Popular modding site Nexus Mods recently announced an update to its policies on paid mods, and, as ever with the topic that seems very much to be a never ending source of controversy, the response from players and modders was a bit complicated.
]]>Paid mods are always controversial. Just look at Bethesda’s latest attempt at creating a system designed to facilitate such a thing having proven pretty much as polarising as its predecessors, even if things have died down a bit since that bit of Starfield Trackers Alliance mission controversy back in June.
]]>Starfield might not have had the warmest of receptions amongst all Bethesda fans, but a former Skyrim designer thinks a sequel has a good chance to be a great game.
]]>A Starfield modder who's already re-created the iconic prison cell from the start of Oblivion says it's part of a group project dubbed "Starblivion", that they hope will end with an "Elder star system" featuring a re-creation of Cyrodiil.
]]>Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo has put the sci-fi RPG up there with the Elder Scrolls and Fallout, though I'm not sure he gets to make that call.
]]>When I first sat down and really dug into Starfield after it came out last year, I was between jobs.
]]>In the view of Bethesda design director Emil Pagliarulo, Starfield, in a lot of ways, is one of best things that the studio's ever made, even if he acknowledges that it "might not be everyone's cup of tea".
]]>Warning: Spoilers for the main quest of Starfield's Shattered Space DLC lie ahead.
]]>Warning: Minor spoilers for the opening few missions of Starfield Shattered Space lie ahead.
]]>Today, September 30, is the day. Starfield's Shattered Space DLC is set to release and Bethesda's handily provided all of the details you'll need to before you touch down on the home planet of House Va'ruun. So, here's what time Starfield Shattered Space will release in your region, and how to start it.
]]>Starfield's Shattered Space expansion arrives in exactly a week's time as I write this, with a September 30 relese date having been pencilled in a little while ago. If you're delving back into the game this week ahead of going to see what on Earth's up with House Va-ruun when the DLC, a new mod boasts some fitting threads that should help you get in a great serpent mood.
]]>If you're looking forward to digging into Starfield's Shattered Space expansion when it arrives later this month, you're in luck, as Bethesda's just put out a fresh deep-dive video that sees some of the DLC's developers talk you through what you'll be in for when you head off to discover what on Earth's up with House Va-ruun.
]]>Stop what you’re doing. You know the Starfield moon buggy, the one that arrived for free last week, after being revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live? Well, it’s now followed in the footsteps of Skyrim’s dragons and the actual spaceships it shares the settled systems with by being turned into Thomas the Tank Engine by modders, because of course it has.
]]>Starfield finally got its first land vehicle this week, via a free update Bethesda revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live alongside the Shattered Space DLC’s release date. While it almost definitely won’t convert you if you weren’t already interested in playing more of the game, it is at least spawning an inevitable array of interesting vehicle mods.
]]>OK, OK, I know all about the memes. But you can say ‘dead game’ as much as you want and you still won’t be able to undermine one, incorruptible truth: Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion looks great. In a behind-closed-doors presentation at Xbox’s booth at Gamescom ‘24, Bethesda gave me about 15 minutes of information on the game’s upcoming DLC pack, and I have to tell you: I’m sold. It actually reminded me of Dead Space, more than anything.
]]>We pretty much expected this one, but we’re still glad to see it confirmed. Starfield’s first expansion, Shattered Space, has been officially dated, thanks to a new teaser that dropped during Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live.
]]>Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is reportedly set to arrive in PS5 not long after it initially releases later this year as a timed exclusive. Yep, it's looking like the game about exploring crypts, punching Nazis and doing those same things in the opposite order may well be the next title to go multiplatform as part of that new strategy Xbox has begun employing in 2024.
]]>It's a big day for the labour movement in the games industry, as 241 Bethesda staffers have formed a union.
]]>It looks to have taken a lot longer than we all might have initially expected, but there's finally a Starfield mod that adds Star Wars' Mos Eisley Cantina to the game as a fully-fledged location you can hang out in between those new-ish bounty missions.
