Bethesda Softworks News Articles
Tuesday17th Oct 2023
News Xbox Head Thanks Bethesda Veteran Pete Hines For His Services
"24 years of being at the heart of Bethesda"
Yesterday, Bethesda veteran and head of publishing, Pete Hines, announced he would be retiring after 24 years of service at the company. In a follow-up to this, Phil Spencer and some others within the Xbox family have thanked Hines for his contribution to the Bethesda family over the years. Xbox and...
Monday16th Oct 2023
News Bethesda's Longtime Publishing Head Pete Hines Is Leaving The Company
"I have decided my time at Bethesda Softworks has come to an end"
Wow, this is a bit of a bombshell! Head of Publishing at Bethesda, Pete Hines, is officially leaving the company following the huge launch of Starfield. Yep, Hines has been a prominent public figure at Bethesda for more than two decades, but the exec has decided it's time to retire...
Thursday15th Jun 2023
News Todd Howard Says Starfield Is 'Great' On Xbox Series S
"Most of my Starfield play has been on Series S"
There's been a lot of discussion about the space RPG release Starfield being locked at 30FPS on Xbox consoles, but how is it specifically on the Series S? While we've already seen the game in action on Series X, Bethesda game director Todd Howard has mentioned how it's a "great" looking experience on...
Monday12th Jun 2023
News Phil Spencer's Xbox Games Showcase Shirt Has Hexen Fans Excited
Update: The Xbox boss reveals all
Update: During a chat with Polygon, Phil Spencer mentioned how the Hexen shirt apparently wasn't intended as a teaser for an upcoming announcement, but rather to "recognise the importance of some of the games in our portfolio". That said, he suggested it might be worth bringing the IP back at some point...
Sunday11th Jun 2023
News Starfield Xbox Controller, Headset & Watch Officially Announced
Pre-orders are now live
After a number of leaks, Bethesda has finally revealed the Starfield accessory line - confirming there's a themed Xbox Series X|S controller and headset on the way, along with a watch. Now that Bethesda is part of Xbox, it's been able to collaborate with the "amazing hardware team" - to create a custom limited-edition...
Friday21st Apr 2023
News Dishonored 3 Was Put On Pause For A 'Small Game' Known As Deathloop
The small project "became a big thing"
If you've been wondering what the status is on Arkane's action-adventure series Dishonored, it seems it's potentially been put on pause. During an interview with our friends at Rock Paper Shotgun, Arkane founder Raphaël Colantonio, who has since moved on from the company, spoke about how Bethesda initially...
Wednesday1st Mar 2023
News Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Discusses The Importance Of Platform Exclusives
Titles like Starfield won't be available on "other" platforms
Bethesda's Starfield is undoubtedly one of the most highly anticipated Xbox releases of 2023, but there's also been a bit of uproar in the lead-up to launch regarding the game's exclusivity to the Xbox ecosystem. In a new interview with the official Xbox On YouTube channel, Microsoft...
Friday27th Jan 2023
News Redfall's 'Bite Back Upgrade' Looks A Hard Sell Even For Xbox Game Pass Members
Just a nibble
We're very, very happy to see Arkane's Redfall finally dated; slotting into the upcoming Xbox Game Pass 2023 schedule on May 2nd. While the game's inclusion in Microsoft's subscription service provides incredible value (the game is $70 to buy separately), we're not quite sure the same can be said for its Deluxe upgrade. Yep, alongside...
Wednesday30th Nov 2022
News Todd Howard On Starfield's Xbox Exclusivity: 'It's Just Awesome'
The team gets help from "the top engineers" at Xbox
Starfield is easily one of the most anticipated titles of 2023, but one question that continues to resurface is about the platforms this epic space RPG is coming to. In a new interview on the Lex Fridman podcast (via YouTube), legendary game developer Todd Howard was asked once again about the...
