History
On March 23, 2006, Obsidian and SEGA announced that they would co-develop a role-playing game based on a new franchise. It was revealed to be Alpha Protocol, an RPG set in a modern-day spy adventure setting, which was released on June 1, 2010.
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. However, it has since been canceled for unknown reasons. Another game called Seven Dwarves (working title) was also canceled.
On April 20, 2009, Bethesda Softworks announced that a new game in the Fallout series, Fallout: New Vegas would be developed by Obsidian. It was released in October 2010. Of note is the fact that many Obsidian designers formerly belonged to Black Isle Studios, which produced Fallout and Fallout 2, as well as most of the series' lore.
On February 11, 2010, Red Eagle Games and Obsidian announced that they would co-develop game(s) based on the Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels by author Robert Jordan.
At E3 2010 it was announced that Obsidian would be developing Dungeon Siege III for Square Enix; the game was released in 2011. On September 1, 2011, Square Enix announced that the Treasures of the Sun DLC for Dungeon Siege III was forthcoming, with an anticipated release in October 2011.
Obsidian Entertainment revealed that they are pitching an unknown original IP to several publishers and are getting very good results.
On December 1, 2011, South Park: The Game was announced being developed by Obsidian. On March 14, 2012, Obsidian cancelled a "future next gen project", resulting in the layoff of approximately 20-30 employees both from that project and the upcoming South Park: The Game team.
Project Eternity was announced on September 14, 2012. It's the first Obsidian title that uses crowd-funded model, using Kickstarter. The funding ended successfully on 16 October 2012 having gathered $3,986,929, which beat the record amount for video games funded via Kickstarter previously held by Double Fine Adventure.
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