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  • Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division

    'The Outer Worlds' will land on Nintendo Switch on June 5th

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    03.31.2020

    Almost two months after it was delayed, The Outer Worlds has a new Switch release date. It'll arrive on Nintendo's console on June 5th. It was originally scheduled to arrive on Nintendo's console earlier this month, but it was put on hold after the coronavirus outbreak affected Virtuous, the developer which was handling the port.

  • Obsidian Entertainment

    'The Outer Worlds' comes to Nintendo Switch on March 6th

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    01.30.2020

    The Switch version of The Outer Worlds at last has a concrete release date: March 6th. Obsidian's RPG will arrive on Nintendo's console several months after it debuted on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

  • Obsidian Entertainment

    'Grounded' is an ant-sized survival game set in a suburban backyard

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    11.14.2019

    If The Outer Worlds has got you excited to play whatever Obsidian Entertainment's cooking up next, you won't have to wait too much longer. Its first-person survival title, Grounded, will arrive on Xbox Game Preview next spring.

  • Private Division

    Obsidian's 'The Outer Worlds' is coming to Nintendo Switch

    by 
    Kris Holt
    Kris Holt
    07.30.2019

    Obsidian had already revealed its Fallout-esque sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds will debut on PC, Xbox One and PS4 October 25th. Sometime after that, it'll land on Switch too. Nintendo's console is less powerful than Sony and Microsoft's ones, and won't pack as much punch as a typical PC, so it remains to be seen how well The Outer Worlds will run on the hybrid.

  • What to expect at E3 2019

    by 
    Engadget
    Engadget
    05.31.2019

    We're barely a week away from the start of E3 2019 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California! This year's event may be missing one of its stalwarts now that Sony has announced that it will not have a presence but there will be news aplenty from the show floor. Let's take a look at some of the anticipated high points.

  • Obsidian Entertainment

    Microsoft Studios buys 'Fallout: New Vegas' house Obsidian

    by 
    Jessica Conditt
    Jessica Conditt
    11.10.2018

    With the next generation of gaming consoles on the horizon, Microsoft Studios has been gobbling up high-profile developers, and it's continuing that trend today with the acquisition of Fallout: New Vegas studio Obsidian Entertainment and Wasteland 2 company inXile Entertainment.

  • Take Two Interactive/Private Division

    'Grand Theft Auto' publisher Take-Two opens an indie label

    by 
    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    12.14.2017

    Take-Two is the latest major games publisher to open up an indie label. From the sounds of it, Private Division will operate like a smaller scale version of Take-Two itself, giving developers leeway to work on things at their own pace and not worry about pumping out a sea of annual sequels.

  • Obsidian Entertainment

    Classic RPG 'Pillars of Eternity' is headed to consoles in August

    by 
    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    06.21.2017

    Fans of classic role-playing games have had a lot to be happy about these past few years. The isometric genre has seen somewhat of a resurgence lately thanks to high-profile crowdfunded games like Wasteland 2 and the Divinity series -- both of which got console ports, no less. That trend continues with the news that Pillars of Eternity will make its way from PC to consoles as well. As the name suggests, Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition will pack all the expansions and patches from the PC version when it is released August 29th on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

  • With your help 'Apocalypse Now' could become a video game

    by 
    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    01.25.2017

    Apocalypse Now was a landmark achievement of cinema. Garnering near-universal praise since its 1979 release, director Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic has left an indelible mark on the cultural landscape, launching countless careers and impacting just about every form of entertainment since. Especially video games. Now, a veteran group of developers wants to put you in Captain Willard's (Martin Sheen) boots as he hunts Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in the jungle and witnesses the horrors of war first-hand.