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The Latest Breaking News from Carrie Patel

Now that I'm done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I'm expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

The baton isn't being passed as much as looted off a collapsed old hero.

PC Gamer

After 12 years bringing RPGs like The Outer Worlds and Pillars of Eternity to life, Avowed director leaves Obsidian for a beloved former indie that's now part of Netflix

Carrie Patel's moving to the Oxenfree studio, Night School

GamesRadar

Avowed director Carrie Patel leaves Obsidian after 12 years to join the Netflix studio behind Oxenfree

Night School's new project still hasn't been revealed, but at least now it has a director.

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Avowed game director leaves Obsidian Entertainment for Netflix's Night School Studio

Avowed game director Carrie Patel shared that she has left Obsidian Entertainment and is now a director at Netflix-owned Night School Studio.

Windows Central

Avowed director says Xbox and Microsoft are "very happy" with the reception to its new Obsidian RPG

Carrie Patel reveals the megacorp is happy with the number of people in Eora

GamesRadar

Avowed could have been Obsidian's Redfall, with a Destiny plus Skyrim co-op multiplayer vision scrapped early in a grueling 6-year development

The great game we got instead is apparently selling well, with DLC and a sequel on the table.

PC Gamer

Avowed director would "love to see us do more" with the RPG after laying the groundwork for sequels and DLC

Game director Carrie Patel has an appetite to continue cooking in Eora

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Avowed director didn't add romance as RPG players often try to cheese companion relationships and she wanted them to "feel natural"

"My hope with players and their companion relationships in Avowed is that they would feel natural," Carrie Patel says

GamesRadar

Dissecting Avowed's beautifully abstract artwork, and how it was made

A bold vision of fantasy and ambiguity – Skylight Collective's Executive Creative Director and Obsidian's Game Director explain how it was made.

Creative Bloq

'Avowed' Director Is Not Trying To Make Games That 'Fill Hundreds Of Hours'

Avowed director Carrie Patel explains the philosophy behind Obsidian's approach to open-world RPGs.

Inverse

Obsidian insisted that Avowed wouldn't have romance, but that wasn't quite true, because there's at least one eligible bachelor, and he's voiced by an iconic Mass Effect heartthrob

Could any more romance plots be hiding that we don't know about yet?

GamesRadar

Why 2025's Most Anticipated RPG Shares An Actor With Gaming's Best Sci-Fi Saga

Avowed's director and character artist talk about creating the game's companions and how to portray Pillars of Eternity's universe from a new perspective.

Inverse

Avowed won't have enemy scaling, director confirms, but it will have jank: "You gotta accept a little jank to do something fun and creative"

Welcome to the jank house

GamesRadar

Avowed director says about a third of the Pillars of Eternity developers are working on Obsidian's new action-RPG and teases crossover characters

Avowed will let Pillars of Eternity fans "see the world they got to know over two games in a big immersive space around them that they can explore"

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Avowed director confirms the game follows The Outer Worlds' lead to skip New Game Plus, but DLC is still a "maybe"

Anything's possible with post-launch support

Windows Central

Avowed confirmed to have 60 FPS on Xbox Series X

In a rapid-fire interview, it's been revealed that Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming RPG Avowed, launching February 18, 2025, will feature 60 FPS on Xbox Series X.

The Guardian - UK

Games to look forward to in 2025: Avowed

Fun combat, breezy banter and colourful characters promise to make this role playing game from Obsidian a must-play for fans of Skyrim

PC Gamer

You'll be able start 'almost every, if not every' quest in Obsidian's Avowed in multiple ways, so you can feel safe wandering around doing whatever

"We want to just constantly foster that sense of exploration, wanderlust"

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After Starfield's strict companions, I'm glad Avowed's crew won't be "backseat driving and second-guessing all your choices"

They'll still have lots to say about all your misadventures, though

PC Gamer

Watch Avowed's director set a new speed record for answering our questions about Obsidian's upcoming RPG

Carrie Patel joined The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted ahead of Avowed's release in February.

GamesRadar

Avowed's party camp feature captures what I love most about RPGs like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Baldur's Gate 3

Preview | "As a player, I love the companion moments", agrees Avowed's game director, Carrie Patel

GamesRadar

Avowed might look like Skyrim, but its director says Obisidian's new fantasy RPG is actually much closer to The Outer Worlds than anything from Bethesda

And there's a healthy dose of Pillars of Eternity too, of course

PC Gamer

All the Avowed companions who will join you in the Living Lands

Here's who you can recruit once you get back into Eora again.

GamesRadar

Despite the Skyrim comparisons, Avowed is an Obsidian RPG first and foremost: "Let's bring in all the greatest hits"

Big Preview | What makes an "Obsidian RPG"? Avowed is about to answer that question

PC Gamer

Avowed is a jack-of-all-trades action RPG with a rare attention for the little details

In rare moments Avowed reminds me of an immersive sim, but it stops short of the simulation of games like Deus Ex.

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