Oct 23
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One year after its initial release, The Outer Worlds is finally on Steam. Obsidian Entertainment’s “class struggle simulator” will be 50% off—or 37% off if you bundle it with the expansion pass—through November 6.
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Sep 14
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Peril on Gorgon is a good excuse to return to the Outer Worlds’ retro-futurist dystopia. I only wish doing so had…
Jul 23
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Today, Obsidian announced Avowed, its next “big RPG” at Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase event. It will be released at some point on Xbox Series X and PC.
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Jun 23
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Over the weekend, multiple women in the video game industry accused Chris Avellone, a writer on a number of renowned…
Jun 17
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Obsidian Entertainment’s next game, the miniaturized adventure Grounded, received a demo on Steam yesterday. It’s a…
Apr 15
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Normally, we at Kotaku don’t publish articles about people getting new jobs, but sometimes a headline just has to be…
Apr 9
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Let’s face it: spiders are scary. Even more so if they get blown up to monstrous proportions. Grounded, the upcoming…
Feb 6
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Take-Two Interactive announced in its third quarter earnings report today that The Outer Worlds for Switch has been…
Jan 29
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is the latest classic-style role-playing game to make its way from PC to console.…
Dec 2 2019
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The Outer Worlds is one of the best games of the year, so it’s a treat tonight to be sharing some of the concept art…
Nov 5 2019
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When you first meet Maximillion DeSoto in The Outer Worlds, he has a snide comment about everything. When I…
Oct 31 2019
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It’s cool that many modern games include colorblind options, so that those who struggle to differentiate between…
Oct 30 2019
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There are all kinds of speedrunning strategies out there, from finding ways outside the boundaries of the game world…
Oct 30 2019
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Whenever I really love a piece of media, I make a mixtape of songs that remind me of it. As soon as I finished The…
Oct 25 2019
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The Outer Worlds is out today, and while it’s easy to be wowed by Halcyon, you might need a couple tips to make the…
Oct 25 2019
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Yesterday, Paul Tamayo and I played through a small portion of The Outer Worlds. The game is out today, but if you…
Oct 22 2019
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The very first quest in The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s highly anticipated first-person RPG out October 25, asked me to…
Aug 2 2019
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Before one of the designers of The Outer Worlds talked to me about the game he worked on, he commented on the Buffy…
Jul 30 2019
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The Outer Worlds is getting ported to Switch, Obsidian announced today. The game comes to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on October 25, after which Obsidian says the game will eventually make it to Nintendo’ console. No release date has been given yet.
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Jun 19 2019
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Obsidian Entertainment’s 2010 spy-thriller Alpha Protocol has been removed from sale on Steam at the “request of the…