Ever since Obsidian and Bethesda found themselves under the same roof at Xbox, a proper follow-up to Fallout: New Vegas has been tantalisingly possible, but it never seemed like a priority for either company. Well, that's reportedly about to change: reports from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier indicate that Obsidian Entertainment is officially working on a new Fallout project, with New Vegas director Josh Sawyer back at the helm. While this is the exact holy grail of RPG announcements that we've all been hoping for, it has come at an unfathomable cost, amid mass layoffs at Xbox and an absolute gutting of talent at both of their beloved RPG stables.
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has mandated the studios in her charge to start playing the hits, meaning more Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Halo. This is arguably something that should have happened years ago, before laying off hundreds of the developers who actually build these things. But her predecessor Phil Spencer operated, as much as possible, a hands-off policy when it came to running the studios he acquired, for fear of changing their culture too much. Was this, ultimately, his downfall? And what on earth is happening to Arkane's Blade?