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

This development raises a lot of questions about the future of a lot of Bethesda projects. The two biggest Bethesda games on the horizon, Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 , were both announced back in 2018 during E3. Both projects got brief announcement trailers, and both fell to radio silence over the two years that have passed since, with only brief indications they're still in development serving as news updates. The Microsoft buyout makes the status of Starfield and TES 6 on PS5 unclear, too, which is further complicating the fact that fans still know next to nothing about either g

The announcements of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 generated a lot of excitement among fans, but the long silence has dampened things pretty considerably. Bethesda swears that Starfield will be worth the long wait , but before too long, it's going to have to give fans something. This engine overhaul is worth getting excited about, to be sure, but it still pales in comparison to any actual, solid news on either Starfield or The Elder Scrolls

In a lengthy essay published to Bethesda.net following Microsoft's acquisition, Todd Howard mentioned a scant bit of info about the two titles, if only to remind fans that they still exist. Howard's essay reflected on the legacy of Bethesda and its partnership with Xbox, which allowed it to bring Morrowind to the Xbox console back in 2002. Howard claims that being bought by Microsoft will allow Bethesda to make the most use of the Xbox Series X's next-gen technology to advance the development of both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 . Most notably, Howard said that the Series X's new hardware has led to Bethesda's biggest engine overhaul since Oblivion . To quote the man himself, " These new systems are optimized for the vast worlds we love to create, with generational leaps not just in graphics, but CPU and data streaming as wel

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

Upcoming titles The Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield will be available on Xbox Game Pass on day one of their launches, according to Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard. Microsoft's acquisition of the company isn't yet wrapped up, but this news indicates both parties are confident the deal will finish without a hi

Even though Bethesda Game Studios now has four offices scattered around the world, with a new location recently announced to be in Dallas , Hines also made clear that just because the development team has more staff than ever before doesn't mean development will go by that much more quickly. In fact, when talking about The Elder Scrolls VI specifically, Hines said that it likely won't be out until the next console generation has arrived. "I don't even know what the world is going to be like when it comes out; there will be a different console generation by then, I'm sure," Hines sta

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

In the meantime, Fallout 76 is slated to arrive just next month on November 14 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Hopefully, it will be an enjoyable multiplayer experience that will help make the trip to Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI feel that much shor

A supposed leak of Starfield screenshots may have just been verified by the unlikeliest of sources: a t-shirt worn by a Bethesda developer. The screenshots in question leaked in September, offering a brief glimpse at a possible player character, a spaceship design, and the HUD of Starfield DLC|Https://Starfieldgalaxy.Com/ . Bethesda has neither confirmed nor denied the validity of the leak to d