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… To make matters worse, it's now being reported that Xbox Game Studios head Craig Duncan has stepped down as per The Game Business . It was his job to oversee studios like Obsidian, Halo Studios, and Double Fine, so this doesn't bode well for any Xbox-owned studio. …
… Sign in to your TheGamer account Obsidian Entertainment was one of many studios affected in Xbox's recent mass layoffs, with the California-based studio reportedly losing over 50 employees in this purge. …
… It appears studios like Obsidian may now be superfluous to Xbox's goals, and the studio may have been given the option to go independent had they been directly owned by Xbox Game Studios, rather than Zenimax-Bethesda. …
… He just said there were no negotiations, and they're safe now." Related "Safe" Xbox Studios Are Now Facing Layoffs, Says Obsidian Co-Founder More evidence points to Xbox making cuts at beloved studios in its upcoming layoffs. …
… So, studios such as Compulsion, Ninja Theory, Double Fine, Obsidian, Undead Labs, a few of the Bethesda studios as well, are deep in negotiation with Microsoft to avoid closure." Developers Feel Punished For Call Of Duty Underperforming Dring further explained that, even if Obsidian had performed w… …
… But a quarter of the studio has been laid off, an entire project was canceled— after devs publicly expressed 'joy' over being able to work on their own IP —and the studio's autonomy has been completely ripped away. …
… "Stay strong, look out for one another, and we look forward to seeing us all marching together on the 15th" The locations for the rallies are as follows: ZeniMax in Austin, Texas, US ZeniMax in Rockville, Maryland, US id Software in Dallas, Texas, US Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, US Obsidian in… …
… It will apparently be led by Obsidian's studio design director Josh Sawyer, who was also the director for Fallout: New Vegas, so there's every possibility that it could end up being a semi-sequel. …
… This was all in aid of getting teams working on major IPs - with Obsidian now making a Fallout game, for example - but they've lost some major talent in the process, which might make this a tall order for these studios. …
… I struggle to think of a triple-A developer in the modern era more prolific than Obsidian. In an age where many studios struggle to release more than two games a decade, it has put out a vast assortment of excellent games that couldn’t be more different from one another. …