]]>Just days after a lengthy Reddit post outlining plans for it garnered a fair amount of attention, a very ambitious Starfield modding project that aimed to create an entire Elder Scrolls-themed planet featuring recreations of the worldspaces from Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind "has been cancelled". Though, the poster behind it denies that it was, as many commenters had assumed, never properly in the works to begin with.
]]>The recent release of a creation club for Starfield - delivering content from Bethesda and modders for purchasable credits as the studio's previously done with Skyrim and Fallout 4 - drew a lot of backlash from players. Bethesda's Todd Howard has now addressed the controversy and indicated that the studio could be looking at making some changes to the initiative going forwards.
]]>If you're looking forward to digging into Starfield's Shattered Space expansion when it arrives later this year, you're in luck, as Todd Howard's now confirmed that Bethesda's got a second bit of DLC plenned in to follow it. Also, it sounds like BGS has adopted an approach to Shattered Space that should deliver something which won't involve visits to a bunch of barren, boring moons.
]]>“I had been playing Skyrim for a long time, and one day the idea just came to me,” YouTuber Sidek tells me. “‘What if I killed Nazeem every day until TES VI was released?’”
]]>As part of yesterday's Xbox Showcase - which also offered us a first proper look at the Shattered Space expansion - Starfield also got a pretty substantial update right away. While the fact it's come with the release of the game's long-awaited Creation Kit for modders has gone down well, one thing that's drawn a bit of a mixed reaction from players is the decision to make one of the Trackers Alliance quests paid Creation Club content.
]]>Start preparing yourself to head back into Starfield, because Bethesda's now offerred us our first look at what the Shattered Space expansion - and its story is about the base game faction that's arguably piqued players' interest the most since we first learned they were a thing.
]]>Microsoft's summer Xbox presentation is soon upon us, and the Steam backend is pointing towards a big Starfield update.
]]>The largest update since Starfield was released is now available featuring detailed surface maps, new gameplay difficulty options and display settings, new features for ship customization, and a host of new features and fixes.
]]>Starfield is getting a vast new selection of fixes, changes and much-requested additions in its upcoming May update. These include interior ship decorations, new surface maps that should make nevigation less frustrating, new difficulty and gameplay options, and more. This update is live right now via Steam beta, but goes live for the public on May 15.
]]>Have you been left a bit bummed out that, after having your appetite for the series renewed by Amazon's Fallout TV show, the most recent Fallout games on offer are Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, both of which are getting fairly long in the tooth, even if they are still getting fresh updates? Well, here's what could be a bit of good news - Todd Howard says Bethesda's looking into upping its output, if it can do so in a manner it's a fan of.
]]>While we've all been caught up in Fallout fever, Starfield, the latest game Bethesda's actually released into the world, has kind of taken a backseat in most of our minds - something that's arguably been happening since the start of this year. Now, though, Todd Howard has provided a bit more info on the updates that're in the works for the game, including the Shattered Space expansion, which is coming later this year.
]]>After years of Starfield players lusting after the idea of actually being able to do something with mechs in the game aside from staring at the broken ones that dot a lot of the ruins in the Settled Systems, a new mod will finally let you build some of your own. It does far more than that though, seeking to totally overhaul the game's entire outpost system.
]]>Warning: Spoilers for Starfield lie ahead.
]]>Ok, so, Dragon's Dogma 2. It’s currently slated to run at something like 30 fps uncapped on consoles and, well, naturally there’s already debate going on online as to whether that’s a thing that’ll really have a properly tangible impact on people’s ability to enjoy the game or not.
]]>Bethesda will release the next Starfield update to Steam Beta next week on March 6.
]]>Ok, strap yourself in. You know how Xbox said Starfield isn’t coming to any other platforms as of right now? Well, it still isn’t, despite a Twitter post from Bethesda having managed to give a few people who struggle with reading minor heart attacks.
]]>Good news, that special Xbox podcast featuring an update on the console maker’s future plans took place last night. In just over 13 hours, it’s racked up about 2.3 times as many comments as it has seconds in length, which is a bit interesting to think about, if nothing else.
