Avowed Developer Obsidian Entertainment Has Grown Since its Acquisition by Microsoft
Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind the recently-released RPG Avowed, has revealed that it has grown quite a bit since being brought under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella. Speaking to IGN during a recent episode of tis Unlocked podcast, studio CEO Feargus Urquhart revealed that the company had between 170 and 180 employees before being bought out by Microsoft.
Urquhart has revealed that, since this acquisition, Obsidian has grown to be around 285-strong. He also spoke about having great development partners through support studios like Beamdog and Heavy Iron.
“When we came on with XGS and Xbox, we were about 170, 180 people [in 2018], and through the course of the last five or six years, we’ve not only grown the studio to about 285 people, but we also have a lot of really good co-dev partners with Heavy Iron and Beamdog,” said Urquhart.
The interview, which you can check out below, revolved around a host of different subjects, including Obsidian’s games like Avowed, co-op survival game Grounded, and The Outer Worlds. During the interview, Urquhart was also asked if Obsidian would work on a new Fallout game down the line.
“Fallout is near and dear to my heart,” responded Urquhart when asked if Obsidian would pitch a follow-up to Fallout: New Vegas. “I’m an 80s kid, I’m a Gen-X, so the whole thing makes sense. If the opportunity ever arose for us to make one, we’d love to make one. But we also have a lot of other things we like.”
Interestingly, the lead writer behind Fallout: New Vegas recently returned to Obsidian Entertainment as a creative director after having originally left the company all the back in 2011. In the interim, Gonzalez had worked on a number of high-profile titles, including Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor as lead narrative designer, and Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West as narrative director.
Obsidian Entertainment’s latest release was Avowed, which came out just last week. The game has proven to be have seen quite a successful launch, with
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