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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

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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

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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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The best mods for Fallout: New Vegas

Our favorite mods for Obsidian's 2010 RPG.

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From Skate to 2XKO, why wait when you can already play the best early access games of 2025

Year in Review 2025 | The year's best early access games are already fun and fueled with potential

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Fallout co‑creator leaves retirement to rejoin Xbox's Obsidian Entertainment, fueling speculation about future games — "Don't bother guessing, you're not gonna guess right"

Game designer Tim Cain has rejoined Obsidian Entertainment, leaving retirement to work on a new project.

Windows Central

Catch up on the GOTY conversation with these Game Awards nominees on Xbox Game Pass

You want to complain about the snubs, don't you?

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain rejoins Obsidian, tells everyone to not bother guessing what game he's working on: "You're not gonna guess right"

An RPG legend goes back to a legendary RPG studio

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is out of 'semi-retirement' and back at Obsidian

Cain? On games?

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Bethesda's Todd Howard tips his hat to Obsidian, says he invited the Fallout: New Vegas devs to the Fallout Season 2 set to relive the iconic setting

"We know the folks at Obsidian well, love their work, and so we reached out to them"

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'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh

"They've just had an incredible year."

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Obsidian's Xbox survival game Grounded 2 gets a December update bringing cheerful holiday decorations — and PC gets DLSS, too

Grounded 2's latest update brings some holiday decorations, as well as DLSS and FSR options for players on Windows PC.

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Avowed says sorry gang, no fall update this year, but to make up for it the devs are rolling together a bunch of features into a ball and putting them out in February

As the old saying goes, fall back, February… forward?

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The Outer Worlds 2 director's stance on AI is that "Obsidian should never outsource the things that it's amazing at," like the famed RPG dev's knack for good writing

"You don't outsource the things you're good at to AI."

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Obsidian says The Outer Worlds 2 isn't a deliberate critique of capitalism, which is even more ridiculous than the time Fallout's co-creator said that isn't either

What's better than a thoughtful analysis of history? How about a vague shrug of the shoulders?

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The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't want games to be "preachy," but the RPG's capitalist satire strikes a nerve "because this thing happens all the damn time, and we're just seeing it over and over on a loop"

"I'll say, to Microsoft's benefit, or to kind of put them in a good light here, they didn't ever say anything to us"

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The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas studio Obsidian Entertainment pays tribute to legendary RPG dev and Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman: "Her spirit will live on"

Obsidian and Interplay share a long history

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Avowed bucks RPG expectations by offering a quick hit of fantasy action, and I don't want you to leave 2025 without playing it

Now Playing | Don't let the other 2025 RPG from Obsidian pass you by

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Xbox studio Obsidian Entertainment doesn't use generative AI for its games like The Outer Worlds 2 — "We haven't been using it at all."

While many game publishers are leaning more and more on generative AI, Xbox studio Obsidian Entertainment is not using it at all.

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It’s a big choice-driven RPG, so get ready for a holy book’s worth of patch notes: The latest Outer Worlds 2 patch packs over 350 fixes

You’ve never seen this many “art improvements.”

PC Gamer

The Witcher 3 didn't originally make you choose between romancing Yennefer or Triss: 'This decision was made pretty late'

The first game's sex cards were "childish," Badowski says.

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Fallout co-creator and RPG mastermind Leonard Boyarsky could smack his former self "upside the head" for past comments on AI – and no, Obsidian isn't "using it at all"

Oh, how times have changed

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Fallout: New Vegas director and RPG maestro Josh Sawyer says it doesn't matter how good a game's writing is if the pacing is bad: "Players are going to get tired of it"

Obsidian writers have more sway than most studios, though

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