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Avowed is selling 5 days of early access, and in a surprise twist fueled by Xbox buying everyone, Obsidian's RPG is coming to Activision Blizzard's Battle.net

Fork over $90 and you can play Avowed five days early

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Avowed wasn't delayed "because Obsidian needed the time" to improve the RPG, but rather because "they'll use the time"

The delay wasn't due to quality concerns

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Take-Two is selling Outer Worlds publisher Private Division because it says it's in the "business of making great big hits" like Grand Theft Auto — but was Xbox the buyer?

Grand Theft Auto owner Take-Two Interactive has sold off the Private Division publishing label to an unknown party, including the rights to its upcoming games.

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Fallout: New Vegas director took one look at the Strip on a console devkit and thought, "Oh my god, this isn’t going to run"

Good thing it did!

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Obsidian says choices both big and small will matter in Avowed, and 'the choices you get and the outcomes in front of you are going to depend on what you're able to find'

In other words, keep a health potion in reserve.

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Your choices in Avowed matter, and Obsidian promises to give players "moment-to-moment opportunities to express and explore where they're leaning"

But what choices have been seen so far?

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The Dark Age of Paradox Interactive: What exactly happened to one of PC gaming's best publishers?

From disappointing launches to delays to cancellations, it's been a rough time for the Swedish publisher, but it's trying to bounce back.

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Iconic Dungeons & Dragons RPG Planescape: Torment was a 'B-Team' project that started life as 3 different games⁠—including a 3D dungeon crawler

Planescape: Torment is a beloved classic of PC gaming, but its beginnings were surprisingly inauspicious.

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The idea for a Pillars of Eternity: Tactics game has been floated at Obsidian, but it's still up in the air because 'the audience for them is not huge, typically, but very passionate'

"It's a hard one to make a case for."

PC Gamer

"There have been a number of people actually at the studio who have floated the idea of a Pillars Tactics game," says Obsidian's Josh Sawyer when interviewed about the future of Pillars of Eternity

Josh Sawyer, a lead developer of Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity series, was recently interviewed by Limit Break Network regarding his involvement in the upcoming Avowed and what the future holds for Pillars of Eternity.

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A Pillars of Eternity Tactics game has been pitched by "a number" of Obsidian devs, because fans "will play a lot of them, even if they're not that good"

The Tactics audience is "not huge, typically, but very passionate"

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As Fallout: New Vegas horse modder gets seal of approval from an OG dev, he says he's "constantly" comparing his work to Red Dead Redemption 2

The mod has cost him his "sanity"

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Obsidian seems scared people will compare Avowed to Skyrim, but it shouldn't be—the similarities are obvious, but the differences make it compelling

Bethesda's RPG looms large over Obsidian's latest, but having played it, there's no need to shrink from the comparison.

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"Early on in development, we realized that often the Xbox Series X performs better than the PC" — Playing Avowed for the first time while discussing the delay, Xbox performance, and ray tracing

I had the chance to play Avowed for the first time with Xbox in LA, and then I discussed the game, its delay, and how it performs with Obsidian Entertainment.

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After years of speculation about whether Avowed takes place before or after Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian casually revealed it's a sequel through a preview quest poking fun at the events of Pillars 2

Pretty surprising news, given the world-altering ending of Deadfire.

PC Gamer

Sekiro was so influential, even the next big BioWare and Obsidian RPGs are adding parries and stagger meters

You won't see me complaining.

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Upcoming Obsidian RPG Avowed seemingly runs at 30 FPS on Xbox Series X|S — and a big Capcom game might be as well

Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed and Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds are both apparently targeting 30 FPS on Xbox Series X|S.

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Avowed is "targeting 30FPS, bare minimum" on Xbox Series X/S because "you don't necessarily need 60 frames" for a first-person single-player RPG

Optimization and stability is apparently "one of the last things you do"

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Avowed lead says the Blood Mage build is "absolutely the best way to play" the RPG, even if Obsidian stumbled on it by accident

Blood Mage it is, then

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Avowed lead says it's "very hard to say" how many endings the RPG has, but it's in "the double digits, and you can end up with a lot of different combinations of them"

It's not 17,000, but it's still quite a lot

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Baldur's Gate 3 dev backs Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer, wishes he "would get the resources" for his dream RPG: "I want to play that game"

Sawyer recently said he's "out of step" with the Pillars of Eternity and Baldur's Gate 3 community

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Obsidian's CEO would love to make another Fallout, but there's another Xbox IP he'd like a crack at ...

Speaking on the Hit the Limit Break podcast, Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart noted that he'd love to make a Shadowrun game.

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Avowed devs compared notes with Baldur's Gate 3 to make "mercurial" companions with "distinct personalities"

"I want to take a lot from that and compare that to what we've been doing with companions"

PC Gamer

Josh Sawyer would head up a new Fallout game if Microsoft asked, but he'd have to do it his way: 'Who wants to work on something where the one thing they want to explore is not possible to explore?'

The head developer of Fallout: New Vegas isn't averse to returning to the series, but he has a few conditions.

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Obsidian Entertainment CEO says development of upcoming Xbox RPG The Outer Worlds 2 is "going really well"

Speaking with Hit the Limit Break, Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart says that work on Xbox RPG The Outer Worlds 2 is going "really well."

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