In recent years, some of gaming’s biggest breakout successes have been released during the post-Christmas lull between New Year and Spring. Traditionally, it’s supposed to be a quieter time on the calendar - where we’re all too full of turkey and trimmings and sated by games gifted over the holidays to have an appetite for anything new.
]]>Avowed sounds like it'll be handling quests a bit differently from other RPGs, as it turns out you'll be able to start almost all of them in more than one way.
]]>Obsidian Entertainment's latest RPG Avowed is almost here, and one of the devs behind it says he's never felt more confident in a game like this one.
]]>RPGs often have a lot of things to do that are easy to miss, but for one Avowed developer, that's "the core" of the genre.
]]>My least favourite trend in gaming has hit Avowed, meaning if you're happy to pay some extra money for it, you'll get to play it five days early.
]]>Romance options are pretty popular in RPGs these days, and even though Avowed doesn't have any, its director thinks it's better off without one.
]]>UPDATE (05/08/24, 09:10 AM BST): Xbox has now confirmed that Avowed's release date has been pushed back to February 18, 2025, "to give players’ backlogs some breathing room". This was revealed alongside an infographic which outlines that both Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Starfield's Shattered Space Expansionare still currently pencilled in to release at some point in 2024.
]]>Back in 2020, when Avowed was first announced, the internet had a pretty specific opinion of what sort of game it was going to be. It was Xbox’s Skyrim, right?
]]>Xbox has officially announced that it's not only going to have presence at this year's Gamescom, but will be assembling its "biggest booth yet", while PlayStation and Nintendo have both confirmed they're giving the show a miss.
]]>Avowed got another look-in at the Xbox Games Showcase last night, albeit without a release date - though Obsidian might have accidentally shared it afterwards.
]]>The latest trailer for Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed is here, bringing with it new gameplay to goggle over, but no release date as of yet
]]>This week The Shiitake Show asks: what's the point of Xbox? That's not us being sarcastic or snide. It's a question that everyone in the industry, not least Microsoft themselves, needs to find an answer to. A conflicted, convoluted vision for the platform has left it struggling for an identity at the dawn of a future it is trying to forge for us all, one where the console itself no longer matters. And yet, Xbox still needs us to buy Xboxes. It's a tricky position to be in, compounded by the perception that Xbox doesn't have any compelling exclusives. Watch below.
]]>If you're already plotting at the perfect build for Avowed, you better scrap those plans, as Obsidian says there isn't "one perfect build."
]]>Following its appearance at the recent Xbox Developer Direct, Obsidian has offered some fresh insight into what players will be in for when they delve into its upcoming fantasy RPG Avowed. The answers, you’ll no doubt be glad to hear, mention a lot of the stuff that people have loved in the likes of Baldur's Gate 3.
]]>Avowed, the upcoming fantasy RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is set to release this fall.
]]>It’s the $7.5bn dollar question: is Starfield good enough to make people buy an Xbox? It’s a platform that’s been frustratingly lacking in killer apps, but we’re starting to see the tide turn on that front, and Bethesda’s latest opus is a key title in Xbox’s line-up going forward. In the video below James and I discuss whether it’s good enough to warrant owning a Series S or Series X console:
]]>We received our first glimpse of the new Obsidian RPG - Avowed - at the Xbox Games Showcase earlier this month in the form of a two-minute trailer. The first-person fantasy game looks pretty good, but some fans already have tempered their expectations.
]]>We've just got our first proper look at Avowed, the upcoming first personal fantasy RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, courtesy of a lush new gameplay trailer shown off at today's Xbox Showcase.
]]>Three years into a console generation that launched at the height of a crippling pandemic, a number of astonishing and unprecedented things are happening. Firstly Sony, the platform holder with the most acute supply issues during COVID-19 and the related chip shortage, is winning. This is not up for debate. It's selling a lot more machines and, according to the best metrics we have, it's releasing better games. It certainly has the biggest exclusives.
]]>Xbox ended 2021 on a real high. In fact, the entire second half of the year was strong – with Flight Simulator, Psychonauts 2, Forza Horizon 5, and Halo Infinite, all of course coming to Game Pass on day one alongside a number of excellent "gets" for the service (Back 4 Blood being a highlight). Forza and Halo were lauded as two of the best games of the year, putting Xbox in a superb position as we rolled into 2022. Then, nothing.
]]>Avowed is the mysterious next game from The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian. It was revealed with the help of a CG trailer last year, which made it look like the studio's answer to Bethesda's Skyrim. Now, according to new information, it is that and so much more.
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