Obsidian Entertainment is one of the first-party Xbox studios most affected by the recent wave of layoffs. Kotaku had previously reported that the Irvine-based studio had lost around 25% of its staff, and that figure is now confirmed by two reputable sources: Bloomberg's Jason Schreier and Stephen Totilo, who wrote on Game File that 52 workers were cut from Obsidian based on a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice filed in California. However, the studio is far from dead. According to Schreier, it's being recalibrated from its previous plans. In November 2025, former Obsidian founder Chris Avellone revealed that […]

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Obsidian Entertainment has created a lot of great roleplaying games over its 23-year history (the studio's anniversary was yesterday, by the way), but there is little doubt that its name, in the minds of the gaming mainstream, is synonymous with that of Fallout: New Vegas. The game wasn't actually a unanimous critical darling (it famously "only" got an average Metacritic score of 84, thus narrowly missing the 85 Metacritic score clause that Bethesda had added in the contract for an extra payout), but it certainly became a fan-favorite, owing to its excellent narrative, faction writing, roleplaying choices, memorable companions, and […]

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Fallout: New Vegas Senior Designer and Writer Chris Avellone talked extensively about the Fallout franchise in a recent interview with YouTuber TKs-Mantis. Avellone (who also worked as a designer on Fallout 2 and on the canceled Van Buren project) claimed that, to his knowledge, Obsidian never provided the full source code of Fallout: New Vegas to Bethesda. Furthermore, as far as he knows, they don't have the knowledge to reassemble it, which constitutes a major problem for the rumored remaster. I don't think Bethesda has the engineering know-how to make a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas at all. And the […]

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The Fallout series of games has a long history, and of the many odd things that took place was the original Fallout 3, which was code named Van Buren.  All previous Fallout…