Tuesday22nd Nov 2022
News Elder Scrolls Online Creator ZeniMax Working On Huge New IP
Four and a half years in the making
The Microsoft-owned company ZeniMax - aka the parent of Bethesda and perhaps best known for its massive multiplayer title The Elder Scrolls Online - reportedly has a new IP in the works that's apparently had a lot of time and money invested in it. During an appearance on the Product Builders YouTube podcast last...
Monday1st Aug 2022
News Bethesda's 'Roundhouse Studios' Is Working On An Unannounced Title At Xbox
Alongside co-developing Arkane's Redfall
Since Xbox fully acquired Bethesda last year, quite a few of the company's studios have remained tight-lipped on the future. Sure, we now know quite a lot about Starfield and Redfall — after the Xbox showcase anyways — but the future of teams like Id Software and Machine Games remains fairly unknown...
Wednesday15th Jun 2022
News Bethesda Confirms You Can't Manually Land On Planets In Starfield
The team is focusing on planets and space, not what's in between
More and more details about Starfield are beginning to trickle out following the game's grand reveal at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. One question that fans posed after the reveal was 'how do you travel between planets?' Well, the answer is that flying isn't fully player...
Monday13th Jun 2022
Video Here Is Fallout 76's Next Major Content Update, Out This September
Enter 'The Pitt'
Bethesda's Starfield may have been the star of the Xbox showcase, but the game company responsible for series like Elder Scrolls and Fallout, also had some other stuff on display. One segment showed off a new major content update for the online RPG Fallout 76 called "Expeditions: The Pitt". It's due out this September on Xbox and...
Tuesday21st Sep 2021
News It's Officially Been A Year Since Xbox And Bethesda Joined Forces
No really, it has
This time last year it was just a normal September day until Xbox decided to shake up the games industry forever. In a shock announcement, Xbox revealed it had acquired ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks. As a result, developers such as Bethesda, id Software, Arkane and Tango Gameworks were all now going to...
Thursday19th Aug 2021
News Rumoured Quake Remaster Rated For Xbox One, Series X, Series S
We're anticipating an announcement today
Last week, it appeared a "revitalised edition" of the original Quake was set to be announced. A rating for the game has now been spotted for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, along with the suggestion we may see its announcement anytime now. The rating is on the ESRB website, which lists Quake from...
Monday16th Nov 2020
News Microsoft Wants Bethesda Games To 'Show Up The Best' On Xbox
"You'll continue to see us shift towards a first or better or best approach"
Microsoft has spoken again about the future of Bethesda games on the Xbox platform, revealing it wants to games "to be either first or better or best" on Xbox platforms. Originally reported by VGC, Microsoft's chief financial officer Tim Stuart spoke during the Jefferies...
Friday25th Sep 2020
News Bethesda: Xbox Game Pass 'Broadens The Canvas For All Games'
"It really opens up the creative opportunities"
Microsoft made the landmark announcement earlier this week that it had acquired the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, highlighting that Bethesda's "iconic franchises" would be added to Xbox Game Pass as a result. We've already seen evidence of this in the form of DOOM Eternal, which hits the...
Saturday8th Aug 2020
News id Software Teases First Expansion For DOOM Eternal - The Ancient Gods, Part One
The fight's not over yet
This year's QuakeCon is now officially underway! In the opening broadcast, id Software's Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin teased the first single-player expansion for DOOM Eternal - The Ancient Gods, Part One. Here are the full details about it from the Bethesda website: Your victory over the hordes of Hell spared Earth from...
Wednesday1st Apr 2020
News Bethesda Has Cancelled Its June Digital Showcase
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Pete Hines, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Communications at Bethesda, has taken to Twitter to announce that the company will no longer be holding a Digital Showcase this June. The reason concerns "the many challenges" the company is facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a replacement for the Digital...
Sunday22nd Mar 2020
Random Creative YouTuber Makes DOOM Eternal Out Of Clay
It's gore-tastic
If you've never heard of Lee Hardcastle, he's a very popular indie filmmaker who makes "claymation that's not for children." And last week, ahead of the release of DOOM Eternal on Friday, he took to YouTube to unveil his latest gory creation based on Bethesda's new game. You can see the video for yourself above, which is currently...
