Microsoft’s Xbox relaunch is pushing Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed

As part of Microsoft’s big “reset”, which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 employees, piloting studios, and shifting funds to focus on “higher-quality projects,” Obsidian Entertainment is changing its plans. Studio, behind the scenes like Fixed and Foreign Countrieshe is starting a new job Dana title and has canceled “several projects,” including last year’s sequel Avowed, According to Bloomberg.

Even the success of and Dana A TV showwho is getting a third seasonXbox has not released new games in the series starting in 2018 Results 76. Josh Sawyer, Obsidian’s studio art director, will lead the new project Dana game. Sawyer, who also served as director at 2022 about Payment and on Result: New Vegashe was apparently directing an RPG that “was similar to Dana but he was not part of the consent,” Bloomberg he says.

But about Avowed follow, Bloomberg reports that development is “going well” and could be announced within the next year. Obsidian still plans to work on the original game Bottom 2 and on DLC for Earth 2.

Xbox spokesperson Delaney Simmons declined to comment. The company laid off about 25 percent of Obsidian’s workforce this week, According to My city.