Obsidian Entertainment · Private Division, Xbox Game Studios
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Regular readers of PC Gamer dot com slash author slash Joshua dash Wolens will know that, so far as I'm concerned, no videogames news is as exciting as "An old game is getting a patch for some reason." Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 hitting 2.7 out of nowhere? Ecstasy. Pillars of Eternity
In a new video from The Outer Worlds director and Fallout co-creator Tim Cain, he talks us through tone in videogames. Tone is a tough thing to nail down. It's easy to feel, but hard to describe and harder still to execute well. Cain points to The Outer Worlds and its strict adhe
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The Outer Worlds sees Obsidian returning to first-person RPGs for the first time since Fallout: New Vegas. After that spinoff, the studio focused on top-down CRPGs like the excellent Pillars of Eternity series. While not a Fallout game, and in no way connected with Bethesda, The
Coming October 29, 2025 The Outer Worlds 2 launches October 29, 2025— pre-order now and explore Arcadia your way. If you thought Halcyon was bad, just wait until you visit Arcadia. Cut off from Earth, you arrive as an Earth Directorate agent with a mission. How you carry it out—w
While they both sit under the Microsoft umbrella, Obsidian is setting itself up to rival Bethesda with its Skyrim-inspired action RPG, Avowed, which is set to release in just a few weeks. Before then, it's well worth checking out the studio's earlier Fallout-inspired game, The Ou
The call to venture beyond the stars has returned, and this time, it’s bigger, bolder, and more unpredictable than ever. During The Game Awards 2024, we unveiled the first gameplay trailer for The Outer Worlds 2, promising a fresh adventure in a brand-new colony next year. No, re
Tim Cain might be best known as a co-creator of the original Fallout , but some of his most recent work has come with Obsidian on its The Outer Worlds series. While he’s currently consulting on The Outer Worlds 2 , Cain’s just shared a demo of the first game from just a year into
Original Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has discussed the idea of whether he'd be interested in potentially working on the series again, if he were asked to. The developer says his interest in any Fallout project he was pitched would mainly come down to one key element - "What's new
Baldur's Gate 3 has certainly changed the conversation on sex in games, from the breakout viral moment around its bear sex scene to the way it turns intimacy, rather than sex, into the end goal of many of its relationships. Our RPG roundtable from this year's Game Developers Conf
It's time to slam that "forgot password link" on the Epic launcher and dust off your profile because the platform's got another dinger for its free game of the week : The Outer Worlds, Obsidian's 2019 space gilded age spiritual successor to Fallout... Read more.
The Epic Games Store has carved out an impressive niche for itself: it somehow always manages to be offering a game you've always thought about playing, completely for free. This week, those games include the Thief reboot and The Outer Worlds . Read the rest of the story... RELAT
Head over to the Epic Games Store on April 4th and you'll be able to grab The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition and Thief (2014) for free and to keep forever. Like a thief! Read more
We might not know much about The Outer Worlds 2 yet, but one little nugget that’s just emerged is that its devs are getting some helpful guidance from Fallout co-creator Tim Cain. If Starfield didn’t quite live up to your expectations, odds are you’re looking forward to playing O
The Outer Worlds ' remastered Spacer's Choice Edition is free to download and keep forever for the next 24 hours. The acclaimed FPS RPG from Obsidian follows Fallout 3 and Ghostwire Tokyo as an Epic Games Store freebie for the holiday season. Read the rest of the story... RELATED
The Outer Worlds is undoubtedly one of the all-time best space RPG experiences around, sorry Starfield. Obsidian Entertainment isn't the only developer to craft such an immense interstellar story though, and Humble Bundle knows it. The charitable storefront's latest deal includes
The Outer Worlds is one of those RPG games that sticks with you long after you've completed it. As you explore a space colony, you pave your own path and shape how the science-fiction story unfolds. Tim Cain, the brilliant mind behind Fallout, recently sat down to talk about game
The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition launched to entirely deserved incredulity over its dire performance problems , PC version included. Low framerates, stuttering, lighting glitches, texture popping, wonky shaders... if you could think of a technical woe, it was probably al
Surprise RPG remaster The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition has turned out to be even more of a PC wilter than its raised system requirements would suggest. I’ve only been bumbling around the starting planet of Terra-2 so far, and thus haven’t seen every single weather system
Update: An Obsidian representative has promised frustrated Spacer's Choice Edition owners a patch in a post on Reddit . "The team at Private Division is working on getting a patch out as soon as possible," said the rep, and when more info on it is available the studio will "be su