Tag: Bethesda
News New Starfield Test Suggests It Could Run At 40-60FPS On Xbox Series X
"Most of the time we're beyond 40FPS"
The tech wizards over at Digital Foundry have been trying to answer the question of whether Starfield could run at 60FPS on Xbox Series X, and the answer isn't simple - but it does give us hope for the future! In order to test this, the team put together "the actual Xbox Series X CPU via the AMD 4800S Desktop...
Guide Starfield: The 10 Coolest Things We've Found So Far
Space, the final fro...oh look over there!
Starfield is an enormous RPG that's stuffed to the intergalactic gills full of planets to explore, enemy camps to raid, huge spaceships to steal and magic powers to discover and wield. There's plenty to be getting on with, is what we're trying to say, and there's also lots of very cool little references and...
Guide Starfield: All Achievements List
All 50 achievements listed
Need a quick checklist of all achievements in Starfield? We've got you covered. From completing your very first mission to ranking yourself all the way up to level 100 and beyond, the following list includes every achievement in the game and how to complete it. Starfield: All Achievements List: A Legacy Forged –...
Guide Starfield: Digipick Guide - How To Pick Locks, Where To Find Digipicks
Digital deviance
Bethesda has finally moved on from the good old tumbler and pin locks that have been a mainstay in their RPGs for a long time in favour of fancy new digilocks in Starfield. If you're having trouble getting used to this new way of nicking lots of sweet gear and opening up locked doors, we've got a quick guide for you. Starfield:...
News No Man's Sky's 'Biggest Month In Years' Coincides With The Launch Of Starfield
We wonder why it's doing so well...
No Man's Sky is having its "biggest month in the last few years", says Hello Games founder Sean Murray, and we can't help but think that a certain Xbox exclusive may have played a part in the game's newfound success. Yes, of course, we're talking about Starfield, which launched its own space odyssey into orbit...
Guide Starfield: All Powers, Best Powers, How To Unlock All Powers
Power Up!
Besides an absolute ton of guns and other weapons to pick up, and a massive skill tree to get busy unlocking, Starfield also gives players 24 powers to wield in battle. The game's powers begin to unlock a little ways into the game, and you'll need to do some travelling in order to get them all, but it's worth the hassle as there are some...
News Bethesda Is Looking Into 'Issues' With HDR Support In Starfield
"Our team is still investigating"
The technical makeup of Bethesda's Starfield has mostly been praised so far, well, aside from the lack of any sort of 60FPS option on console. However, users across Xbox and various different PC set
News Starfield Hits New Peak Player Count On Steam During Opening Weekend
Almost 100k more than our last check-in!
During early access, Starfield hit an impressive peak player count on Steam, especially considering that users had to shell out around $100 to play early on the platform. Since then, the game has of course arrived in its standard edition form, and it's now smashed that early access player count number...
News Xbox Boss Reiterates Platform Exclusives Will Be Determined On A 'Case-By-Case Basis'
"It's really about giving players choice"
Bethesda's brand-new space exploration RPG Starfield officially launched last week and it really is exclusive to Xbox and PC platforms - there's no definitely no sign of it ever coming to PlayStation or Nintendo. If this has got you wondering about the future of certain Xbox game releases going forward,...
Guide 13 Useful Mechanics Starfield Doesn't Tell You About
A spooky number of things that are easy to miss!
Starfield is a huge game with tons of systems, controls and various bits and bobs to get a handle on. Most of this is well guided and there are plenty of tutorials to dig into if you're stuck. However, some things just don't really get explained very well, so let's take a look at a few of the best...
Guide Starfield: How To Level Up Your Piloting Skills Super Quickly
Top Gun
Levelling up skills in Starfield takes quite a bit of time, there's a large spread to choose from and plenty of XP and objective hoops to jump through in order to move up ranks within each individual skill branch. It stands to reason most players will want to rank up healing, combat and other aspects of their character first, but piloting...
Guide Starfield: How To Level Up Quickly, Tips For Levelling Up
Earn XP faster with these tips
Starfield is an absolutely huge game with large skill trees that are gonna take you to over level 300 to fully max out. That's a lot of levels. Unfortunately, the way things are balanced right now, going through the game's main and side missions doesn't net you all that much in the way of XP. So we need to look...
Guide Starfield: Almagest Jackpot Guide - Casino Location, How To Get The Almagest Vault Code
How to rob the casino vault
The Almagest is a casino location in Starfield that you'll find situated within the orbit of Nesoi in the Olympus System. Not only does this area have some cool zero-grav to get through where you'll need to blast a bunch of enemies as you all barrel around, it's also got a nice big vault with a wad of credits inside, and...
