In an interview Obsidian’s CEO has spoken about a new RPG the company has been working on that is due to be announced soon.

Speaking to GameInformer, Feargus Urquhart said that the game began life as a proposed Xbox One launch title but due to difficulties in realising a vision that both Microsoft and Obsidian could agree on the game was cancelled. That led to the laying off of 40 staff which Urquhart classed as a low point for the studio.

Microsoft had expected the title to “feel like a first-party title”, but Obsidian had trouble nailing down exactly what that actually meant. As well Microsoft apparently put pressure on Obsidian to incorporate launch features of the Xbox One in the game as well as making it a game that people would want to spend the price of the console to get. Eventually the two companies parted ways.

Since then Obsidian have been asking around other publishers and seem to have found a partner to help them release the game, albeit in an altered form. The new project is going to be announced sometime in the new few months.

Any guesses as to what it’ll be like setting-wise? I can only imagine.