E3 2021 rolled into its second day Sunday when Microsoft and Bethesda made their highly anticipated joint showcase debut, nine months after their $7.5 billion acquisition deal was announced.
Bethesda, maker of the critically acclaimed «Elder Scrolls,» «Fallout» and «Doom» gaming franchises, was one of the largest privately held video game developers on the planet before it merged with Microsoft’s Xbox Gaming Studios earlier this year. The combined entities finally revealed a date for the long-awaited release of Bethesda’s » Starfield » space odyssey, which the developer announced almost three years ago. Xbox opened its showcase with extended footage of Starfield. The game won’t be available to play until November 2022. Gamers also got a preview of «Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl.» The first-person shooter set in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
