Obsidian shifts to new Fallout game
BREAKING: Obsidian Entertainment is making a big pivot as part of the Xbox restructuring. It has laid off a quarter of its staff, canceled a planned sequel to Avowed, and is now beginning work on a new Fallout game, according to people familiar with the plans www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Foxysenpai379I love New Vegas as much as a next guy but if Obsidian gets sent to the Fallout mines and is no longer allowed to work on original IPs, imma be pissed. I may be in a minority but I loved Avowed and Outer Worlds 1&2
PotagerMaximum161My condolendes to every Pillars of Eternity fan out there.
Matthew Borgard92BEGINNING work? So immediately canning things in progress for something that won't be done for 5-6 years, long after the show has surely lost steam? Wild.
Sebastian (Bash) 🌌76I love it when publishers force developers to cancel games they want to work on, so they can make something mandated by the threat of termination instead. Microsoft definitely know what they're doing.
David Paige43It still feels weird to me that Xbox acquired both Bethesda and Obsidian half a decade ago and no one thought, Fallout asap. I get that maybe not everyone employed in such companies wanted that, but like, come on.
tso41Prepare for the least daring fallout
Dragon Cobolt69This absolutely sucks, man I'm sure the people who survive at Obsidian are going to work as hard as they can to make a great game, but god, this sucks
NostalGeek7Il est tard. Il fait sombre dans les locaux d'Obsidian. La porte s'ouvre lentement, avec un grincement audible. Soudain, deux yeux vitreux illuminent l'obscurité ; puis une tête pleine de cheveux bouclés. C'est Todd. Il est revenu. Il murmure, d'une voix tremblante : "you guys remember gamebryo ?"
Joshua Keep6I know a lot of New Vegas fanatics will think this is awesome, but it's not. Lots of people lost their livelihoods, and the rest are shoved onto a project to work on something they recently said they didn't want to do. All while lighting their ongoing project on fire.
Little Miss Soylent Robot 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️5i want everyone who thinks we're getting New Vegas 2 to calm the fuck down. we're not getting that. we're getting the least risky most by the numbers fallout possible cos MS cannot allow a game to not aim for the widest audience possible. you thought FO4 was a bland waste of time get ready for this
Jacob Scherer4"Oh everyone wants another Obisidan-led Fallout? They want Josh Sawyer to do another New Vegas? Fine."
Frans Bouma4Yay! Instead of being allowed to make the game they wanted to make, they have to make yet another game in a long running series because upper management thinks that'll sell better. Greed trumps artistic freedom yet again. Booo
knuckztve2world's most cursedest monkey's paw curls a finger
Miquel2Obsidian haciendo un nuevo Fallout sería un megaton hace 10 años. Hoy es en plan: a ver si sale.
Bloomberg: Obsidian Entertainment cancels planned Avowed sequel and pivots to new Fallout title, led by New Vegas director Josh Sawyer ➡️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
TyrantⅡ7A rushed Fallout game under duress and without 25% of your workforce doesn't seem like something to celebrate to me. Man...
ferociousinferno.bsky.social6You forgot to mention the most important part, 1/4 of the staff got laid off.
RhysClark973This feels so hollow now.
aaronaway.bsky.social1The news I’ve dreamed about for over a decade…obsidians return to fallout…but at what cost 💀
Holly Green8Interesting. I know I should want this more than anything. And I guess I do. it's just hard to get hyped up about it atm
32盎司零糖怪兽5This is the most conflicting announcement for me
Balázs Farkas4One of the most erudite snd inventive designers is back in the toddslop content mill, meanwhile the studio that invented and perfected the first person shooter will be probably delegated to support Halo & CoD Miserable, man
☀️ Fran J. Ruiz ⌨3>Hudson and Sawyer doing more Old Republic and Fallout respectively
ValyriaN3Don't fuck this up too. Make a damn good Fallout game 🫠 Any other day i would be smiling and be happy about this but i just can't be happy with the bad news around Xbox and Playstation right now.. Genuinely don't fuck Fallout up is all i'm asking.
Polkadotdotdot | Alba Armoury2Yeah, great. They still laid off 1/4 of their staff though…
Bloomberg: Obsidian Entertainment cancels Avowed sequel, starts work on Fallout title amid layoffs www.gematsu.com/2026/07/bloo...
Change MdM23A Obsidian é formada por veteranos da indústria. Qndo eles têm liberdade pra criar maluquices eles conseguem fazer jogos legais, como o Pentiment, Grounded, The Outer Worlds e o próprio New Vegas. Se a expectativa da Microsoft é que eles passem a produzir jogos com resultados AAA vão quebrar a cara
NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞14Utterly fucking insulting; they decimated the studio - BUT! BUT!!! NEW VEGAS 2!!!!! There, done, no shut up you dumb hogs, you love your slop now don't you, ignore that the writers are gone, or the character artists, here's your jingling keys ohhhhhhhhhh they jingle jangle jingle!
Kayce 🏳️⚧️3I've seen this so much in games, movies, and TV.. the talking corpse of a lost loved one that's back and telling you things you want to hear.. it's never not evil. It's a trick, get an axe.
Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) 🔪2Yes please make a fallout title instead. This is mf’in music to my ears. 😮💨
Parker2This is "asked chatbot for advice" tier insane restructuring btw
I want to know the thought process of gutting 25% of Obsidian and then leaking it out that now they're going to make a Fallout game... just with 25% less staff than they had before and it probably needs to be out in record time.
Ross Weisfish1AI. They think with AI the devs can make games faster and cheaper. Corporate managers have totally bought into the lie.
Lexo1My guess is they’re hoping for a New Vegas situation where they can use Fallout 4’s engine to create a new game is a shorter amount of time. They could also just be putting out a NV remaster à la Oblivion. Either way this sucks all around, and I really hope they don’t out out like Black Isle again
I've always wanted another Fallout game by Obsidian, but at the cost of layoffs is basically a Monkey's Paw. With the Avowed sequel getting cancelled, I really hope we at least get a Pillars of Eternity 3. Since Pillars 1 is what got me into the cRPG genre in the first place.
Sam 🐦1I ain't the norm so I ain't gonna dwell on it especially with jobs but I didn't like avowed at all, I don't like that! But eh. I hope they can cook with a fallout again because it sucks thst they probably now have too. 😔
Nick1Maybe, if Xbox doesn't turn Obsidian into the Fallout studio.
electricblue1Guessing there’s probably really good reasons Obsidian didn’t want to make another Fallout