Guide Starfield: How To Store Items On Your Ship
Cargo hoooooooold
It's easy to run out of space to carry all the essentials (and junk) that you pick up as your blast around in Starfield, so it's a good idea to put some of it away in your ship's hold until such time as you wish to equip or sell it. Let's take a look at how to do this. Starfield: How To Store Items On Your Ship: Using your very...
News Todd Howard Explains Why There Aren't Any Land Vehicles In Starfield
"It's something we considered"
Getting around in the world of Starfield has been a hot topic since the game first arrived in early access, and in a new interview with Bloomberg, Bethesda's Todd Howard has touched on the topic of Space travel in Starfield. Responding to a fan question asking why there aren't any land vehicles in the game, Todd said...
Guide Starfield: How To Get The Boost Pack, How To Use The Boost Pack & All Boost Pack Upgrades
You absolute rocket
Wandering across large expanses on foot or tearing around the cosmos in your spaceship is all well and good, but there is another way to travel in Starfield and that's by using your boost pack! Let's take a look at how it works. Starfield: How To Get The Boost Pack, How To Use Your Boost Pack And All Boost Pack Upgrades: How...
News Xbox Boss Says Starfield 'Exceeded' 1 Million Concurrent Players On Launch Day
All of them exploring the stars
Starfield is now officially out in the wild for all players, including those on Xbox Game Pass, and the title's monumental launch has led to a very impressive concurrent player count across all platforms. Xbox boss Phil Spencer has taken to Twitter to inform us all that more than one million players booted up...
News Starfield Being An Xbox Exclusive Allowed For Greater 'Focus', Says Todd Howard
It's worked out well for Bethesda
Bethesda's Todd Howard has been doing the rounds today in a variety of interviews to promote the full launch of Starfield, and he had some particularly interesting comments to share about Xbox exclusivity with the BBC. In recent years, there's been a lot of discussion around the decision to make Starfield exclusive...
News Phil Spencer Congratulates Bethesda On The 'Incredible Achievement' Of Launching Starfield
"They poured themselves into Starfield"
Starfield has finally arrived on Xbox Game Pass after what's felt like an eternity of waiting, and the Xbox boss is well aware of what Bethesda has had to go through to get this game out the door. In a post on Twitter, Phil Spencer congratulated Bethesda Game Studios on the launch of Starfield. The Xbox Boss...
News Starfield Fan's Potato-Filled Spaceship Shows Off Impressive Physics System
Maris tie fighter
There's lot of serious business to be done and dusted while playing Starfield - after all, we are exploring multiple galaxies trying to figure out some of the mysteries of the universe. However, there's also time for some silly stuff, like collecting as many potatoes as can feasibly fit into your spaceship cabin. Yep, following...
News Streamer Proves You Can Fly All The Way To 'Pluto' In Starfield
It only takes 7 hours to get there manually!
Even before its main launch, Starfield has been touted as Bethesda's most expansive RPG ever, so naturally, players are already putting that theory to the test by travelling to the far reaches of space to see what's out there. Streamer Alanah Pearce has dipped into some spacefaring travel during the...
Guide Starfield Guides: Walkthrough, Tips & Tricks
For all, Into the Starfield
Hello and welcome to our Starfield Guides Hub. Here you'll be able to find lots of tips and tricks and walkthroughs to get you started on your epic space adventure. In these guides we'll be helping you to get started out with Our #1 Top Tip For New Players, we'll be detailing How To Get A Free Ship Early, How To Sell,...
News Bethesda Insists Redfall Will Improve, Compares Launch To Fallout 76 And Elder Scrolls Online
"We're going to get it to be a good game"
Arkane Austin's co-op vampire shooter Redfall is arguably one of the most underwhelming game releases of 2023, but just because it got off to a rough start, it doesn't mean Bethesda is done with it. There have already been some minor patches for the game, and apparently, the studio is still working on other...
Feature Early Access Players, What Are Your First Impressions Of Starfield?
Let's round up some thoughts
Alright, so we're approaching 24 hours of early access time with Starfield at the time of writing, so we feel like now's a good time to start asking everyone about their first impressions of Bethesda's new expansive RPG. We've probably all seen the reviews at this point — the game currently has an impressive...
News Starfield Is Hitting Impressive Concurrent Player Numbers On Steam Already
It costs $100 to play in early access!
Starfield is only out in early access at the moment, but that isn't stopping folks from turning up in their hundreds of thousands to play Bethesda's brand new RPG as soon as possible. Even if we only take the Steam player numbers into account, Starfield's early launch is looking like a mighty successful one for...
