The game's original release date of 11 November 2022 was announced in the official teaser trailer on 13 June 2021 at E3. The auction was won by an unknown bidder for $15.4k. On February 23rd 2021, Bethesda Game Studios announced a charity auction for Make-a-Wish foundation where the prize was the opportunity to design a character for the game. Space travel is considered 'dangerous' in the sense of flight in the '40's within the game and inspiration has been sought from Elon Musk's SpaceX program. On March 8th 2021, the acquisition was approved in the EU. This is the second most expensive acquisition of all time, second only to Tencent's buyout of Supercell in 2016 for $8.6 billion. In September 2020, Microsoft announced its acquisition of the parent company of Bethesda Game Studios, Zenimax, for $7.5 billion. These include histories, backstories, and starship architecture. Howard further said, 'We've been talking about it for a decade, we started putting things on paper five, six years ago, and active development was from when we finished Fallout 4, so two and a half, three years.' Bethesda maintains its own internal wiki for Starfield, to which all of their employees have access. Todd Howard confirmed that Starfield has moved out of pre-production and is in a playable state. The game, however, was not formally announced until E3 2018 alongside The Elder Scrolls 6. Starfield was originally trademarked on the 13th September 2013. 300 years into the future, embark on an epic journey amongst the stars to answer humanity’s greatest mystery.

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