Obsidian Entertainment

	Game company Obsidian Entertainment
	Company data Headquarters Irvine, California (USA) Key People Feargus Urquhart, CEO Chris Parker, COO Darren L. Monahan, CIO Chris Avellone, CCO Chris Jones, CTO Corporate connections Parent Comp. empty Subsidiaries empty Other games Developer Neverwinter Nights 2 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Publisher empty External links Homepage http://www.obsidianent.com Wikipedia 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 20th, 2009, Bethesda Softworks announced that a new game in the Fallout series, Fallout: New Vegas, was being developed by Obsidian. The game was released on October 19th of 2010.

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 (May 28, 2010)
• Fallout: New Vegas (Oct 19, 2010)
• Dungeon Siege III (Jun 21 , 2011)
• Wheel of Time (Future game, co-developers)

See also

• Black Isle Studios
• Interplay
• Troika Games
• Bethesda Softworks

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