{"id":670023,"date":"2026-07-02T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670023\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:43:08","slug":"the-outer-worlds-dev-obsidian-not-at-risk-of-closure-its-now-claimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outer Worlds Dev Obsidian Not at Risk of Closure, It&#8217;s Now Claimed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the frustration behind the cuts internally at Microsoft apparently stems from the disappointment behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/call_of_duty_modern_warfare_3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty&#8217;s<\/a> recent poor performance. First-party Xbox teams believe they&#8217;re being punished, as Dring puts it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if Obsidian had delivered an incredible year, even if The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed had performed five times the numbers that they did, it wouldn\u2019t have offset the drop on Call of Duty. A game like that, and Candy Crush, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/minecraft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minecraft<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps1\/warcraft_2_the_dark_saga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warcraft<\/a>, make a lot of Xbox\u2019s output seem almost insignificant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All eyes are now on next week as Microsoft confirms exactly what it will be doing with the five \u2014 and potentially more \u2014 internal studios that have been named as being at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Having most recently produced Avowed and The Outer Worlds series, Obsidian also created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps3\/fallout_new_vegas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fallout: New Vegas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/south_park_the_stick_of_truth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Park: The Stick of Truth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps3\/alpha_protocol\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alpha Protocol<\/a>, and the second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/star_wars_knights_of_the_old_republic_remake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic<\/a> game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/xbox-divided-over-its-future-and?triedRedirect=true\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/xbox-divided-over-its-future-and?triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\">thegamebusiness.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot of the frustration behind the cuts internally at Microsoft apparently stems from the disappointment behind Call&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,555,696,86,56,54,55,183],"class_list":["post-670023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-industry","tag-microsoft","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}