On November 10 , 2018 , it was announced that the studio had been acquired by Microsoft . Following the announcement of the acquisition , a month after , on December 6 , 2018 , during The Game Awards 2018 , Obsidian announced a new IP named '' The Outer Worlds '' , a single player action role-playing video game set in an alternate future in which megacorporations began colonizing and terraforming alien planets . The game is set to be released cross-platform in 2019 on Xbox One , Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch
The Game Awards 2018
The Game Awards 2018
Obsidian Entertainment