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Obsidian's Avowed is leaping from Xbox to PS5 next month

Yet another Xbox Game Studios title is coming to PS5 next month and it's one I like quite a bit.

TechRadar

OG Fallout creators wanted the IP when it was up for sale, but Bethesda's $6 million bid was a blowout: "It wouldn't have mattered if they heard our offer or not, because they would have laughed"

"We never even got a chance to make an offer"

GamesRadar

A year later, Obsidian's fantasy RPG Avowed is coming to PS5, and it's finally going to let you play as a non-human character

Avowed's coming to a whole new audience

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Avowed is coming to PS5 with new playable races, New Game Plus, and major updates

Obsidian confirms Avowed’s PS5 release alongside major updates, including New Game Plus, new races, and quality of life features aimed at improving repeat playthroughs.

Windows Central

Fallout Season 2 hype has doubled or even tripled the Steam player count of every game in the series, including the pre-Bethesda original and Obsidian's New Vegas

Numbers for Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for the PS2 were not given

GamesRadar

Not only does Todd Howard not hate Obsidian, it was his 'only choice' to take up Fallout's reins in the wake of Fallout 3

After all, it did a great job with KOTOR 2.

PC Gamer

Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'

Emphasis on "masterpieces."

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'Yeah, that didn't suck. That was good': Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist's journal in Honest Hearts is 'one of my favorite bits of content that I've written in a game'

The Survivalist's diary entries were one of the few writing contributions John Gonzalez made to New Vegas' Honest Hearts DLC before leaving Obsidian.

PC Gamer

My favorite Fallout fan artist paints New Vegas how you imagine it, and he refuses to touch AI tools: 'I believe it’s innate in humanity to appreciate real human-made art'

Static remaster.

PC Gamer

'I'm over making other people really wealthy with my own creations': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain isn't interested in making a new IP or a sequel to one of his classic RPGs and, at this point, he's 'exasperated with the question'

"I'm still making toys and I love them, and they make me happy."

PC Gamer

Todd Howard says Obsidian was "the only choice" for Fallout: New Vegas – aside from the studios' Fallout DNA, devs did "something similar" with Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2

"We knew there was going to be a long break until Fallout 4 – how can we keep this going?"

GamesRadar

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando feels like Space Marine 2 meets co-op horde shooter, and it's the campy Left 4 Dead-like I've been waiting for since 2009

Hands-on | How Toxic Commando's incorporation of vehicular tech sets the zombie battlefield apart from competitors

GamesRadar

I'm not waiting 5 years for everyone to realize The Outer Worlds 2 is another Obsidian classic—I'm giving it its flowers now

Haters begone, I've got builds to plan.

PC Gamer

In a year where Obsidian released a pair of RPGs, its best game was an early access survival romp

It turns out that a small community garden offers more compelling adventures than a magical island or a capitalist nightmare.

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Obsidian's Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: 'The oldheads are going to catch all these things'

Clerics casting Dimension Door? Not at any table in 1987.

Windows Central

2026 will be a huge year for Obsidian fans, as Avowed, Grounded 2, and The Outer Worlds 2 all receive major updates

From Avowed’s Anniversary Update to Grounded 2’s evolving roadmap and The Outer Worlds 2 DLC, Obsidian has plenty planned for fans heading into 2026.

GamesRadar

“We started with the solid foundation that we inherited from Fallout 3”: How Fallout: New Vegas delivered a bigger, better post-apocalypse by sticking to the script – mostly

From the Vault | Obsidian was "at the top of the list" to make New Vegas, GamesTM learned at E3 2010, and Bethesda's reasons still make sense today

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As Fallout Season 2 debuts, Todd Howard addresses a New Vegas misconception that Bethesda hates the RPG — "Huge respect for the folks at Obsidian"

Does Bethesda hate Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas? Many seem to think so, though Todd Howard has now addressed the misconception himself to deny that assumption.

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As Xbox refuses to play the console wars game in 2025, it's traded exclusivity for a multi-platform future – but its biggest names are still at large

Year in Review 2025 | Even with 3 Obsidian games in one year, Xbox's 2025 felt like the calm before the storm.

Total Film

Should you play Fallout: New Vegas before watching Fallout season 2?

Short on time? Here's whether you should play New Vegas before Fallout's new season

GamesRadar

From Avowed to Hades 2, the best RPGs of 2025 are the cream of the role-playing crop

Year in Review 2025 | It's been a great year for RPGs, and these five are the absolute peak of the genre's last 12 months

GamesRadar

Disco Elysium devs built the RPG's visual style as a "cover band" for Obsidian's "great comeback game," Pillars of Eternity

"We were like, 'we should steal that'"

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"RPGs can be divisive": Obsidian chats all things Avowed – how it overcame the Skyrim comparisons, why there's no Baldur's Gate 3-style romance, and what's next for the 2025 gem

Year in Review 2025 | "You're going to get people who really love it and people who really don't love it"

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Turn on the New Vegas 2 copium machine: The Outer Worlds 2 director says Obsidian looks at "everything" available when choosing IP to work on, which happens to include Fallout

But I have a feeling the studio is going to stick to originals for a while yet

GamesRadar

Obsidian hopes to stand alongside CD Projekt and Larian by making "best-in-class" reactive RPGs, says The Outer Worlds 2 director: "I don't know if we're there yet, but I'd love to get there"

Year in Review 2025 | The Outer Worlds 2 director on the future of the RPG and Obsidian

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