Microsoft’s Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed

As part of Microsoft’s big Xbox « reset, » which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to focus on « higher priority projects, » Obsidian Entertainment is changing its plans. The studio, behind games like Grounded and The Outer Worlds, is starting work on a new Fallout title and has canceled « multiple projects, » including a sequel to last year’s Avowed, according to Bloomberg.

Despite the success of the Fallout TV show, which is getting a third season, Xbox hasn’t released a new game in the series since 2018’s Fallout 76. Josh Sawyer, Obsidian’s studio design director, will head up the new Fall …

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