obsidian entertainment

Bethesda Game Studios has confirmed that Fallout 5 is in pre-production and that Obsidian Entertainment is developing a separate, new Fallout project with Bethesda. The announcement ends years of speculation around whether Microsoft would ever put the Fallout: New Vegas studio back on the...

Microsoft’s July 6 Xbox restructuring has now reached Obsidian Entertainment in Irvine, California, where PC Gamer and Kotaku report that roughly 60 to 70 employees were laid off, including veteran developers, recent hires, artists, designers, writers, producers, QA staff, and engineers. The...

Obsidian Entertainment’s reckoning after a bruising 2025 is as much about spreadsheets as it is about skylines, spaceship hulls and inventory screens: two of the studio’s biggest RPGs — Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 — fell short of Microsoft’s sales expectations, while the smaller, faster-lived...