Microsoft sets an E3 2022 event — is Starfield on the agenda?

Microsoft sets an E3 2021 result — is Starfield on the agenda?

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When E3 gets underway side by side calendar month, expect to hear a lot about Microsoft's partnership with Bethesda Games equally the company touts its Xbox Serial X and Xbox Series Ten games. And hopefully that ways more details almost the highly anticipated Starfield game that'southward expected to exist exclusive to the Xbox and PCs.

Microsoft officially confirmed its E3 2021 plans, highlighted by a June 13 streaming event dubbed the "Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase." It'due south the first official event set by ane of the Large 3 console makers — forth with Microsoft, that group includes Sony and Nintendo — and it'south fueling speculation most what Bethesda might take to say about Starfield now that information technology's been caused past Microsoft.

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The digital event's announcement names no specific games, with Aaron Greenberg, general manager of Xbox Games Marketing promising a "ninety-minute show packed with everything you lot want to know about the epic gaming lineup coming out of this partnership." There's no games mentioned in the Microsoft E3 annunciation, just Starfield figures to be part of the proceedings.

Starfield is a space-faring sci-fi game that was get-go teased in 2018. There'south non a lot of information out there about the game, but leaked images have suggested it will combine space exploration with the kind of open up-globe adventure format constitute in other Bethesda games like Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Recent leaks have suggested a reveal of Starfield could happen soon — every bit in "June 13" kind of before long. The game itself may non ship until next year, when it volition likely exist an exclusive for the Xbox and PC.

Whether we larn anything almost the sci-fi RPG – or the equally-anticipated The Elder Scrolls half dozen – remains to be seen, but given Microsoft's sizable slate of previously announced games, the show shouldn't suffer for a lack of content.

A quarter of the E3 upshot'due south official logo is consumed by Primary Master, and so juicy details on the long-delayed Halo Space are all simply guaranteed. Toss in fresh Fable, Perfect Dark, and Hellblade entries, new projects from Rare and Obsidian Entertainment and whatever else Xbox's dozen or then other studios are cooking up, and heads could be spinning long before a Starfield T-shirt-sporting Todd Howard even hits the stage.

Microsoft'southward E3 effect begins at i p.yard. ET/10 a.m. PT.