through gunfire to ask you to deliver a magic cheese curd, and, most importantly, literature. Tons of books, letters, notes, and emails for you, the player, to read at your leisure, totally unbothered by whatever world-ending crisis you are ostensibly supposed to ward off.