Obsidian and inXile acquired by Microsoft

[Safav Hamon]

Holy shit!

 

[Werdna's Revenge]

InXile lol

 

[Quillon]

lol

 

[santino27]

Aha, InXile. I assume Obsidian will be next.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Holy shit they're buying InXile.

 

[BEvers]

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of two heavy-hitters in the RPG gaming world, namely inXile Entertainment and Obsidian Entertainment. And there was much rejoicing throughout every kingdom.

The announcement came during the Redmond company’s annual XO18 fan fest in Mexico City.

Microsoft stresses that both studios will remain autonomous. What this means for gamers remains to be seen, Microsoft’s publishing arm has a reputation for enabling studios without squashing creativity – Bungie did quite well there, for awhile – but both inXile and Obsidian have a reputation for caring more about fans than bottom-lines.

Both studios are beloved by their fans, for different reasons. inXile is perhaps best known for its top-down perspective roleplaying games, such as Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera. The studio just released Bard’s Tale IV and, presumably, the upcoming Wasteland 3 will launch on Xbox One and Windows 10.

https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2018/11/10/microsoft-absorbs-rpg-developers-obsidian-and-inxile/

 

[Werdna's Revenge]

Feargus got Fargo'd hahahaahahaaha

edit: nvm they instead will combine their powers

 

[Nano]

Literally what the fuck?

 

[santino27]

They said two studios, so there's one still to go.

 

[Safav Hamon]

And there it is...

 

[Deadass]

 

[LESS T_T]

Obsidian too!

 

[santino27]

There we go.

 

[deama]

AND obsidian, ok, wonder what they're planning...

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

 

[santino27]

Tim & Leonard were the only elements of incline in that video. Interesting there's no JES.

Sorry, Chris Avellone ... they're keeping "the culture" the same at Obsidian.

 

[pomenitul]

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Jesus, did they just put Black Isle back together?

Edit: okay, okay, the soulless reanimated corpse of Black Isle.

 

[apenney]

Urgh, don't know how I feel about this. What a shit show.

 

[Ulfhednar]

So is the RPG Renaissance officially over?!

 

[Deadass]

repost for posterity

 

[Elex]

So is the RPG Renaissance officially over?!

obisidian/exile merged for developing BG3!

 

[Diablo169]

So is the RPG Renaissance officially over?!

When did it begin? O_O

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Diablo169]

Fargo has mad skills. Why the hell would you want to buy Inxile? No big hits, fairly mediocre reviews? Bizarre choice for Microsoft.