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My favorite band and my favorite game studio are both weirdly taking me to the same fictional place this year

New information about The Outer Worlds 2 also informed me that two of my most anticipated releases of 2025 both feature the fictional "Arcadia." Huh, weird.

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The Outer Worlds 2 game director says its writing has a 'less silly, darker tone' than the first game

People aren't always bad in silly ways. Sometimes they're just bad.

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I can't believe we're already getting a sequel to one of the best survival games ever, and I doubly can't believe how much it'll cost

During the Xbox Games Showcase 2025, Obsidian Entertainment shocked me by unveiling Grounded 2, the sequel to one of my favorite survival games of all time.

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7 things you need to know from Xbox's The Outer Worlds 2 Direct, plus juicy Grounded 2 details for Obsidian's other sequel

Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase gave us a huge look at both The Outer Worlds 2 and Grounded 2 from Obsidian. Here's an in-depth overview of everything the developer had to show.

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The era of $80 Xbox games has officially arrived, there's no hiding from it now

We knew it was coming, no matter how much we hated it. The era of $80 Xbox first-party games has officially arrived, and there's no going back.

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Obsidian wants to add a 'new layer of strategy' to combat in Grounded 2, resulting in tougher bugs, class-like archetypes, and the ability to dash

The bugs are getting an upgrade, but so are we.

PC Gamer

Grounded 2's starter area is the size of the entire first game, and you can get around by riding ants and spiders—this might end up being my new favourite survival game

Park life.

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The Outer Worlds 2 devs have already shown the background I'll be using in this RPG: the Roustabout, a talentless loser who is "not quite sure what happened" to get them here

Not the hero we need, but the hero we have

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Grounded 2 will follow its survival game predecessor's early access window, but the downside is "the game's not done and it's out to the world," which makes for horrifying bugs like this reverse face

"But there's so much value in building it alongside the community."

GamesRadar

The Outer Worlds 2 has a 'bad knees' perk that makes your old-man legs pop and alert enemies when you stand, and another that Obsidian fully admits makes the game 'pretty unplayable'

This is what I want my game designers thinking about and no, I am not joking.

PC Gamer

The Outer Worlds 2 "basically borrowed" Fallout: New Vegas' excellent Perks system, and I'm already spinning up an amazing stealth RPG build

Complete with knee-popping realism

GamesRadar

The Outer Worlds 2 gets an October release date as Obsidian opens pre-orders and confirms that 2 story expansions are on their way

All of that, and so much more

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Everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025

All the announcements, surprises, reveals, and bits of news out from Microsoft

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Xbox Games Showcase 2025 preview: The big games and developers to expect on Sunday's livestream

Forza, Call of Duty, Gears of War, Fable, and many more.

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Xbox Games Showcase 2025 needs to build on Microsoft's momentum, but it may need to go beyond The Outer Worlds 2 to pull it off

Road to Summer Game Fest | In an already standout year for Microsoft, this showcase could be a victory lap – but there’s always more to prove in the shadow of Switch 2

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After 12 years bringing RPGs like The Outer Worlds and Pillars of Eternity to life, Avowed director leaves Obsidian for a beloved former indie that's now part of Netflix

Carrie Patel's moving to the Oxenfree studio, Night School

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Avowed director Carrie Patel leaves Obsidian after 12 years to join the Netflix studio behind Oxenfree

Night School's new project still hasn't been revealed, but at least now it has a director.

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Avowed game director leaves Obsidian Entertainment for Netflix's Night School Studio

Avowed game director Carrie Patel shared that she has left Obsidian Entertainment and is now a director at Netflix-owned Night School Studio.

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Avowed lets you replace spiders with orbs in the first of its major updates coming this year

A photo mode is coming before the end of the year too.

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One of Avowed’s most frustrating features just got a fix in 1.4 update

Oof finally

Windows Central

Obsidian publishes Avowed roadmap, with the Xbox RPG getting arachnophobia mode, New Game Plus, and more

Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed has a roadmap, with arachnophobia mode, New Game Plus, and more slated to arrive for the Xbox RPG.

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The Outer Worlds 2: Release window, trailers, story details & everything else we know

Space isn't safe from money-hungry corporations, and sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds 2 will play with that idea in 2025. Here's everything we know about Obsidian's sci-fi sequel.

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Larian boss Swen Vincke says the studio is 'deep in the trenches' on its 'crazy-ambitious' follow up to Baldur's Gate 3, hopes to show it off no later than 2030 because 'my wife will divorce me if it takes longer'

"I hope that definitely five years from now I can tell you about it."

PC Gamer

Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone

Attention is the creativity-killer.

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The remaster of D&D classic Neverwinter Nights 2 still hasn't been announced, but it's already Steam Deck verified

I'm vibrating out of my seat.

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