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Grounded 2 is coming to PlayStation 5, marking another Xbox console exclusive moving beyond the platform

Grounded 2 is heading to PlayStation 5 on August 11 alongside its Into the Abyss update. The announcement makes it the latest Xbox-published title to lose console exclusivity while Obsidian also unveils a roadmap packed with new features and content.

Windows Central

I never change weapons in RPGs, which means I've made Obsidian director Josh Sawyer's life a living hell when it comes to making cool armour systems

Sorry, Josh.

PC Gamer

After 26 years of RPGs, Obsidian legend Josh Sawyer admits he's still trying to make a good armor system

Avowed's "kind of worked, except that nobody liked it"

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After The Outer Worlds players get locked out of free Spacer's Choice upgrade, Obsidian says sorry "for the frustration" and promises to "make it right"

Backend issues created problems for the RPG

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Obsidian walks back The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice free upgrade due to platform limitations

Xbox One and PS4 base-game owners now need both DLCs.

Dot Esports

"Other ideas ... had to just fall by the wayside": Fallout: New Vegas director says Obsidian had to limit the RPG's scope due to a time crunch

Fallout: New Vegas dev Obsidian originally had "other ideas" for the RPG, but they "had to just fall by the wayside" due to time constraints.

Windows Central

The Outer Worlds has been delisted, but players can carry saves into Spacer’s Choice Edition on Game Pass

Obsidian has clarified how save transfers, Game Pass access, and upgrades will work as The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition replaces the original release on modern storefronts.

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The free PlayStation Plus Essential games for June have been revealed — and they include an Xbox-published game

PlayStation Plus Essential June 2026 games included Grounded, a former Xbox exclusive.

TechRadar

Fallout: New Vegas director's hopes for the RPG were shaped by how little time Obsidian had to work on it: "We can't set our sights on anything crazier than this"

Obsidian's Josh Sawyer says there were "other ideas" that "had to just fall by the wayside"

GamesRadar

RPG legend Josh Sawyer says Obsidian doesn't hate Baldur's Gate 3-style romance, "it's more that it is not typically the wheelhouse we have operated in"

"It's a lot of work"

GamesRadar

Obsidian returns to The Outer Worlds after 3 years to add a whole new weapon type, fix bugs, and delist its OG version

Good, good, less good.

PC Gamer

Fallout creator Tim Cain plans to make one last game after rejoining Xbox's Obsidian last year — "I think I am gonna make one more game before I retire again"

Tim Cain, co-creator of the Fallout series, believes he'll make one final game before retirement — and said this after returning to Xbox's Obsidian.

Windows Central

Fallout co-creator hopes to "make one more game" before his second retirement from RPG development

"But who knows?"

GamesRadar

Fallout co-creator wants to make one last game before he retires 'for the second time'

Tim Cain's considering dipping back into the industry for one last go.

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Obsidian caused some trouble by using the Rorschach Test in Fallout: New Vegas: 'Those folks came to Bethesda and said we're gonna have a fun lawsuit on our hands, so pony up!'

The price of Two Bears High Fiving.

PC Gamer

A minor Fallout: New Vegas quest got its own ending slide because the team was transfixed by the choice where you make the NCR's worst soldiers take Psycho

Who you callin' Poindexter?

GamesRadar

"Those folks came to Bethesda and said, 'We're gonna have a fun lawsuit'": Fallout New Vegas devs "got in trouble" after forgetting about trademarks for some material, says Obsidian veteran

"Holy crap, when they found out."

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10 Best Xbox RPGs to play in 2026

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Baldur's Gate 3 lead Swen Vincke "is an unstoppable machine" who "will have engines re-written to make sure that the quality is there," says Fallout: New Vegas dev

"If a game comes out, it is incredibly important to him that it's at high quality, no matter what sacrifice it takes"

Destructoid

Bethesda likely won’t remaster New Vegas because it doesn’t know how to, Chris Avellone says

Grim prospects for the best Fallout.

GamesRadar

Bethesda showed the Fallout: New Vegas team a "powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong," dev says: "Hugely morale-boosting"

"'I thought we did a good product for you guys that kept Fallout in the public consciousness, but you guys don't seem very happy about it'"

PC Gamer

Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could've been set in New Orleans because 'the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would've been] so sweet'

Get Obsidian on that New Orleans idea stat.

PC Gamer

Fallout: New Vegas dev says Bethesda made the studio sit through 'a whole powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong'

"Bethesda used review scores against us."

GamesRadar

Fallout: New Vegas 2 was real at one point before Obsidian's plans "quickly evaporated," says senior designer, but a revival "will not happen in the next six years at least, if ever"

What could've been

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Fallout 5 rumored setting New Orleans was originally discussed at New Vegas studio Obsidian, and veteran dev still believes "there's a lot of potential there"

Fallout New Orleans rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

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