Microsoft just aquired Obsidian Entertainment & Inxile Entertainment

They're going to acquire even more studios than those two apparently: "Microsoft will acquire Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, and Playground Games. Additionally, Microsoft indicated it was interested in acquiring even more new studios."

I hope MS isn't buying all those studios because they want to make them publish their games only on Windows Store and Xbox, and perhaps limit those games on PC to Windows 10.

Well... it could be worse. At least they have some funding then to make more games. Now if they could make alpha protocol 2 that would be great thanks.

I liked them being at Paradox, that is one of the more normal AAA publishers out there. Microsoft is not the absolute best decision, but so far as a game publisher on PC, they have one of the better track records from the past 20 or so years.

The only downside is that they will surely try to push the Windows Store for upcoming games, but if they also put them on GOG/Humble eventually, I am okay with it.

Even if the game quality not decreases. they're still going to probably be Xbox-first games.
And most likely Microsoft store, non-Steam games.

Bad news. It's possibly we will seen "Wasteland 3 - now only in Microsoft Store + only for Windows 10 + only with DirectX 12"

Noooooo

From youtube comment somewhere. Shadowrun might be interesting IP they could throw at these studios. Not isometric RPG, but great story to do... With hype from Cyberpunk 2077 it could do well...

'KHAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!'

Well Obsidian isn't what it used to be, MS isn't that great either. Member how they handled the SOD: Year One release that was a joke.

In a post-GFWL world I'm optimistic of this purchase if it meant saving the studio.
More and more of Microsoft's first party titles are heading to Steam,
It's possible there might be a time restricted console exclusivity, but considering how large my backlog is I'm fine with that.

Nowadays there's very few console exclusive games I'm interested in, RDR/RDR2 being the outlier, and even it was more likely pushed by PlayStation/Rockstar than Microsoft.

A shame really, but at the other hand, InXile Entertainment already had a foot in bankruptcy, Torment : Tides of Numenera and The Bard's Tale IV flopped commercially, Obsidian wasn't doing much better, Tyranny and pillars of Eternity II : Deadfire were met very well by critics and reviews, but the sales were poor, so, it was either this or shutting the doors.

Let's (naively) hope they'd be allowed to keep maximum creative freedom, and that the money flow from Microsoft will allow them to make bigger, better and even more ambitious games.

I would have been okay with obsidian alone, but Inxile? damn it

hopefully this won't be another hostile takeover, or hostile takeover because of bad financial situation of those companies because of their bigger than average ambitions. like with many others who never produced anything quality again after such takeovers (ex. Microprose). there are only few quality classic rpg producing companies (like Obsidian) :/ anyway i won't say news don't scare me a bit.

I guess cynicism is trendy, but whatever. We're all just carbon anyway.

Hexbox exclusives at some point? Would suck if I were using only a Sony or Nintendo console, but it's PC anyway I guess, and I use Windows (in case I fart). ;) As long as I can use Win 7, I'm cool with it.

I still think Microsoft makes the worst consoles known to mankind. I'd stick to computer/pc exclusively....

If M$ are smart and just let them make the games they want to make, this is amazing news. Big funding and will probably be on PC... the only bad thing is they could be Windows Store exclusive on PC, but I can forgive that as long as they are awesome games.

Hi @Identitools, Would you mind adding the official tweets from Obsidian https://twitter.com/Obsidian/status/1061393312710447104 and InXile https://twitter.com/Inxile_Ent/status/1061400512749338624 into the OP?
Thank you very much and Cheers, Cruse~ :)

Telltale Games needs a home.

At least there is hope for more pc games and not PS4 exclusive titles... if they dont fuck it up

Could be good, could be bad...we'll have to wait and see.

I think Microsoft just buys companies and studios to put them on shelves honestly.