Obsidian Entertainment studios

2026-07-07 1 story

• Xbox Layoffs Announced: 1600 Now, 1600 More into 2028, Four Studios Leave and id Software Reportedly Gutted 20 sources

2026-07-06 1 story

• Report: Obsidian losing around one quarter of its staff to 'Xbox reset' 4 sources

2026-07-02 1 story

• Is yet another Microsoft studio, Obsidian, negotiating with Xbox to avoid closure? Conflicting reports emerge 8 sources

2026-07-01 1 story

• With Xbox Speeding Up Work on New Fallout Games, One Former Bethesda Dev Warns Faster Sequels 'Risk Fan Fatigue' — but Could New Vegas Developer Obsidian Be Drafted in to Help?

2026-06-29 4 stories

• With a dumpster-truck full of cash, New Vegas director Josh Sawyer would probably make a 'spiritual successor' to a crunchy 1992 RPG
• New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says games can and should pull on artistic inspirations from 'anywhere and everywhere': 'Greek plays, they knocked it out of the park thousands of years ago—why not look at them?'
• Fallout: New Vegas Director Says Amazon's Fallout Show Is 'One of the Best Adaptations of a Video Game Franchise' — and No, He Isn't Bothered by Dinky Facing the Wrong Way
• A Disco Elysium writer once told Josh Sawyer that 'we can do better than this now,' and Sawyer agrees

2026-06-28 2 stories

• Josh Sawyer says the Fallout TV show is an 'amazing adaptation' of a videogame, and 'one of the best that I've seen'
• Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says Obsidian has 'Karma Police' who go through games making sure every skill gets enough cool stuff to do: 'We're not gonna leave you out to dry'

2026-06-26 1 story

• Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says the NCR and Caesar's Legion feel so real because their members disagree and challenge each other: 'You have to wrestle with the fact that it contains multitudes'

2026-06-24 1 story

• Knights of the Old Republic 2 was great because it peeled back Star Wars' black-and-white morality

2026-06-23 1 story

• "A systematic pattern of wage and hour violations": Xbox RPG studio Obsidian is facing a class action lawsuit, denies "each and every allegation"

2026-06-19 1 story

• The Outer Worlds 2 studio Obsidian accused of "violating state wage and hour laws" for profit in California lawsuit

2026-06-16 1 story

• Microsoft reportedly negotiating closures of multiple Xbox studios, including Psychonauts' Double Fine, South of Midnight's Compulsion and Hellblade's Ninja Theory 7 sources

2026-06-15 1 story

• BioWare's co-founder fought to make Baldur's Gate 3 for over a decade, then Larian did it instead: 'I don't really get jealous'

2026-06-12 1 story

• Even with PS5 Ports, Many of Xbox's Games Have Been Underperfoming

2026-06-10 1 story

• Here's What's In The 'Premium Upgrade' Editions For Fable, Gears & Halo On Xbox

2026-06-09 1 story

• Xbox console exclusives are returning on a 'case-by-case' basis 3 sources

2026-06-05 1 story

• PS5 Ports from Microsoft Continue with Grounded 2, Out in August

2026-06-04 1 story

• I never change weapons in RPGs, which means I've made Obsidian director Josh Sawyer's life a living hell when it comes to making cool armour systems

2026-06-01 1 story

• The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition continues to cause headaches as Obsidian somehow botches free upgrade deployment on consoles

2026-05-30 2 stories

• Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 30-31)
• Free PS5 Upgrade Codes Sent to The Outer Worlds Owners After Obsidian Cock Up

2026-05-29 2 stories

• Microsoft Responds to The Outer Worlds 'Free' Upgrade Confusion
• Best new Xbox Game Pass games to play this weekend (May 29-31)

2026-05-28 1 story

• The Outer Worlds Dev Alters Free Xbox & PS5 Upgrade Due To 'Platform Limitations' 3 sources

2026-05-27 3 stories

• Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (May 27)
• The Outer Worlds has been delisted, but players can carry saves into Spacer’s Choice Edition on Game Pass
• "Other ideas ... had to just fall by the wayside": Fallout: New Vegas director says Obsidian had to limit the RPG's scope due to a time crunch

2026-05-26 1 story

• Here are our PS Plus monthly games for June, with an Xbox title headlining 7 sources

2026-05-25 1 story

• Fallout: Siege of New Vegas Trailer Drops Action-Packed Reveal

2026-05-19 2 stories

• Here's our next batch of Xbox Game Pass titles for May 7 sources
• Tom Kane, voice actor whose work spanned Star Wars: KOTOR to The Powerpuff Girls' dad, dies aged 64

2026-05-12 1 story

• Discord Nitro subscribers to receive "starter edition" of Xbox Game Pass through new partnership

2026-05-05 1 story

• Fallout Co-Creator Thinks Gamers Are Letting Influencers Tell Them What to Think

2026-05-02 1 story

• The Outer Worlds will soon be removed from stores — but there's a catch

2026-05-01 1 story

• The Outer Worlds Is Getting Grenades, Nearly 7 Years After It Came Out 5 sources

2026-04-30 1 story

• As Xbox fans push for Microsoft to return to exclusive games, analysts report they're the "number one reason" players use consoles — "41% of respondents cited that"

2026-04-28 1 story

• Fallout co-creator wants to make one last game before he retires 'for the second time' 2 sources

2026-04-27 2 stories

• Obsidian caused some trouble by using the Rorschach Test in Fallout: New Vegas: 'Those folks came to Bethesda and said we're gonna have a fun lawsuit on our hands, so pony up!'
• Fallout: New Vegas dev argues it was a mistake to make Wild Wasteland part of character creation: 'I'm gonna choose that no matter what. Because I don't want to miss a damn thing'

2026-04-25 1 story

• A minor Fallout: New Vegas quest got its own ending slide because the team was transfixed by the choice where you make the NCR's worst soldiers take Psycho

2026-04-24 1 story

• Fresh off the news that Xbox is cutting Game Pass pricing, reports emerge of a new "Starter Edition" tier that bundles in a Discord sub 7 sources

2026-04-22 2 stories

• Fallout: New Vegas dev says Bethesda made the studio sit through 'a whole powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong' 2 sources
• Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could've been set in New Orleans because 'the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would've been] so sweet'

2026-04-21 1 story

• Bethesda doesn’t have ‘the engineering know-how’ to remaster Fallout New Vegas, former Obsidian CCO says

2026-04-20 2 stories

• Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'
• After 15 years and 323 hours, I've finally beaten Fallout: New Vegas, and this game doesn't need mods as much as you think it does

2026-04-16 1 story

• The Outer Worlds and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag share an unlikely lesson: we make our own pirates