Today’s the dayBethesdacrack open the humongous blast shields at their base in Rockville, Maryland, finally taking the brave step of plonking their back catalogue and future games fully onto Steam after six years of trying to make their own launcher happen. Don’t worry, you’ll have the option to transfer over your games, saves and Wallet balance until May 11th. You’ll have to redownload everything unfortunately, but any game you happen to own via the Bethesda.net Launcher should appear as a free purchase on a linked Steam account.
We’veknown since Februarythat Bethesda was planning to bin their launcher in favour of Valve’s vastly more popular storefront. If you’ve ever used the Bethesda.net Launcher and still need to check how to go about transferring your games, then there’san FAQ over at Bethesda’s sitethat can help start you off. It was last updated two weeks ago but Bethesda say more details are coming later on today.
Bethesda have some pretty big projects in the works. Foremost among them isStarfield, which will be available on Steam even if it’s nowexclusively a Microsoft jointlike The Elder Scrolls 6. Graham had a listen to themost recent update on Starfieldyesterday when composer Inon Zur and audio director Mark Lampert shared some details on how music and sound feature in the game. Bethesda have also toutedon Twitterthat they’re adding some classic Elder Scrolls and Wolfenstein games to Steam, including Daggerfall and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, which is always good to see.
You can stilldownload the Bethesda Launcherat the Bethesda Softworks site if you want to store a copy on your ‘puter for posterity. Quickly, though – you’ve only got two weeks left to access it.
