Obsidian Entertainment
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The Outer Worlds reaches 5m copies sold | News-in-brief
The Obsidian title, published by Private Division, originally released in 2019 before a PS5 and Xbox Series X|S launch last March
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What can we learn from newly enacted salary transparency laws?
We peruse the job listings of publishers and developers across California and Washington following new pay laws
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Obsidian's Grounded picked up for TV series
Adaptation to be headed by Star Wars: Clone Wars writer Brent Friedman
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Obsidian CEO on acquisitions: "Find a partner who's going to be all-in"
Feargus Urquhart offers advice on successful mergers and acquisitions, and why Obsidian joined Microsoft
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Grounded: A big experimental adventure made by Obsidian's tiniest team
Game director Adam Brennecke talks about his 16 years at the studio, and how a history of RPG development led to a backyard survival game
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The Outer Worlds wins GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game
Obsidian's interplanetary adventure included an openly asexual companion character, Parvati
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The Outer Worlds wins Nebula Award for Game Writing
Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds were among other nominees
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Exploring new frontiers of color with The Outer Worlds
Art director Daniel Alpert discusses the visually striking approach to Obsidian's latest RPG
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The Outer Worlds will be digital-only on Switch
Launches March 6, retail version will contain a download code
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Games of the Year 2019: The Outer Worlds
Obsidian Entertainment's RPG showed what the studio can achieve with the time and space to express its talent
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Blending comedy with capitalism in The Outer Worlds
Obsidian's senior designer Brian Heins also discusses why tougher moral choices are more interesting
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Obsidian has been "very careful" not to "lecture" players with politics in Outer Worlds
"I don't want people to think this is a really hard, politically-charged game," says co-director Leonard Boyarsky
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Alpha Protocol removed from Steam as music rights expire
Update: Sega says it still owns the IP, but nine-year-old game contains songs that would need re-licensing
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Microsoft to acquire RPG specialists Obsidian Entertainment and InXile
Pillars of Eternity, Fallout New Vegas and Wasteland 3 creators join to boost Game Pass
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Microsoft in talks to buy Obsidian - Report
Xbox outfit closing in on a deal for Pillars of Eternity developer with one source telling Kotaku it's "a matter of when, not if"
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Pillars of Eternity II director on Obsidian's shift from studio-for-hire to building its own IP
Working on your own IP is "less about the freedom and more about the institutional knowledge to understand what the IP is"
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Obsidian Entertainment: "No microtransactions, of any kind, in our game"
Developer addresses consumer concerns following recent partnership with Take-Two Interactive's indie publishing arm, Private Division
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Pillars of Eternity II closes Fig campaign with $4.4 million
Obsidian's sequel eclipsed Psychonauts 2's $3.8 million record, and set a record for most backers: 33,614
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My.com takes over Armored Warfare development from Obsidian
Creative differences between developer, publisher and MailRU reportedly to blame
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Niantic gigantic as Pokemon dominates the news again
Weekly Roundup: Obsidian talks survival, Yang lambastes Twitch and Nintendo's market value eclipses Sony's thanks to AR
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Obsidian Entertainment: Survival, success and independence
CEO Feargus Urquhart on 13 years in AAA development - "We just want to be in a financial situation where we're not worried all the time"
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Leonard Boyarsky joins Obsidian Entertainment
Troika Games co-founder departs Blizzard, finds new role
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Pillars of Eternity sells 500,000
Including Kickstarter backer rewards, Obsidian's latest RPG has sold half a million copies worldwide
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Chris Avellone leaves Obsidian
Co-founder of Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas developer departs after 12 years
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Obsidian acquires Pathfinder rights
"We're thrilled to get to play in the Pathfinder universe"