As a part of Microsoft’s large Xbox “reset,” which incorporates layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to give attention to “increased precedence initiatives,” Obsidian Leisure is altering its plans. The studio, behind video games like Grounded and The Outer Worlds, is beginning work on a brand new Fallout title and has canceled “a number of initiatives,” together with a sequel to final yr’s Avowed, according to Bloomberg.
Regardless of the success of the Fallout TV show, which is getting a third season, Xbox hasn’t launched a brand new recreation within the sequence since 2018’s Fallout 76. Josh Sawyer, Obsidian’s studio design director, will head up the brand new Fallout recreation. Sawyer, who has additionally served as director on 2022’s Pentiment and on Fallout: New Vegas, had apparently been directing an RPG that was “comparable structurally and thematically to Fallout however was not a part of the franchise,” Bloomberg says.
As for the Avowed sequel, Bloomberg reviews that improvement was “going nicely” and would have been introduced throughout the subsequent yr. Obsidian nonetheless plans to work on the early entry recreation Grounded 2 and on DLC for The Outer Worlds 2.
Xbox spokesperson Delaney Simmons declined to remark. The corporate laid off about 25 p.c of Obsidian’s workers this week, according to Kotaku.