Microsoft Reportedly Cancels Avowed Sequel As Obsidian Focuses On A Fallout Game

The Fallout: New Vegas developer has not escaped Microsoft's Xbox layoffs unscathed.

Obsidian Entertainment, the developer behind the Pillars of Eternity series, The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas, is being reshuffled as part of Xbox's larger reset and mass layoffs across Microsoft's gaming business. Bloomberg reports that multiple of the studio's projects have been cancelled — including a sequel to Avowed — and Obsidian will now focus on a new Fallout game.

Josh Sawyer, the director of Fallout: New Vegas and the Medieval adventure game Pentiment, is reportedly leading development of the new game. Bloomberg previously reported that Microsoft wants to focus its studios on successful franchises like The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Wolfenstein and Fallout. Getting a new Fallout game out is particularly relevant given that Fallout 76, a multiplayer survival game from 2018, is technically the most recent release and Fallout has now been adapted...

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