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… Online, the response has included plenty of suggestions that Obsidian "already kind of gutted all the original writers and talent that made old Obsidian games what they were" and that it wasn't the same studio as the one that made games like the original New Vegas or Knights of the Old Republic 2. …
… Back in 2019, Obsidian senior designer Brian Hines told PCGamesN that "Obsidian is not a crunch studio, which is one of the things that keeps people staying there for a long time." Employees would occasionally be asked to put in additional hours "for a week or so", but this was "always a request" t… …
… Fallout: New Vegas, arguably Obsidian's most celebrated game, had its fair share of troubles, too. Bethesda gave Obsidian only 18 months to develop the RPG—the studio's largest and most ambitious project to date. …
… What's more, Obsidian is a legendary RPG studio, one with four games in our 2025 Top 100 list Pentiment, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Deadfire, and New Vegas . …
… We'll have more to share in the future." It also sounds like Fallout 5 is much further out than the Obsidian joint: Bethesda said that game is currently in pre-production, while the majority of the studio is focused on The Elder Scrolls 6. …
… A California WARN report shared by GameFile says 52 employees at Obsidian were let go in the layoffs, which Bloomberg says represents roughly a quarter of the studio's workforce. …
In a recent appearance on the Human Can Opener podcast , Obsidian design director Josh Sawyer talked about how the studio approached balance in Fallout: New Vegas, particularly with skill checks in dialogue and making sure different character builds got unique, cool reactivity throughout the game. …
… Atari Europe's sale to Bandai Namco put paid to that plan, ending Obsidian's discussions with the publisher. But a third studio began its own push soon afterwards: Oster's own Beamdog. …
Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer has made, if you don't mind my saying so, some pretty cool videogames. …
… Duncan led Sea of Thieves developer Rare for nearly 13 years before being promoted to head of Xbox Game Studios in 2024, which put the rest of Microsoft's studios under his stewardship, including Double Fine, Halo Studios, inXile, Obsidian, Playground Games, and The Coalition. …