{"id":61329,"date":"2018-11-10T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/330417"},"modified":"2018-11-10T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T23:41:00","slug":"obsidian-inxile-acquired-by-microsoft-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/10\/obsidian-inxile-acquired-by-microsoft-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsidian, inXile acquired by Microsoft Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced the acquisition of RPG-centric studios Obsidian and inXile Entertainment, as part of a host of announcements at its X08 event in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the studios comes as Microsoft ramps up its Game Pass monthly subscription service, and follows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/319704\/Microsoft_adds_five_game_studios_to_firstparty_stable.php\">a similar E3 2018 announcement<\/a> which added new studio The Initiative, Undead Labs (<em>State of Decay<\/em>), Compulsion Games (<em>We Happy Few<\/em>), Playground Games (<em>Forza Horizon<\/em>), and Ninja Theory (<em>Hellblade: Senua\u2019s Sacrifice<\/em>) to Microsoft&#8217;s internal studios.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran RPG studio Obsidian is widely known for games like<em>\u00a0Fallout: New Vegas<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II<\/em>, and its own<em>\u00a0<\/em>more recent\u00a0<em>Pillars of Eternity<\/em>\u00a0series, and inXile is notable for its work on <em>The Bard&#8217;s Tale<\/em> franchise, <em>Wasteland 2<\/em> (&amp; the upcoming <em>Wasteland 3<\/em>), and a number of other RPG titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced the acquisition of RPG-centric studios Obsidian and inXile Entertainment, as part of a host of announcements at its X08 event in Mexico. The addition of the studios comes as Microsoft ramps up its Game Pass monthly subscription service, and follows a similar E3 2018 announcement which added new studio The Initiative, Undead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}