{"id":476857,"date":"2026-02-19T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476857\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:11:08","slug":"todd-howard-shuts-down-starfield-2-0-claims-and-promises-more-news-soonish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476857\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Howard Shuts Down ‘Starfield 2.0’ Claims and Promises More News ‘Soonish’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Todd Howard of Bethesda Game Studios<\/a> has put a spanner in the works of everyone hoping for a Starfield<\/a> resurgence by closing down claims that \u2018Starfield 2.0\u2019 is on the horizon (or the event horizon? Space joke).<\/p>\n

Recently, those who attended behind-closed-doors sessions hosted by Bethesda were quickly taking to social media to pledge the imminent evolution of the game, but Todd Howard wants to set expectations straight. He has done so in a new interview by stressing that everything going forward will be about Starfield.<\/p>\n

Bethesda Game Studios is Focusing Big Time on Starfield<\/p>\n

Starfield hasn\u2019t exactly had the most love from Bethesda Game Studios. The game dropped in September 2023, and despite claims of a yearly DLC release schedule, we\u2019ve had just one expansion land \u2013 Shattered Space. That expansion was known about long before the game came out, but by today, the game\u2019s second expansion hasn\u2019t been unveiled by the company behind the space-faring RPG.<\/p>\n

Like other Bethesda titles, Starfield has relied heavily on the modding community to keep the content flowing.<\/p>\n

However, now that the Fallout TV show has wrapped and Bethesda is looking to make Fallout 76\u2019s content updates less ambitious, more focus can be applied to Starfield. In a recent interview with Kinda Funny, that\u2019s exactly what Howard alluded to:<\/p>\n

Obviously, we\u2019ve been working on a lot of Starfield content, we haven\u2019t talked about it yet. The end of last year for us was prickly, for us \u2013 we have periods where we focus on IPs and franchises, and Fallout obviously dominated the fall and earlier this year, but you\u2019ve seen it. <\/p>\n

And I can tell everybody we\u2019re gonna be talking about it really soon. We\u2019re moving into a phase where we\u2019re going to be talking about Starfield and really show that in the right way.<\/p>\n

He then shut down the rumors and claims about Starfield 2.0, the sought-after next level of the sci-fi RPG that everyone believes would make it worth playing again.<\/p>\n

It is not Starfield 2.0 \u2013 I\u2019ve seen some of that, and for expectation setting \u2013 I think it\u2019s the kinda thing where \u2013 if you like Starfield, we think you\u2019re going to love this. It\u2019s updates and things that change the game, not in an isolated way, but you know \u2018meta\u2019 \u2013 using outer space and things in ways that we haven\u2019t. <\/p>\n

But if Starfield is something that didn\u2019t connect with you right away, or you bounced off it, or found it boring in places \u2013 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to change that fundamentally, but if you\u2019re someone who loves Starfield and we think, we\u2019re really happy with it.<\/p>\n

(Thanks to DayOne<\/a> for the quotes)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Starfield is in dire need of a resurgence, especially as we\u2019re not getting a new Fallout game for many years and The Elder Scrolls 6 doesn\u2019t seem to be surfacing any time soon. Once upon a time, Starfield was the most hotly anticipated game in the business, but now it feels ready to be forgotten.<\/p>\n

Do you want to see more energy funnelled into making Starfield great again? Let us know what you\u2019re thinking on the Insider Gaming Discord server<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more Insider Gaming coverage, check out the news that Escape from Tarkov has a new roadmap<\/a><\/p>\n


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