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Game company
Obsidian Entertainment
Company data
founded in: 2003
founded by: Feargus Urquhart
Chris Parker
Darren L. Monahan
Chris Avellone
Chris Jones
headquarters: Santa Ana, California (USA)
key people: Feargus Urquhart, CEO
Chris Parker, COO
Darren L. Monahan, CIO
Chris Avellone, CCO
Chris Jones, CTO
Fallout games
developer for: Fallout: New Vegas (upcoming)
Other games
developer for: Neverwinter Nights 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
External links
homepage: http://www.obsidianent.com
Wikipedia: Obsidian Entertainment
MobyGames: Obsidian Entertainment

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

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 2010.

[edit] 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 (in development)
  • Fallout: New Vegas (in development)

[edit] See also


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