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As Microsoft continues hacking away at Xbox’s game studios as part of thousands of layoffs, the teams that are still under the company’s umbrella are finding out what’s next. Obsidian, the developer behind Avowed and The Outer Worlds, is, according to a new report from Bloomberg, canceling a planned Avowed sequel and pivoting to a new Fallout game. It’s something…

Obsidian Entertainment, one of the various studios impacted by the dramatic Xbox layoffs announced earlier this week, has reportedly started shifting its redesign director Josh Sawyer has reportedly been tasked with the development of this new Fallout game with the support of Bethesda, which also continues to work on new content for the multiplayer game…

Josh Sawyer, the director of Fallout: New Vegas, is reportedly heading up the new game

Among the massive cuts made today across Xbox, Kotaku understands that roughly one-quarter of Obsidian Entertainment, the first-party studio behind Avowed, The Outer Worlds, and Pentiment, is being let go