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Whatever the Fallout TV show does with New Vegas lore, Josh Sawyer doesn’t care: “It was never mine”
The Obsidian design director on Pillars of Eternity II burnout and living with dead projects
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Bethesda's Todd Howard clarifies the fate of Shady Sands in the Fallout TV show timeline
Obsidian's New Vegas very much still part of Fallout history
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No, the Fallout TV show hasn't written Fallout: New Vegas out of history, says Bethesda design director
Senior developer responds to fan outcry over blackboard scene
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Obsidian's espionage RPG Alpha Protocol returns to store shelves after four years in license hell
Maybe still my favourite Obsidian game?
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You'll soon be able to play Sea Of Thieves with PlayStationeers, and Grounded with PlayPals and Switchers
Cross-platform multiplayer confirmed as Microsoft bring Xbox games to more consoles
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More Avowed details: it's a classless RPG with easy respeccing and "open zones" comparable to Outer Worlds
Obsidian gives an extended breakdown of its Xbox Developer Direct presentation
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Avowed release date, story, gameplay, and more
Here's everything we know about this action-orientated take on the Pillars of Eternity universe
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Everything announced at today's Xbox Developer Direct 2024
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, Avowed and more
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All today's Xbox Developer Direct 2024 streams in one place
Avowed! Hellblade 2! Ara! Diablo 4! Elder Scrolls! Indiana Jones!
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Xbox Developer Direct on January 18th will offer an update on Indiana Jones
Plus Avowed and Hellblade 2
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Tim Cain has taken his Fallout and The Outer Worlds dev stories to YouTube - and he's having a great time
The semi-retired Cain tells us that “there is so much about being a game director that is not fun”
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Obsidian's Josh Sawyer wants to do Pillars of Eternity 3 with Baldur's Gate 3's budget
But not Baldur's Gate 3's camera, thanks
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Obsidian "really pushed" Avowed as a co-op RPG, pivoted to single player in eight months
"We weren't focused on the things that we're best at"
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Fallout: New Vegas mod adds a murderous psychic tumbleweed to your party
Windy the tumbleweed "may coerce you into committing senseless, unspeakably brutal acts of violence"