They say that the best things take time, and that's certainly presumed to be proven as Starfield comes out in September - Bethesda Softworks' first new IP in decades. But, as it turns out, the idea to go venturing off into a thousand or so worlds (with the FPS capped on consoles - sorry!) wasn't the only one that Howard had sat on as Bethesda churned out one award-winning The Elder Scrolls and Fallout installment after another.
Apparently, the idea for the new Indiana Jones game came straight from Howard, who has tried to sell the game for years - to no avail.
As part of the ongoing FTC court probe into the Xbox-Activision deal, Bethesda's head of publishing, Pete Hines, revealed a few key details of the project in an internal email where he notes that Howard "has been trying to get this game made for over a decade," before describing Howard as the "biggest Indiana Jones fan on the planet."
Of course, it's one thing to have a fellow top executive go to bad for you - it's another thing to deliver, and that's exactly what happened.
