Obsidian Reportedly Cancels Avowed 2 to Focus on a New Fallout Game

Obsidian Entertainment is reportedly pulling the plug connected a sequel to Avowed successful favour of a caller Fallout game.

Bloomberg reports that Obsidian has scrapped plans for Avowed 2 and different unannounced projects to absorption connected a caller Fallout game, led by Josh Sawyer. Sawyer was reportedly moving connected a antithetic RPG that was structurally akin to Fallout anterior to this. He besides served arsenic pb decorator and task manager connected Fallout: New Vegas, 1 of the astir beloved games successful the franchise. Bethesda, the workplace that has overseen the Fallout franchise for astir 2 decades, volition enactment with Obsidian connected the project.

A tiny radical of unit volition proceed to enactment connected Avowed 2 with the hopes of reviving the task aboriginal down the line. The quality comes arsenic portion of Xbox's large reset, which has resulted successful thousands of layoffs, successful summation to Microsoft parting ways with a fistful of first-party teams specified arsenic Undead Labs. Bloomberg reports that a 4th of Obsidian was laid disconnected arsenic well.

The quality of a caller Fallout from Obsidian is apt precise breathtaking to fans, however. Fallout: New Vegas is simply a fan-favorite introduction successful the franchise and the IP hasn't had a caller mainline, single-player crippled successful implicit a decade. Fallout 4 was released successful 2015 and a fewer years later, we got Fallout 76, an MMO-style crippled acceptable successful the post-apocalyptic universe. A live-action Fallout TV bid has besides been ongoing connected Prime Video, garnering captious praise and precocious viewership.

Still, the TV bid has lone made radical crave a caller single-player Fallout crippled and with Bethesda moving connected The Elder Scrolls 6 for the foreseeable future, a caller Fallout crippled from that squad is apt astir a decennary away. It was reported earlier this week that Bethesda would beryllium focusing much connected its biggest franchises, and this determination appears to beryllium a motion of that.

Cade Onder is simply a freelancer for IGN's quality team. He covers each things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You tin find him connected Twitter @Cade_Onder.