Bethesda’s Quantum Leap

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Bethesda Game Studios needs to turn its reputation around. The teaser trailer for the sequel to the 2011 blockbuster The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim landed in 2018; no concrete news followed. Fallout has reached a wider audience as a TV series, but the 2018 multiplayer misfire Fallout 76 left many fans of 2015’s Fallout 4 baying for blood. 2023’s Starfield, which introduced astronauts to the homesteading and dungeon crawls of Bethesda’s other games, matched...