Xbox Head Phil Spencer Is Most likely Taking part in Starfield Proper Now

Starfield isn’t out till September 6, however Xbox head Phil Spencer already seems to be taking part in the huge spacefaring RPG.

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The Xbox app has a piece referred to as “standard with mates” that reveals you the video games your buddies are taking part in. It may be a useful little software for bothering your pals about their progress in Diablo IV or needling them over their refusal to cease taking part in Overwatch 2 (it’s me, I’m that pal).

However primarily based on an image shared on Reddit, it seems like at the very least one individual has early entry to Starfield: Phil Spencer. The screenshot shared reveals Spencer’s Xbox profile image, an Xbox Avatar model of him (discover he’s additionally carrying a t-shirt and denims, so it’s lore-accurate) in opposition to a purple background, beneath each Starfield and Exoprimal, a dinosaur shooter from Capcom that got here to Xbox Sport Cross on July 14.

Whereas Spencer taking part in Exoprimal checks out as the sport simply launched, his obvious entry to Starfield is attention-grabbing. It is smart, although—Spencer and Todd Howard have labored carefully collectively to advertise the upcoming Bethesda RPG ever since Microsoft purchased Bethesda’s dad or mum firm ZeniMax in 2021. At Summer time Sport Fest, they sat down for a press presentation alongside the pinnacle of Xbox Sport Studios, Matt Booty, and head of Xbox’s gaming ecosystem, Sarah Bond. In the event you’re the pinnacle of Xbox, you may have just a little Starfield early entry as a deal with.

After a number of delays, Starfield is lastly dropping this fall. The “irresponsibly massive sport,” as Pete Hines referred to as it throughout his FTC testimony final month, boasts area fight, in depth ship customization, 1,000 worlds and over 250,000 traces of dialogue, as we discovered through the large Starfield Direct from Summer time Sport Fest.

Primarily based on the Reddit submit, it looks like Spencer was taking part in Starfield on July 14, the day the information dropped that the FTC did not pause Microsoft’s $69 million buy of Activision. Possibly he was celebrating the prolonged battle by hopping from planet to planet in Starfield, his thoughts lastly free from fretting over whether or not Microsoft would get one other jewel in its gaming Infinity Gauntlet or not. In area, nobody can hear you gloat.