In 2022, Obsidian Entertainment was the only first-party Xbox studio to ship a new game, Pentiment. And in 2025, the Microsoft-owned studio has already launched one big RPG, Avowed, and is set to ...

Avowed developer Obsidian Entertainment has a goal to be around for at least 100 years--it's already a 22-year-old institution--and its current leadership team believes it can meet this ambitious goal ...

I’ve always deeply appreciated Obsidian’s work in this space, so I’m happy to see them confidently succeed in an area where their peers at Bethesda Game Studios and Bioware have recently ...

Across the vast history of role-playing games, few studios have managed to be as influential as Obsidian Entertainment. Their work on beloved games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II ...

Thankfully, the game benefits from the studio’s experience and the lessons it’s learned along the way. Avowed is a fantastic culmination of the Obsidian games that came before, even if it’s ...

I would almost describe the game's aesthetic as an unusual cross between Elder Scrolls and Chrono Cross (!), with bold colours, unusual shapes and towering structures. Obsidian's first-person RPGs ...

As with many of Obsidian's other titles, players will be free to approach Avowed however they wish, creating all sorts of weird and wonderful characters to start their adventure. Game Rant ...

When there are romantic subplots or themes in Obsidian games, they typically run toward the tragic or subversive: Wooing one of four partially cult deprogrammed weirdos in Knights of the Old ...

Obsidian Entertainment, one of gaming’s most celebrated narrative houses, was meeting high expectations. Then I noticed something I’ve never felt before during a game made by Obsidian ...

When a new game bears the subtitle of a 'new Obsidian role-playing game', that means expectation from some may already be higher than normal as the studio has a history of developing top quality RPGs.

But, the look and feel are distinctive. This is unmistakably an Obsidian game: a fully realized world, distinct and convincing. There is the fauna and flora doused in bright, neon fungal growths ...

Ahead of the release of the Avowed, Rolling Stone recently spoke with Urquhart, as well as the game’s director Carrie Patel, about Obsidian’s legacy and how all those years of playing in other ...