Obsidian Entertainment

Obsidian Entertainment, founded in 2003 after the dissolution of Interplay Entertainment's 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 and Chris Jones. In July 2005, they hired Joshua Sawyer of Icewind Dale fame. Several of the developers at Obsidian worked on Fallout, Fallout 2 and Van Buren (the canceled Fallout 3 project).

Obsidian's first office was in Fergus Urquhart's attic before moving to an office park not too far away.

Bethesda Softworks announced on April 20, 2009, that a new game in the Fallout series, Fallout: New Vegas, was being developed by Obsidian. The game was released on October 19, 2010.

Obsidian was purchased by Microsoft Studios in November 2018, becoming a subsidary of Microsoft's video game production wing.

Products

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (released for Xbox in 2004 and for PC in 2005)
 * Neverwinter Nights 2 (released for PC in 2006)
 * Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (released for PC in 2007)
 * Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (released for PC in 2008)
 * Alpha Protocol (May 28, 2010)
 * Fallout: New Vegas (Oct 19, 2010)
 * Dungeon Siege III (Jun 21, 2011)
 * Wheel of Time (co-developers; cancelled )
 * South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014)
 * Pillars of Eternity (2015)
 * Pathfinder Adventures (2016)
 * Tyranny (2016)
 * Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (2018)