Microsoft buys Skyrim and Fallout company Bethesda

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All of ZeniMax Media is becoming part of Xbox

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Bethesda, the publisher and studios behind Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series, is joining Xbox.

Microsoft announced on the official Xbox Wire blog that it had entered an agreement to purchase ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks - which itself owns Skyrim studio Bethesda Game Works, Doom studio id, Dishonored studio Arkane, and many more. Microsoft confirmed that titles from across Bethesda's catalog will soon join Xbox Game Pass, including Bethesda Game Studios' eagerly awaited next title Starfield.

"Just as they took the bold first steps to bring The Elder Scrolls franchise to the original Xbox, Bethesda were early supporters of Xbox Game Pass, bringing their games to new audiences across devices and have been actively investing in new gaming technology like cloud streaming of games," Phil Spencer wrote in the announcement.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.