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

As portion of Microsoft's large Xbox "reset," which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to absorption connected "higher precedence projects," Obsidian Entertainment is changing its plans. The studio, down games similar Grounded and The Outer Worlds, is starting enactment connected a caller Fallout rubric and has canceled "multiple projects," including a sequel to past year's Avowed, according to Bloomberg.

Despite the occurrence of the Fallout TV show, which is getting a 3rd season, Xbox hasn't released a caller crippled successful the bid since 2018's Fallout 76. Josh Sawyer, Obsidian's workplace plan director, volition caput up the caller Fall …

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