Prolific RPG developer Tim Cain – who has credits on everything from Fallout and Arcanum to Vampire: The Masquerade and The Outer Worlds – has ended his semi-retirement to re-join Obsidian Entertainment.
Cain reveals as much in his newest YouTube video. "I'm back at Obsidian," he says. "I'm their full-time employee and in-person, so not remote. I'm not a contractor anymore. This means I'm not working at other places," he continues, mentioning that there are a few non-Obsidian games he was contracted on that may or may not see the light of day in the future.
"I also can't talk about the project I'm working on at Obsidian just because that's covered under an NDA," Cain goes on. "Don't bother guessing; you're not gonna guess right." That last part probably rules out the possibility of a Fallout: New Vegas 2 since Obsidian devs know how much you want a follow-up from them.
Regardless, Cain says he's "a lot less retired now than I was before." He's only been back at the Xbox Game Studios team for about a week, mind, but that was enough time for him to get an Outer Worlds 2 moon man tattoo after the game's launch party, according to him.
The RPG icon, of course, has a long history with Obsidian, having been a full-time employee between 2011 and 2020. He directed the first The Outer Worlds and returned as a creative consultant on this year's sequel, too.
And, for anyone curious, his informative YouTube channel about behind-the-scenes game dev stories will continue. At least, as of right now, no one's asked him to stop.
