Todd Howard hails Starfield as "our best performing game" and Starfield redditors as "gaming's smartest fans"

Today is Starfield early access release day, providing you bought the pricier editions, and senior Bethesda boffins are feeling appropriately festive, and probably also totally exhausted. Bethesda Game Studios director and executive producer Todd Howard has sent an email to staff thanking them for their efforts and ruminating a bit on Starfield's "long and winding" development, which began with Howard chatting to ZeniMax Media's now-passed co-founder Robert Altman in the wake of Skyrim's enormous success. In the letter, obtained by Windows Central, Howard touches on the struggles of game development during the pandemic, and offers special applause to Starfield's QA teams, Xbox big cheese Phil Spencer, and the Xbox Advanced Technology Group, who pitched in to help make it the company's "best performing game" yet. The full thing is below: I knocked on Robert Altman's door. "Got a few minutes?" Read more