]]>Following a bad week to be on Twitter if you’re not a fan of arguing with people about video game boxes, the big update on Xbox’s future plans that Phil Spencer mentioned now has a concrete time and date. It’s coming via a special edition of the Official Xbox Podcast. Yes.
]]>There’s a new Starfield mod that adds a brand new skill to the game based around silently taking your foes down - in either lethal or non-lethal fashion - using your bare hands or a handy ripshank. That said, the main thing that I like about it is the potential to instantly murder someone by punching them in the posterior.
]]>Another update for Starfield has arrived in Steam beta ahead of a full release, and while this one’s not as huge as some of its predecessors, there are a few fixes in there that you should know about, especially if you’re using Nvidia DLSS and don’t want the clouds hovering above planets to look like they’re vibrating.
]]>If you’ve found Starfield’s universe to be a bit too boring for your tastes then I’ve got good news - a modder’s had a go at adding a giant golden Terrormorph boss fight to it that looks like it’s anything but that.
]]>Following a bad day to be on Twitter if you’re not a fan of arguing with people about video game boxes, Xbox’s Phil Spencer has revealed that the console maker does plan on addressing the elephant in its room…via an update that you’ll have to wait until next week for.
]]>Are you sitting down? Good. Xbox is reportedly considering bringing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Starfield to PS5 down the line.
]]>“There is no community quite like the Bethesda games community and I mean that in the best way,” Kenneth Vigue, founder of the charity initiative Fallout For Hope and creator of CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast tells me.
]]>If you’re a fan of Bethesda games, a new community modding event that’s set to take place on Twitch towards the end of next week looks well worth checking out, especially now that the artist behind some of Skyrim and Fallout 4’s most iconic creatures is set to make an appearance at it.
]]>Physical games really do seem to be on the way out, as it appears that Walmart is currently preparing to get rid of all its copies of Starfield.
]]>Starfield was originally supposed to receive what Bethesda had hailed as the game’s biggest update yet today, January 17, but it’s unfortunately been pushed back a little bit to allow the developer time to take care of a mysterious issue it’s discovered.
]]>While Starfield’s Creation Kit is still yet to drop, it seems like a lot of modders have come into 2024 ready to start planning out and working on some very complex projects. The latest of these is a mod that aims to add flyable Top Gun-style fighter jets to the game.
]]>Bethesda has already teased some pretty big additions that are coming to Starfield over the course of this year, but modders have begun taking one of their promises, new ways of getting around, into their own hands. The latest vehicle being worked on is a tank, though it looks like it might not be on offer to the player.
]]>It's no secret that 2023 was a big year for games, but the top sellers on Steam for the year include a couple of surprise indie hits that managed to go toe to toe with the big boys.
]]>Bethesda has announced that next week on January 17, it will release the largest update yet to Starfield.
]]>A group of dedicated Starfield alien hunters claims to have located and photographed over 200 unique creatures while exploring the cosmos, a number that’s pretty breathtaking in comparison to other Bethesda games if accurate.
]]>If you’re anything like me, there’s one faction in Starfield that you wish Bethesda had dedicated a bit more time to - House Va'ruun. If so, then you might be interested in the fact a pair of modders are working on fleshing out the mysterious faction’s arsenal of unique weapons.
]]>If you think the one big thing missing from Starfield is a touch of Bungie shooter magic (ok, you probably don’t, but bear with me), a new mod that adds Destiny 2’s Exos to it as a playable race is definitely worth checking out.
]]>Bethesda has already said some new ways of getting around are coming to Starfield in 2024, but one modder has still decided to take matters into their own hands and begin developing a means of letting players get behind the controls of the game’s abandoned mechs.
]]>Starfield won Steam's user-voted "most innovative gameplay award," only there are plenty of fans that don't even understand why.
]]>I can’t wait to see the looks on their goofy little faces.
]]>Bethesda has shared a few facts and figures about Starfield to round off the year, as well as provided an insight into what we can expect from the game in 2024.
