The Outer Worlds 2 dev says "it was quite a shock" to get bought by a giant corporation like Microsoft while making a game about how evil giant corporations are

The Outer Worlds 2.

Whether you call it psychic intuition or just the way the world works, The Outer Worlds devs were a little spooked when a megacorporation gobbled up their studio while it was working on a game about how predatory megacorporations are.

Speaking to Edge for its issue 414, The Outer Worlds co-creator and The Outer Worlds 2 creative director Leonard Boyarsky remembers "it was quite a shock" when Microsoft purchased developer Obsidian in 2018 to sit under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella.