Obsidian Entertainment

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Obsidian Entertainment
Type Private
Founded Santa Ana, California (2003)
Headquarters Irvine, California[1]
Key people Feargus Urquhart, CEO
Chris Parker, COO
Darren Monahan, CIO
Chris Avellone, CCO
Chris Jones, CTO
Products Star Wars: KotOR II
Neverwinter Nights 2
(See complete products listing.)
Employees 135 (2008)
Website www.obsidianent.com

Obsidian Entertainment is an American video game developer founded in 2003 after the disestablishment of Interplay Productions' Black Isle Studios, is a video game developer for PC and console systems. Obsidian continues to operate under management by its founding officers: Feargus Urquhart, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan, Chris Avellone and Chris Jones. In July 2005, they hired Josh Sawyer of Icewind Dale fame.

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[edit] Games developed

On March 23, 2006, Obsidian and SEGA announced that they would co-develop a role-playing game based on a new franchise.[4] It was revealed to be Alpha Protocol, an RPG set in a modern-day spy adventure setting, on March 13, 2008.[5]

On December 13, 2006, SEGA officially announced that Obsidian Entertainment had been signed to develop a role-playing game based on the Aliens film franchise.[6] However, it has since been canceled.[7] Another game called Seven Dwarves (working title) was also canceled.[8][9]

On April 20, 2009, Bethesda Softworks announced that a new game in the Fallout series, Fallout: New Vegas will be developed by Obsidian, with an expected release in June 2010.[10]

[edit] Cancelled

  • Seven Dwarves — an original RPG powered by Unreal Engine 3
  • Aliens: Crucible — an RPG based on Aliens film franchise

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mueller, Mark (2008-08-11). "Game Companies Taking Office Space at Faster Clip". Orange County Business Journal: p. 82. 
  2. ^ "Fallout: New Vegas unveiled". Ellie Gibson. Eurogamer. 2009-04-20. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/fallout-new-vegas-unveiled. Retrieved 2009-04-20. 
  3. ^ "Feargus Urquhart Interview". GameBanshee. 2009-06-12. http://www.gamebanshee.com/interviews/feargusurquhart1.php. Retrieved 2009-06-12. 
  4. ^ "SEGA Partners with Obsidian Entertainment to Create Original Content for Next Generation Consoles". BusinessWire. 2006-03-23. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_n26804618?tag=artBody;col1. Retrieved 2008-11-01. 
  5. ^ "SEGA And Obsidian Set To Redefine The RPG Genre With Alpha Protocol". SEGA News. SEGA Corporation. 2008-03-13. http://www.sega.com/news/?n=1851. Retrieved 2008-11-01. 
  6. ^ "SEGA Signs Obsidian Entertainment To Develop Alien Title For Next-generation Systems". SEGA News. SEGA Corporation. 2006-12-13. http://www.sega.com/news/?n=1962. Retrieved 2008-11-01. 
  7. ^ "Obsidian's Aliens RPG Officially Finished". Giant Bomb. 2009-06-26. http://www.giantbomb.com/news/obsidians-aliens-rpg-officially-finished/1492/. Retrieved 2009-06-26. 
  8. ^ "Former Obsidian artist Ian Ameling's resume". http://www.ianameling.com/resume.pdf. 
  9. ^ Massey, Dana (2007-06-29). "Dev Profile Q&A: Kevin Saunders, Lead Designer on NWN2: MotB". Warcry Network. Themis Media. http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/interviews/devprofiles/4784-Neverwinter-Nights-2-Dev-Profile-Q-A-Kevin-Saunders-NWN2-Lead-Designer. Retrieved 2007-05-30. "I was the lead designer on project "New Jersey," which was never announced, and then helped with finishing up NWN2 over its last six months or so." 
  10. ^ "Fallout: New Vegas unveiled". Ellie Gibson. Eurogamer. 2009-04-20. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/fallout-new-vegas-unveiled. Retrieved 2009-04-20. 

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