]]>Following Starfield’s latest update, Bethesda has now revealed that it’s got plenty of plans for the RPG next year, including some fresh features headlined by some “all new ways of travelling”.
]]>Working for the UC Vanguard in Starfield is no easy feat. You’ll be sent to practice your social skills as you forge allies with other factions, and will also be practicing your skills in battle as you fend off multiple Terrormorphs. All in all, your mission will see you trying to put an end to the Terrormorph invasion on the Settled Systems, and it’s rewarding work.
]]>Sorry folks, Starfield’s latest update aims to do away with the infamous and quite cute pet rock bug that’s been entertaining players to no end since they first started exploring the cosmos.
]]>“Modding starts as a hobby and mods are passion projects for most people when they get started,” modder Emmi Junkkari, whom you may know by the handle Elianora, tells me.
]]>Those of you that haven't started New Game+ in Starfield yet might want to be careful, as there appears to be a bug causing crashes in long-running save files.
]]>One of the modders behind popular multiplayer mod Skyrim Together has revealed that they started work on something similar for Starfield, but have since abandoned its development after finding the game wasn’t to their liking.
]]>Warning: Spoilers for Starfield lie ahead.
]]>If you’ve spent most of your time with Starfield so far creating and customising a fleet of spacefaring craft in the ship builder, a new mod is offering you the chance to turn your hobby into a career for your character.
]]>If you’re planning to spend the festive period sinking even more hours in Starfield, then you’ll be glad to know that a freshly-released update to a popular mod will now let you transform your ship into a suitably festive craft.
]]>Rockstar Games has just delivered a swanky graphic confirming that GTA 6’s first trailer is coming on December 5. Yes, that’s next Tuesday.
]]>Xbox is cheekily teasing that it has some “important announcements” planned for this year’s Game Awards show, which seems like a good plan following what’s been a bit of a bumpy 2023 for the publisher.
]]>Sure, everyone loves setting up a cosy little outpost on a distant planet, but what you really want in Starfield is to be able to set up your home in a random public place that makes no practical sense. Thanks to a new mod, the good news is that you can now do just that!
]]>Starfield hasn’t achieved the kind of universal critical claim many had anticipated it would, with even hardcore fans having admitted that it didn’t deserve to be in the running for a Game of the Year award. As a result it’s amassed a fair amount of negative reviews, some of which Bethesda has now bizarrely started replying to.
]]>Unless you’re really embracing the introvert trait, odds are you’ve chatted to more NPCs than you can count during your adventures in Starfield to this point. Well, thanks to a new mod, you’ve now got the option to continue being friendly without having to get so up-close and personal.
]]>If you found Starfield’s vanilla outpost building system to be a bit of a disappointment, a new mod might be able to help reinvigorate your desire to colonise half the galaxy, by giving you the chance to become a heartless corporate investor.
]]>Update 1.8.86 for Starfield has officially arrived and, in addition to bringing Nvidia DLSS support to the masses, it includes a new mechanic that’ll let you immediately consume every food or drink item you come across.
]]>If you fancy playing as a terrifying, cyberware-infused mercenary in Starfield - rather than just a regular terrifying mercenary - a recently released mod might be able to help via some mechanics and gear inspired by Cyberpunk 2077.
]]>If you’re in search of a way to add an extra element of challenge to your adventures in Starfield, one of the latest mods to hit the Nexus will do just that by giving your character a bunch of realistic needs to keep track of.
]]>While there are plenty of aspects of Starfield that arguably don’t quite live up to the hype, the game still has lots of interesting stuff tucked away for intrepid explorers to find. The latest discovery players have made is a bizarre creature that can deprive foes of oxygen as a defence mechanism.
]]>The list of titles that’ll fight it out for the title of Game of the Year at this year’s Game Awards arrived yesterday and doesn’t include Starfield. Somewhat surprisingly, one party that doesn’t seem to have been shocked or offended by the omission of Bethesda’s RPG is its dedicated Reddit community.
