2026-05-01 14:19 UTC · PC Gamer · Joshua Wolens
Regular readers of PC Gamer dot com slash author slash Joshua dash Wolens will know that, so far as I'm concerned, no videogames news is as exciting as "An old game is getting a patch for some reason." Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 hitting 2.7 out of nowhere? Ecstasy. Pillars of Eternity getting turn-based mode? Hold me up, I'm feeling faint... Read more.
2026-02-13 16:05 UTC · PC Gamer · Issy van der Velde
In a new video from The Outer Worlds director and Fallout co-creator Tim Cain, he talks us through tone in videogames. Tone is a tough thing to nail down. It's easy to feel, but hard to describe and harder still to execute well. Cain points to The Outer Worlds and its strict adherence to only portraying a particular type of discrimination as an example of why its tone felt off to a lot of players... Read more.
2025-12-09 22:02 UTC · PC Gamer · Andy Chalk
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2025-10-27 09:52 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
The Outer Worlds sees Obsidian returning to first-person RPGs for the first time since Fallout: New Vegas. After that spinoff, the studio focused on top-down CRPGs like the excellent Pillars of Eternity series. While not a Fallout game, and in no way connected with Bethesda, The Outer Worlds will look familiar to fans of the series, thanks to its retro-futurist aesthetic and open-world. Fans have been vying for a game of this ilk for a while as Fallout 4 struggled to match the wilder character and bright colours of Obsidian's New Vegas strip. But it also speaks to fans of the older isometric F
2025-06-08 19:26 UTC · Community Announcements · Obsidian Shyla
Coming October 29, 2025The Outer Worlds 2 launches October 29, 2025—pre-order now and explore Arcadia your way.If you thought Halcyon was bad, just wait until you visit Arcadia.Cut off from Earth, you arrive as an Earth Directorate agent with a mission. How you carry it out—who you help, hinder, or exploit—is up to you. Build your character with dynamic traits, flaws, and backgrounds that shape every decision and unlock new ways to fight, sneak, persuade, or just blow things up.Arcadia isn’t just bigger. It’s meaner, messier, and more reactive. And the only thing standing between it and collap
2025-01-31 16:07 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
While they both sit under the Microsoft umbrella, Obsidian is setting itself up to rival Bethesda with its Skyrim-inspired action RPG, Avowed, which is set to release in just a few weeks. Before then, it's well worth checking out the studio's earlier Fallout-inspired game, The Outer Worlds, which is completely free for Prime Gaming subscribers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Two brilliant action RPGs are free to keep right now, but move fast The Outer Worlds remaster, including all its DLC, is free for 24 hours Forget Starfield, grab this bundle of the best space games for 85% of
2024-12-13 09:54 UTC · Community Announcements · anpritc
The call to venture beyond the stars has returned, and this time, it’s bigger, bolder, and more unpredictable than ever. During The Game Awards 2024, we unveiled the first gameplay trailer for The Outer Worlds 2, promising a fresh adventure in a brand-new colony next year. No, really. The colony is completely new, and that’s a fact. Just, please—don’t break it. Yes, we’re looking at you, Hope-sun-launchers. True to Obsidian Entertainment’s signature style, The Outer Worlds 2 lets you carve your path through Arcadia, a colony brimming with factions, intrigue, and chaos. This is the birthplace o
2024-08-13 11:00 UTC · VG247
Tim Cain might be best known as a co-creator of the original Fallout, but some of his most recent work has come with Obsidian on its The Outer Worlds series. While he’s currently consulting on The Outer Worlds 2, Cain’s just shared a demo of the first game from just a year into its development, and it’s well worth checking out. In the video on his YouTube channel featuring this vertical slice - which he’s shown off with permission from Obsidian itself - Cain explains that it’s a vertical slice. What is that? Well, basically a limited section of the game which has to “look and play like t
2024-06-26 09:26 UTC · VG247
Original Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has discussed the idea of whether he'd be interested in potentially working on the series again, if he were asked to. The developer says his interest in any Fallout project he was pitched would mainly come down to one key element - "What's new about it?" If you're not aware, Cain has a YouTube channel where he regularly tells development stories from his lengthy career in the games industry - such as recently revealing his role in the events that led to the cancellation of Fallout Van Buren, Interplay's original Fallout 3. He also sometimes responds to ques
2024-05-02 17:38 UTC · PC Gamer · Wes Fenlon
Baldur's Gate 3 has certainly changed the conversation on sex in games, from the breakout viral moment around its bear sex scene to the way it turns intimacy, rather than sex, into the end goal of many of its relationships. Our RPG roundtable from this year's Game Developers Conference, now available on the PC Gamer Chat Log podcast feed, touches on the topic of sex in games—but it also spawned an incredible anecdote from Obsidian game director Carrie Patel from her time as a narrative designer on The Outer Worlds... Read more.
2024-04-07 16:07 UTC · PC Gamer · Ted Litchfield
It's time to slam that "forgot password link" on the Epic launcher and dust off your profile because the platform's got another dinger for its free game of the week: The Outer Worlds, Obsidian's 2019 space gilded age spiritual successor to Fallout... Read more.
2024-04-05 13:26 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
The Epic Games Store has carved out an impressive niche for itself: it somehow always manages to be offering a game you've always thought about playing, completely for free. This week, those games include the Thief reboot and The Outer Worlds. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Outer Worlds remaster, including all its DLC, is free for 24 hours Forget Starfield, grab this bundle of the best space games for 85% off The Outer Worlds was meant to be a "Fallout meets Firefly" game
2024-03-28 22:44 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Head over to the Epic Games Store on April 4th and you'll be able to grab The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition and Thief (2014) for free and to keep forever. Like a thief! Read more
2024-01-04 15:56 UTC · VG247
We might not know much about The Outer Worlds 2 yet, but one little nugget that’s just emerged is that its devs are getting some helpful guidance from Fallout co-creator Tim Cain. If Starfield didn’t quite live up to your expectations, odds are you’re looking forward to playing Obsidian’s next interstellar RPG, which was announced back in 2021, whenever it arrives. While that point might still be a while off, here’s a little bit of insight into how its development is going. Speaking to Rock Paper Shotgun, Cain, who served as a director for The Outer Worlds revealed that despite being now semi-
2023-12-25 16:37 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
The Outer Worlds' remastered Spacer's Choice Edition is free to download and keep forever for the next 24 hours. The acclaimed FPS RPG from Obsidian follows Fallout 3 and Ghostwire Tokyo as an Epic Games Store freebie for the holiday season. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Forget Starfield, grab this bundle of the best space games for 85% off The Outer Worlds was meant to be a "Fallout meets Firefly" game The Outer Worlds system requirements
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