Xbox boss Phil Spencer is likely playing Starfield at the moment

starfield Although it won’t be released until September 6th, Xbox boss Phil Spencer already seems to be playing the massive space role-playing game.

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The Xbox app has a section called “Popular with Friends” that shows you the games your friends are playing. It can be a handy little tool to bother your friends about their progress Diablo IV or teasing them for their refusal to stop gambling Overwatch 2 (It’s me, I’m that friend).

But Based on an image shared on Reddit

It looks like at least one person has early access to it starfield: Phil Spencer. The shared screenshot shows Spencer’s Xbox profile picturean Xbox avatar version of him (note that he’s also wearing a t-shirt and jeans, so it’s according to lore) against a purple background, both underneath starfield And exoprimala dinosaur shooter developed by Capcom and released for Xbox Game Pass on July 14th.

While Spencer plays exoprimal checks how the game just started, its apparent access starfield

is interesting. It makes sense though – Spencer and Todd Howard have since worked closely together to promote the upcoming Bethesda RPG Microsoft bought Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax in 2021. At At the Summer Game Fest they met for a press presentation alongside Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty and Xbox gaming ecosystem head Sarah Bond. If you’re the boss of Xbox, you can have a little bit of it starfield Early Access as a reward.

After several delays starfield finally coming out this fall. The “irresponsibly big game”, like Pete Hines called it during his FTC testimony last monthfeatures space combat, extensive ship customization, 1,000 worlds and over 250,000 lines of dialogue, as we learned during the firmly starfield Straight from the Summer Game Fest.

Based on the Reddit post, it appears Spencer may have played starfield on July 14, the day it was announced that the The FTC failed to stop Microsoft’s $69 million purchase of Activision. Perhaps he celebrated the long struggle by hopping from planet to planet starfield, his mind is finally free from worrying about whether or not Microsoft would get another gem in its gaming Infinity Gauntlet. In space no one can hear you howl.