Obsidian Working On New Projects - Licensed and Fresh

By Mark

Obsidian Entertainment have spoken about some upcoming projects that they have in the pipeline and what they'd like to work on.

The CEO of the developer Feargus Urquhart has been speaking to Game Revolution and talked about what the team has planned post Dungeon Siege III release. 

"There's nothing that's been moved forward, but we'd love to develop Dungeon Siege 4. On the flip side I think as a studio we have some original ideas and stories to tell."

He then goes on to talk about what they have in mind for pitches:

"We have a great idea for a new world we've just started pitching to publishers and we have an older pitch that we really like called 'Defiance' which is about a fantasy world where, basically, Sauron won. Everything isn't happy in The Shire, they didn't get the ring in the fire and the hobbits are all dead. We think that's a cool pitch and we hope to have a publisher pick that up at some point."

Most recently the developer has worked on Fallout: New Vegas which received favourable reviews from most with the biggest complaint being the amount of bugs in the game at launch. Previous to that they handled Alpha Protocol which was a fresh IP that released to really mixed opinions.

In terms of another new IP the team is currently at work on a project that is set to release on XBLA which is aimed at the first quarter of next year as they are also at work on a licensed IP which he couldn't talk much about:

"it's a licensed product that when people hear about it they're going to be 'well you had to do that. there's no option, if I was a developer and I was offered that I would just do it'. I'm hoping that'll be announced around E3."

So there's Obsidian's plans for the time being folks. Thoughts?