News Bethesda Thanks Fans For Their Support As Starfield Enters Early Access
Todd also thanked everyone on the game's subreddit
It's a huge day for Bethesda, with the Xbox-owned company releasing its first brand-new IP in over 25 years. To celebrate the launch of Starfield, it's also issued a message to its fans, thanking them for their ongoing support over the years and for getting it across the line with this latest...
News It's Time! Starfield Early Access Is Now Available On Xbox & PC
Let's hope for a smooth launch
It's time! The early access version of Starfield is now officially live on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and Windows PC, so those who have acquired the Premium, Premium Upgrade or Constellation Editions are free to begin playing. <products id="24834"> For those who are wondering, the Xbox Game Pass version of...
News Starfield Fans, What Are Your Plans Over The Next Few Days?
Are you getting early access?
It's time for Starfield! After years of anticipation, we'll finally be able to get our hands on Bethesda's epic RPG over the next few days - first with the early access versions and then with the standard Game Pass release on September 6th. So the question is, what are your plans?! Have you decided to pick up the
News The Elder Scrolls 6 Has Entered The Early Stages Of Development
Don't expect significant updates for at least "a few years"
Although the focus is on Starfield right now, Bethesda is also busy with one other massive-scale game. We're talking about The Elder Scrolls 6 and it seems there's been another minor update about the status of this highly anticipated fantasy project. During an interview with
News Get Ready For Starfield With This New Xbox Series X|S Dynamic Background
Available now!
With just over 24 hours to go until the early access release of Starfield, Xbox has treated us to yet another free Dynamic Background today based on the epic RPG, and specifically based on its excellent cover art. You can take a look at the new background via the tweet below: Now admittedly, there's not much action to this Dynamic...
News Starfield 'Children Of The Sky' Music Video Is Here, And It's Giving Us The Chills
We're imagining dragons
We didn't see this collaboration coming! As part of Xbox's big marketing push for Starfield, the team at Bethesda has partnered with music outfit Imagine Dragons to launch 'Children of the Sky' - a brand-new song to coincide with Starfield's launch. We're not hugely familiar with Imagine Dragons' catalogue of tunes...
News Major Starfield Patch Arrives On Xbox Ahead Of This Week's Launch
Make sure you're ready to go!
You may have noticed yesterday that Starfield received a new update on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC, which means if you haven't got automatic updates turned on, you'll need to start the update manually as soon as possible! The size is 15.48GB on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, whereas the PC version is slightly...
News Microsoft Pulls Xbox Game Pass Trial Ahead Of Starfield Release
You can no longer try out the service for $1
About three weeks ago Microsoft reintroduced its new, shorter Xbox Game Pass trial after pulling the $1 for a month offer back in March, but it seems that all of a sudden the company isn't feeling so generous. As we speedily approach Starfield's launch on the service, Xbox has decided to remove any sort...
News Bethesda Wants The Elder Scrolls 6 To Be 'The Ultimate Fantasy-World Simulator'
"And there are different ways to accomplish that"
All eyes are on Starfield right now when it comes to Bethesda Game Studios projects, but thanks to an early tease from years ago, we do know that The Elder Scrolls 6 is also in the works over there. We know hardly anything else about the team's Skyrim sequel, but, Todd Howard has spoken a lit
News Starfield Xbox Game Pass Release Times Confirmed By Bethesda
Here's when we can access the standard edition
We've known for a few weeks now when early access players can go hands-on with Starfield, but if you're just planning to blast off on the standard Xbox Game Pass launch day, Bethesda has now delivered the news you've been waiting for. The team has confirmed the exact time you can play the standard...
News Starfield Xbox Series X Console Wrap Spotted In-Person, And It Looks Even More Beautiful
Is your console going to be Starfield wrapped?
Okay, so, there's lots going on at Gamescom this week, but some of those in attendance have their priorities well and truly sorted out here. Those priorities are to do with locking eyes on the new Xbox Series X console wraps - specifically the gorgeous Starfield edition which we're very keen to see in...
News Bethesda Exec 'Hasn't Come Close' To Finishing Starfield After 160 Hours
This game might take you a while
It's fair to say that Bethesda Game Studios' titles tend to stick around for a while after launch, and it sounds like their upcoming RPG Starfield is going to fit that mold as well. In a new interview with Xbox On, Bethesda's Pete Hines says that he's played a lot of Starfield already and "hasn't come close" to...
News Starfield Debuts Epic Live Action Trailer & Musical Performance
As part of Gamescom 2023
Today's Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 event was kicked off by none other than Starfield, featuring a live musical performance, an epic new live action trailer, and an appearance by Bethesda's Todd Howard! You can check out the live action trailer above, set to an orchestral version of Elton John's "Rocket Man". Here's...
