27 Facts About Obsidian Entertainment

Obsidian Entertainment, Inc is an American video game developer based in Irvine, California.

Obsidian Entertainment was founded by Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan and Chris Jones on June 12,2003.

Obsidian Entertainment pitched a game to Take-Two Interactive called Futureblight, which was described as a Fallout-style game powered by the Neverwinter Nights engine.

Towards the end of 2003, the team was contacted by LucasArts president Simon Jeffrey, who requested that Obsidian Entertainment make an action role-playing game set in the Star Wars universe.

Obsidian Entertainment became the game's lead developer, while Neverwinter Nights creator BioWare provided technical assistance.

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Disney Interactive Studios commissioned Obsidian Entertainment to develop a prequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves called Dwarfs, which was set to be a third-person action game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Electronic Arts wanted Obsidian Entertainment to develop a role-playing game to compete with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and another publisher was interested in having Obsidian Entertainment develop a fantasy RPG.

Obsidian Entertainment requested a large budget, which Atari could not afford, and the deal between the two companies fell apart when Atari Europe was sold to Namco Bandai Games.

On February 11,2010, Red Eagle Games and Obsidian Entertainment announced that they would co-develop one or more games based on The Wheel of Time fantasy novel series by Robert Jordan.

In developing New Vegas, Obsidian Entertainment looked at fan requests, which led to New Vegas giving a more prominent role to the in-game factions.

Between The Sith Lords and New Vegas, Obsidian Entertainment had built a reputation for creating games with technical problems.

Obsidian Entertainment then transformed Stormlands into another game title called Fallen and then pitched it to other publishers including 2K Games and Ubisoft.

In October 2009, Obsidian Entertainment was contacted by South Park Digital Studios to develop a game set within the South Park universe.

Obsidian Entertainment met with South Parks creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, with the two parties agreeing that it was critical that the game share the television show's construction paper-like visual aesthetic.

Obsidian Entertainment was worried that if the project was cancelled, they too would face severe financial difficulties.

Obsidian Entertainment assisted in the development of inXile's Wasteland 2 after its Kickstarter campaign raised $2.

Obsidian Entertainment's campaign was hugely successful, raising $4 million and breaking the record set by Double Fine Adventure.

Obsidian Entertainment is set to use Fig as its future crowdfunding platform.

On March 15,2016, Obsidian Entertainment announced their new project called Tyranny, an isometric RPG set in a world where evil has already won.

On January 27,2017, Obsidian Entertainment announced Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire and launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fig to raise additional development funds.

In February 2017, it was announced that Obsidian Entertainment were leaving the development of Armored Warfare in the hands of the game's publisher to finish the project.

In November 2019, Obsidian Entertainment announced its next game, titled Grounded, describing it as a "survival adventure where you're the size of an ant".

On July 23,2020, at the Xbox Games Showcase, Obsidian Entertainment revealed a brand new role-playing game called Avowed was currently in development for Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X In 2021, another unannounced open-world project for PC and console was found to be in development through a technical artist job posting on the company's website, which was later revealed to be The Outer Worlds 2 during the Xbox + Bethesda E3 2021 showcase.

In 2022, Obsidian Entertainment revealed Pentiment, a narrative adventure game for Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X and Xbox One with a November 2022 release window.

Obsidian Entertainment built its reputation making sequels in well-established franchises including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout, and Dungeon Siege.

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Obsidian Entertainment considered the making of these sequels as stepping stones towards eventually making original games based on their own intellectual property.

The studio's focus did later shift towards developing their own games, which allowed Obsidian Entertainment to maximize their creative freedom and escape the constraints imposed by publishers.