Obsidian Gets the Fallout Call Again, But Nobody’s Celebrating

Here is a sentence I never expected to write in 2026: Obsidian Entertainment is officially making a new Fallout game. Josh Sawyer, the director behind the beloved New Vegas, is back at the helm. On paper, this is the dream scenario every Fallout fan has been begging for over the past fifteen years. So why does it feel so wrong? Because this announcement arrives wrapped in Microsoft's latest round of devastating layoffs across the Xbox division. We are talking roughly 1,600 people cut from stud