RPG Obsidian stuck to some fantasy conventions for Pillars of Eternity and Avowed because that's what people want: ''I didn't want to completely flip it and say, oh you want to play an elf? F**k you, ...

Fellowship is striking out from dungeon-crawler tradition with its goal of streamlining the RPG experience and skipping the ...

The histories of Obsidian Entertainment and Bethesda Game Studios are intertwined in many ways. Many of Obsidian’s developers worked on the first two Fallout games, for example, before Bethesda ...

Across multiple releases, FromSoftware’s Souls games have redefined RPG standards and inspired a generation of developers, and for good reason.

Noted CRPG enthusiast and Obsidian director Josh Sawyer, known for Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, and Pentiment, recently explored the concept of “crunchiness” in RPGs. During an interview ...

Action RPGs "The shorthand is New Vegas in space": The Outer Worlds 2 directors double down on Fallout comparisons, and Obsidian isn't worried about setting expectations too high: "It's our pedigree" ...

The craft of role-playing games once belonged to a very specific and well-defined genre. Building a character from scratch, assigning stat points, picking up lootable gear, and embarking on epic ...

Witcher TTRPG creator Cody Pondsmith joins us live to introduce his new game Shadow Scar - with $150 worth of RPG books to be ...

Pinball will always be our first love. We were pinball players at heart long before we released Pinball FX for the Xbox 360, and more than a decade of working on pinball tables -- from Guardians of ...

Although only a teaser trailer has been released so far, Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming first-person fantasy RPG Avowed is quickly becoming many fans’ hope for a spiritual successor to Skyrim.

Enterbrain is bringing the RPG Maker series to the Nintendo DS. RPG Tsukuru DS, as its known in Japan, is dated for January 28, 2010. The design app let’s players modify parameters, pick a protagonist ...

Todays RPG landscape is thriving with games like Baldurs Gate 3 and Elden Ring. But these blockbusters didnt come out of nowhere, as theyre standing on the shoulders of CRPG classics that laid the ...