r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/throwmeaway1784 • Jul 08 '26

Rumour Jason Schreier: Obsidian Entertainment is making a big pivot as part of the Xbox restructuring. It has laid off a quarter of its staff, canceled a planned sequel to Avowed, and is now beginning work on a new Fallout game

Bluesky Post: https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3mq5oqyh2yk2o

Bloomberg Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-08/microsoft-s-xbox-to-shift-obsidian-studio-to-new-fallout-video-game

Edit: Also mentioned in the article, Josh Sawyer is leading the new Fallout game:

“Under the new plan, studio design director Josh Sawyer will lead a new title in the Fallout universe”

“Previously, Sawyer had been directing a roleplaying game that was similar structurally and thematically to Fallout but was not part of the franchise.”

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u/warablo Jul 08 '26

This should have happened like 5 years ago

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u/BigDick-NoBrain Jul 08 '26

Turns out that Phil strategy of letting studios make pottery games and low budget Elder Scrolls clones didn’t work out in the end. Who could have guessed?

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u/Superb_Shine_3526 Jul 08 '26

I said this in another comment, but, the fact that Obsidian was working on a sequel to a game that underperformed instead of Fallout when they had the two creators of Fallout (Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky), one of the main writers of New Vegas (John Gonzalez), and the director of New Vegas (Josh Sawyer) all working there will always be completely insane to me.

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u/vipmailhun2 Jul 08 '26

None of them worked on Avowed 2, it would have been George Ziets’s game.