Starfield: Release date, trailers, gameplay, and more

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Bethesda is a studio that has found great success with its massive single-player RPG games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3. While the company’s recent fumbles with games like Fallout 76 (and, to a lesser extent, Fallout 4) have disappointed gamers, the studio is pushing forward and has some ambitious projects on the horizon. One such project is Starfield, a game that was first announced during Bethesda’s 2018 E3 presentation.

Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda, rumors about Starfield‘s release have ramped up, and now that we’ve gotten a look at its gameplay, there’s a lot more we know about the project. We’ve gathered as much information as we could to bring you everything we know about Bethesda’s upcoming sci-fi RPG, Starfield.

As part of the recent Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase 2022, Microsoft reiterated that Starfield will launch by summer 2023.

Starfield was gearing up to launch on November 11, 2022, which is 11 years after the original release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. However, on May 12, 2022, Bethesda announced it had been delayed to “the first half of 2023.”

There was discussion that Bethesda was originally planning to ship Starfield much earlier — possibly in 2020 or 2021. If the company was counting on shipping Starfield in 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic likely slowed production, pushing it further out. Following the poor reception to Fallout 76 in 2018, Bethesda likely wants its next game to be as refined and polished as possible, which will take time.

In addition, Bethesda likely doesn’t want to mirror the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, a game that was released well before it was ready.

Typically, Bethesda has multiple projects going on at once — with one getting the