Starfield rumors are flying fast and free ahead of this year’s E3. Most recently, Jeff Grubb spoke of Starfield on The Games Mess, saying that sources are expecting an E3 gameplay reveal but not to expect a release until next year. Now we’re getting confirmation from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier to “keep their expectations in check” and that “Starfield is nowhere near done.”
“Rumors like this keep floating around but Starfield is nowhere near done, according to several people familiar with development. It’ll be at E3 but the planned release date I’ve heard is way later than most people expect,” Schreirer wrote on Twitter. “Sharing this so that folks keep their expectations in check.”
He added that the Starfield development was “very small until 2019” and that most of Bethesda Game Studios had been working on Fallout 76 until very recently. Any rumors of Starfield originally having a 2020 release window are just flat-out untrue.
Most of what we know about Starfield is based on rumors and hearsay. About all we can say for sure is that it’s going to be some sort of open-world survival game where the player wears a spacesuit and flies around in space, and we only know that thanks to leaked images showing what is most likely the game’s UI. Although those images were reportedly from an early 2018 build and it’s entirely possible that the game has changed wildly since then.
Bethesda’s Todd Howard confirmed that Starfield will be completely single-player, have no microtransactions, and have a procedurally generated map, but that’s about it from official sources.
Unofficially, Microsoft has already purchased ad space for the game to start hyping it up ahead of a 2022 release window. And Starfield might just have Tom Cruise as the star, according to another rumor that’s been floating around.
Hey, if Cyberpunk 2077 can have Keanu, why can’t Starfield have Tom Cruise?