News Bethesda Exec Responds To 'Unprofessional' Criticism Of Starfield's Menu Screen
"That’s been our menu for years"
Believe it or not, there are a few lucky people out there who already have access to Starfield ahead of its release in September, and therefore a few leaks have already appeared in the wild - including the game's menu screen. This screen has actually been generating a lot of debate over the weekend on social...
News Starfield Is Already Discounted On PC Ahead Of September Launch
Bethesda fanatics satisfied
UK game code retailer Fanatical is already offering up a healthy discount on the PC version of Starfield - weeks before the game's launch. Right now you can get 17% off both the Standard and Premium versions of the game, amounting to a discount of over £10 on both editions here in the UK. These PC copies are for the...
News Starfield Preloads Now Live, 100GB+ Download Size On Xbox & PC
Go, go, go!
The time has arrived! Starfield preloads have officially begun on Xbox Series X and Series S consoles as well as Windows PC today, with the download size clocking in at over 100GB across all platforms so far. Specifically, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S download sizes are 100.18GB, while the PC version is 116.6GB. It's worth...
News Watch Out! Some People Are Trying To Ruin Starfield For The Rest Of Us
Spoilers and "review bombing" inbound
With Starfield preloads going live today, we're now finally on the verge of the game's long-awaited release, and that inevitably means spoilers will be littering the internet from those who are somehow able to get access before it arrives. In fact, it's apparently already begun. Various Starfield related social...
News Xbox Exclusive Hi-Fi RUSH Has Now Surpassed 3 Million Players
"3 million players have turned up to ROCK"
Tango Gameworks has announced today that the Xbox (and PC) exclusive Hi-Fi RUSH has officially surpassed three million players! The news was revealed in a post on social media earlier this afternoon: Here's a quick look at the confirmation: This means that Hi-Fi RUSH has received an extra one million...
News Starfield Has Officially Gone Gold, Xbox & PC Preload Dates Revealed
"Prepare for launch"
It's FINALLY almost time! Bethesda has announced today that Starfield has officially gone gold ahead of its release in early September, and preloads for the game will be available on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S this week. Specifically, you can preload Starfield on Xbox Series X|S and the Xbox App for Windows PC beginning...
News Starfield Backstory Reveals What Happened Leading Up To 2330 A.D.
"The Story So Far"
Bethesda has today begun highlighting the Starfield Constellation Timeline, which provides a whole bunch of backstory leading up to the year 2230 A.D. in the game, which is the point where you start your journey. The most detail comes from the game's official website, where everything from 2050 to 2230 is documented. Little...
News Bethesda Exec Urges Patience In Response To Restless Starfield & Fallout Fans
"We know what we're doing"
With the release of Starfield now just a few short weeks away, Bethesda is going through an incredibly busy time right now, and head of marketing Pete Hines has urged fans who are requesting more information to remain patient. Hines initially responded to a fan's question about details on the planned Xbox Series X and S...
News Xbox And Bethesda Partner AMD Reveals 'Limited Edition' Starfield GPU & CPU
"Just 500 graphics cards and CPUs being produced"
Bethesda has already released a themed Xbox Series X|S controller and headset for its upcoming release of Starfield, and now as part of its exclusive AMD partnership on PC, it's unveiled a themed GPU and CPU. Players will be able to "explore the galaxy with unparalleled freedom" with a...
News Bethesda Hosting Pre-Launch Developer Q&A On Starfield Next Week
"Constellation members are invited to join us"
Bethesda Game Studios has announced an upcoming Q&A session for all things Starfield ahead of the game's impending Xbox launch. Developers Will Shen and Emil Pagliarulo will host an "exclusive dev Q&A" via the Bethesda Studios Discord channel next week. Taking place at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm...
News Starfield Marketing Spools Up As Samsung Advertises Xbox Title For Its TV Gaming Hub
"Stand by for the anticipated launch of Starfield"
The Starfield ads will soon be hitting us thick and fast! As we speedily approach the game's launch, Samsung has begun advertising the RPG for its TV Gaming Hub already - where you'll use Xbox Cloud Gaming to play the game without the need for a console. It's kind of wild that in 2023 you'll be...
Talking Point We're Officially Four Weeks Away From The Early Access Launch Of Starfield
The wait is almost over
We actually can't believe it! Bethesda's huge open world RPG Starfield is just four weeks out from its early access launch - and base game players haven't got long to wait either. Yep, Starfield early access drops four weeks today on September 1st, before the broad Game Pass launch arrives on September 6th. So... have you...