Wasteland 2 was awesome and i think part 3 was announced.

As for Torment: Tides of Numenera ...well, that game seriously sucked.

Obsidian was hit by layoffs in 2011 & 2012, they missed their bonus from Bethesda on New Vegas. A lot of the guys that made those three games aren't there anymore hence why they've been making smaller budget games like Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, ect.

Microsoft is now a true competitor in the game development space. This is pretty exciting. Looking forward to seeing what next gen holds for MS. Now all they need to complete the pie, is to buy Remedy.

I wonder if they are done or whether they will announce any more next E3? A couple more additions would certainly be welcome. Plus as I mentioned above, both of the new studios release a new game every 1-2 years, so they have the ability to keep the games coming, which is fantastic. Not to mention how gamepass suddenly looks like a must have purchase for any gamer next gen.

Well...there’s the final nail for a spiritual successor to New Vegas

Oh well

Phil Spencer is the man!

@ spurg

MS should have done this in the beginning with original Xbox.
with those foremention Dev hope not all of them developing open world only games.
except Turn 10 and Rare.

Nice to see them put their money where their mouth is. I'm starting to see a future where I might come back to Xbox.

2 Great RPGs studios? Lol sorry but nothing Inxile has made is great. All of their games are average at best.

Honestly, how many of them do you expect to survive long enough to release a game?

Inxile is a decent rpg company I wouldn’t call it great . Obsidian is a much better company but they don’t own any of those IPs

A lot of RIP will have to be given.

There are alot of salty people today. Its kindda like they wished MS wouldn’t announce any studio acquisition at this event lol.

The guys who make Ori, Moon studios I think is owned by Microsoft too, though I could be wrong. Either way they are an excellent dev too.

If they're allowed to continue making the games they have, I'll buy them on Xbox if that's the only place I can get them on consoles. Obsidian has been one of the most solid teams for CRPGs since the late 90s.

I do hope this doesn't mean PoE2 isn't cancelled for PS4. I don't think I'll rebuy it on a third platform just to carry over the save. I'll probably just pick it up on PC and play from my laptop if that's the case, though not preferable.

Inxile is okay. I really hated the Numenera ruleset implementation into the sequel to my favorite game of all time (which, coincidentally, was made by now Obisidian employees and Chris Avellone). Wasteland was good. Bard's Tale is a classic, but not great. So, if these guys leave behind bad rulesets or at least implement them in a manner where I don't feel like every choice I do is at the expense of extremely limited point pool (most decisions in a PnP game would have been roleplayed, but in CRPG, they decided to have them cost points for the most basic of decisions).

Microsoft won't do anything with these IP's. They are dead and won't be seen in the gaming world for maybe another 20+ years.

Eventually someone in the far future will buy the IP back from Microsoft for pennies on the dollar and do something with it again.

Microsoft doesn't make games. Microsoft entombs games.

I'm Playstation all the way but it's pretty stupid how you're gonna get a bunch of down votes for saying a clear and innocuous thing like that.

I know where you are going with this, but at least get the games right. YES, Obsidian developed the games you listed and own Alpha Protocol, they do not own New Vegas or KotOR. How you can leave out PoE or Tyranny is a bit mind boggling.

This is what MS bought for current IPs:
Torment (inXile)
Wasteland (inXile)
The Bard's Tale (inXile)
Alpha Protocol (Obsidian)
Pillars of Eternity (Obsidian)
Tyranny (Obsidian)

This is a great acquisition for the PC side, the problem is casual console gamers do not like these games...too much reading and thinking and being creative and stuff.

You're absolutely right

Obsidian did the excellent South park stick of truth as well.

All studios shadows of their former self - bar a few and I mean a few.

Sweet Jesus, are you on Microsoft's payroll or what???

Buying proven studios with popular IPs only to under-utilize them, retool them for multiplayer, while - possibly - exploiting those IPs?

Whoa I havent seen you since your 2010 trolling days.

Yep because its always a catch 22 with ppl like you. Despite the fact for many, many years everyone wanted MS to buy new studios. "MS with all their money should build or acquire studios" Has been said a million times over and the focal point of MS issue for a while.

So no its not Classic anything. MS needs to be doing this.

So for ages people say MS needs more studios yet when MS do just that it's still not good enough, guess some people are never satisfied

I mean it's good to see ms start to take themselves seriously in the industry, something they should have done decades ago, but I wish they would build their own studios instead of buy existing ones.

I'd still prefer this, though, then for them to spend money on timed exclusives.

You do realize that that's how Sony acquired many of their best developers right? Studios like Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games, Media Molecule and Sucker Punch were all bought by Sony.

Pillars 2 sold really poorly part of the reason they got bought out . Not sure there will be a 3 if 2 failed so miserably.

They're certainly making some good moves for that by acquiring some of these studios.

A little late 3 gens in to finally be aquiring studios... i cant wait for sony to fire bombs back on this little xbox parade

@srhalo

So the grudge you had with studios that made multi platform games before Sony bought them is all over with now for you?! How long did that take?

It’s just crazy how cut throat some “gamers” can be.. very finicky bunch.. they can only enjoy a good game from a publisher as long as the developer isn’t established, it has to be from scratch and then expect it right away then expect it to be better than a established developers game such as naughty dog...

Why do you idiots ride so hard for one side?

Yeah long as they make good games now that they got more studios