Obsidian’s Grounded rakes in over a million players in just two days
That truly impressive number is both a combination of Game Pass subscribers and people just straight up buying the game. Good job, Obsidian! You deserve it!
Grounded has special arachnophobia accessibility settings in case you’re terrified of spiders
Obsidian communications director Mike Dowling detailed how their study into arachnophobia resulted in the game featuring an options slider that you could use to transform spiders into harmless blobs of not-pure-terror-incarnate.
The Outer Worlds Switch Review – Get outer my space
There’s a terrific experience to be had in The Outer Worlds, but it’s an adventure that’s done proper justice on any platform but the Nintendo Switch.
The Outer Worlds is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 5
Nintendo Switch owners were left out in the cold while everyone raved about Obsidian Entertainment’s great new game, wondering just when they would get their hands on it. Said grabbing of The Outer Worlds would come in 2020 eventually! Or June 5 to be precise, as Obsidian has doubled down and committed to a proper release date for the upcoming port that’ll allow you to visit distant worlds while on the go.
Xbox Game Studios is in “execution mode” with their first-party games strategy
A couple of years ago, the Xbox One was seen as a perfectly alright console that was being completely outclassed on the first-party front by Sony. These days? It’s a much better system, has a beefy little brother in the Xbox One X and is still being outclassed by Sony on the first-party games front…but not for long. With a …
Obsidian’s next game is Grounded, a “tiny” survival game
Honey, I shrunk the survival genre! After experiencing massive success in The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s next game is a lot more simple: It’s you, you’ve been shrunk down to the size of an ant and you need to survive the perils of your backyard. Weird, but this may be the closest I’ll ever come to getting an Ant-Man video game I guess.
Everything announced during today’s X019 London event
Following a tease or two, Microsoft is ready to kick off X019 with a brand new slate of games! I’ll be covering the event and updating this post as necessary, so sit back and relax with your F5 key in hammering distance so you can see all the reveals from the Xbox celebration.
Microsoft’s X019 event could show off new games from Obsidian and Rare tonight
It’s X019 tonight! Microsoft’s annual celebration of all things related to Xbox kicks off at 10PM CAT, and while previous years might have been a bit light on content it looks like Xboss Phil Spencer’s efforts to grow the Xbox brand’s first-party slate by snapping up numerous publishers is about to pay off.
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