]]>We already knew that Starfield’s protagonist was once in line to be voiced rather than silent - but it turns out that the voice actors who ended up providing Sam Coe and Andreja’s dulcet tones actually recorded lines for the role.
]]>The team behind the Starfield Community Patch, a modding project aimed at providing fixes for issues with the game that haven’t yet been ironed out by official patches, claim that a lack of modding support for the game is making this task tougher.
]]>Warning: Spoilers for Starfield’s main story lie ahead
]]>If you’ve been impatiently waiting for Starfield to get Nvidia DLSS support and are a PC player, then here’s some good news. It’s set to arrive via a Steam Beta update next week.
]]>If, like me, your Starfield character prides themselves on being one of the top pilots in the Settled Systems and has reduced scores of ships to wreckage, a new mod looks like a great addition to your load order.
]]>If you’re keen on trying to become the foremost dodgy space scoundrel in Starfield’s Settled Systems, a true rogue with their fingers in as many illegal pies as possible, well, a new mod looks to let you take your unlawful exploits to the next level.
]]>If you’re sick of setting up bases on the surfaces of Starfield’s planets, well, a new mod will let you have a crack at building yourself a cosy space station home.
]]>According to former Bethesda dev Bruce Nesmith, pretty much all decisions about the team's games "run through" Todd Howard, even if the studio head doesn't want that.
]]>Those who’ve been waiting to be able to grab a Starfield mod that rectifies many of the minor bugs and issues that Bethesda hasn’t quite gotten to yet are in luck; the first version of the game’s community patch is here.
]]>Microsoft has shared its financial results for the opening segment of the 2024 fiscal year, with the numbers pointing to record gaming revenue across the quarter for Xbox, though hardware sales have seen a slight drop.
]]>Pretty much everyone who’s played Starfield has returned to Earth, either to pursue a mission or just out of curiosity, and a new mod aims to ensure that those touching down on humanity’s home planet won’t be left disappointed.
]]>“Look at his face,” modder Kevin Brock, aka Trainwiz, says of Thomas the Tank Engine, when I ask him why he thinks the wholesome locomotive has become such a pervasive running gag within modding communities.
]]>It’s frustrating to put in all of the work required to steal or commandeer a ship in Starfield, only to have the game forbid you from sliding into the pilot’s seat for whatever reason. Thankfully, with a recently released mod, you won’t have to worry about that any longer.
]]>While EAFC 24 is riding pretty high, having topped the European sales charts during September, its launch performance in the region is lagging a bit behind that of predecessor FIFA 23.
]]>The September 2023 industry report is in from Circana (formerly NPD), and according to the data, the best-selling game for the month in the US was Starfield.
]]>As it turns out, Starfield’s Crimson Fleet, the Settled Systems’ most feared band of interstellar pirates do actually look to have a fair amount in common with their counterparts from real world history.
]]>Starfield lead quest designer Will Shen has left Bethesda to join Something Wicked Games and work on upcoming RPG Wyrdsong.
]]>Bethesda's head of publishing, Pete Hines, has announced that he’s retiring from the company.
]]>While a lot of the mods that have arrived for Starfield to this point are aimed at making useful quality-of-life tweaks and improvements to the game’s vanilla mechanics, there are already a couple of truly bizarre ones, with a new work taking the hilarity to a whole new level.
]]>The latest patch for Starfield arrived yesterday, but it's not really worth getting excited about as most of what's changed is pretty insignificant.
]]>As with what seems like 99% of open world games for the last decade and a bit, Starfield has plenty to offer when it comes to transforming the array of intergalactic junk you’ve picked up into something vaguely useful.
]]>Whether you’re collecting some valuable resources, seeking out a pirate-infested facility to raid, or are just really into examining geographical features, exploring planets is one of Starfield’s main draws, and a new mod eliminates the most frustrating aspect of it.
]]>If you’re dissatisfied with the loot you’ve been getting from Starfield’s Starborn, a new mod is well worth giving a look.
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