Obsidian Entertainment has proven again and again that they make quality games. With work over the decades spanning from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II to Fallout: New Vegas to 2019’s The Outer Worlds, they have nailed down what it means to maintain player’s attention. One of their newest outings, Grounded has gotten another patch while
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If you’re looking for a new game to play but don’t want to break the bank, Humble Bundle is here to help. Today, they kicked off a massive winter sale full of discounts on all kinds of games. Of course, trying to list each and every game on sale would take way too long. However,
As two of last year’s most critically-acclaimed games, The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds were major successes in light of the fact that the two happened to share incredibly similar names, were both set in outer space, and involved exploration. The confusion that resulted between trying to identify both games was one of 2019’s most prolonged running jokes,
The Outer Worlds from Obsidian was one of 2019’s best games. It appeared on many Game of the Year lists and we here at DualShockers bestowed upon it a review score of 9.5/10. Unfortunately for me, it was one of those games that got caught up in my constantly growing list of games that I
The Outer Worlds is set to finally arrive on the Nintendo Switch in just a few short weeks and prior to launch, Private Division has today given us a better look at what this iteration of the title will look like. In total, Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division released seven new screenshots from the Switch version
Take-Two Interactive’s latest financial report suggests a record-breaking net booking of $2.99 billion, thanks to a bunch of best-selling titles in the company’s line-up such as Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Borderlands 3. According to the report, Grand Theft Auto V’s sales have surpassed 130 million units, which is an outstanding
Obsidian’s upcoming survival adventure game Grounded made an appearance at today’s Inside Xbox stream. After the success of their game The Outer Worlds last year, Obsidian’s stock is riding high. This next game looks to give us a completely new setting, as it appears to take tons of visual inspiration from Honey, I Shrunk the
The Switch iteration of The Outer Worlds was supposed to have already released by now, but the ongoing coronavirus pandemic caused the game to be delayed indefinitely earlier this year. Fortunately, now that the outbreak has died down in China, which is where the Switch port’s developer, Virtuos, is located out of, Private Division has today
It seems that the coronavirus is causing all sorts of issues in the video game industry recently. After it was reported earlier today that the disease has now impacted Nintendo’s ability to ship products across Japan, the virus has now delayed the launch of The Outer Worlds on Switch as well. Publisher Private Division announced
Editor’s Note: mild spoilers for Outer Wilds concepts are present in this editorial. Specific details and plot elements are kept as vague as possible, but but this is a game best experienced blind. Exercise caution before reading, but do play the game first and come back to this editorial after. It’s worth your time. Had I
In an interview with Gamasutra, Obsidian Entertainment’s Tim Cain says The Outer Worlds featured non-combat flaws players could earn, but they got cut. “One of the flaws we wanted [in the game] was to be impulsive,” says Cain, the game’s co-director. “When dialogue options come up there would be a little timer. When it ticked
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
In a “special thank you” on their forums, Obsidian has quietly confirmed that story DLC will be coming to The Outer Worlds in 2020. Mostly, the post was there to thank everyone for voting for The Outer Worlds at The Game Awards. However, at the end of the post, they casually dropped some big news.
The Game Awards 2019 is just a few short hours away. With none of its announcements leaking ahead of time, the big reveals from the show seem to be shrouded in mystery. However, some industry folks have come out, giving us an idea of what we can expect. We here at DualShockers have been pondering
While it’s only been out for a few weeks, Obsidian Entertainment’s RPG The Outer Worlds has already found itself a legion of fans thanks to its compelling gameplay and irresistible world. Coming a few weeks after its debut, one of the game’s first patches is bringing a number of fixes to the space RPG, both major
The Game Awards 2019 is set to take place in just a few mere weeks and today, the nominees for this year’s show were finally divulged. In a year where many thought there wasn’t one major standout release that stood above the rest, the nominees for Game of the Year in 2019 proved to be
In an interview with Eurogamer, Xbox’s Phil Spencer says the company won’t prioritize Project Scarlett’s price over its hardware. “If you remember at the launch of Xbox One, we were $100 more expensive and less powerful. So, I won’t be in that position. There’s no doubt about that,” says Spencer. “As an industry that’s growing
In an interview with Eurogamer, Xbox’s Phil Spencer says the company won’t prioritize Project Scarlett’s price over its hardware. “If you remember at the launch of Xbox One, we were $100 more expensive and less powerful. So, I won’t be in that position. There’s no doubt about that,” says Spencer. “As an industry that’s growing
The NPD Group recently released October’s sales data for the video game industry and to the surprise of absolutely no one, Activision and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare cleaned house on the month. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was the top-selling game for the month of October 2019, which isn’t anything new for a Call of Duty
After being teased months ago, X019 is finally here. Microsoft brought back their old X0 event last year, and this year’s show in London affirms that it will be an annual thing. While the festivities will be going on all weekend, the most interesting portion of X019 is happening today at 3pm ET: Inside Xbox.
With just a day away from Microsoft’s big XO19 presentation, reveals have been teased suggesting much of the devs that make up Xbox Game Studios will have something to show. This includes the recently acquired Obsidian Entertainment, who will reportedly be announcing a new IP on stage at the London venue. According to a tweet
Private Division, a publishing label for Take-Two Interactive has a lot of interesting sci-fi titles on the horizon like V1 Interactive’s Disintegration and Star Theory’s Kerbal Space Program 2. Additionally, a Nintendo Switch port of Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds is in the pipeline as well. Take-Two Interactive’s financial report for Q2 2019 was released
As is customary around this time every month, Sony today revealed which games performed the best on the PlayStation Store for this past month and the big winner of October shouldn’t come as a shock. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ended up being the top-downloaded game of October for PS4 both in North America and
The Outer Worlds, a single-player first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division, only launched October 25 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC and in that short space of time, the game is scoring very favorably with players around the world. Sitting at a healthy score of 86 for PS4 on Metacritic, it’s obvious
With a huge array of talent behind it and an intriguing universe to explore, The Outer Worlds is among the more high-profile games that many are anticipating on the horizon, and it seems that with E3 2019 around the corner, we can expect to hear some new information tied to the game during the event next
A few weeks back at PAX East, we interviewed the directors of The Outer Worlds–Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky–to learn more about what to expect from Obsidian’s latest RPG. The conversation we had with them was more of a broad look at the game that also touched on the roots of the project and some of
Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds is one of the most intriguing and exciting releases of 2019. Led by some of the creators of the original Fallout, The Outer Worlds is one of the first true single-player RPGs that we’ve seen in quite a bit, separate from the mold of games-as-a-service or other multiplayer factors. The Outer Worlds seems to be
There has been a lot of talk about Stadia, Google’s upcoming streaming platform, ever since it was revealed at GDC a few weeks back. Some tend to believe that Stadia could be the future of gaming while others are hard-pressed to think it will find success in our current Internet climate where speeds are often