A scene from Starfield.

Bethesda’s Todd Howard gives us another glimpse of Starfield

Todd Howard, head of Bethesda Game Studios, showed off some new scenes from Starfield, the highly anticipated sci-fi role-playing game coming for Xbox.

Howard showed a sceen on the rugged landscape of the planet Kreet, where a human astronaut encounters some big crawling creatures — and chooses not to shoot. The astronaut has a cutting tool. Then the scene flies to the view of the Kreet Research Lab, a giant facility on the rocky landscape.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.