[STEAM] Only 16 Fallout: New Vegas developers still work at Obsidian, says RPG's original writer

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Xbox subsidiary Obsidian

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along with most of the parent company's children during mass layoffs earlier this month, making the original Fallout: New Vegas team even more scarce. New Vegas writer Chris Avellone did the math, and it looks like only 16 of Fallout: New Vegas' total 73 developers still work at Obsidian.

"Some of the ex-NV developers were among those laid off last week, unfortunately," Avellone explains

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. 21-year veteran art director Dan Alpert was impacted, as was animator Shon Stewart, and assistant art director Paul Fish. "Shon in particular was a big surprise when I heard about it," says Avellone, "he's a great animator."

Because this keeps getting mentioned and the comparisons aren’t fair in some instances, here’s a list of New Vegas development team and if a Y/N if they still work at Obsidian.Note that Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, two of the three founders of Fallout are also there (last I…

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But many New Vegas developers had already been long gone from Obsidian. Character artist

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has spent the last seven years at Riot Games, for example, junior artist

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hasn't worked at Obsidian since 2012 and is currently an artist at Exodus studio Archetype, and

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– which he co-founded – in 2015. He's currently fiddling with secret "other projects, including RPGs," he

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Obsidian is now toiling over

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– which may or may not be the new Fallout game we already knew about,

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– after Xbox canceled its planned sequel to 2025 action-RPG Avowed. So while it isn't exactly thrilling news that only 20% of Fallout: New Vegas developers have jobs at Obsidian after 16 years of layoffs, game cancellations, new opportunities, and plain, old life, it's not a big surprise to me, either.

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain

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for an unrevealed project, and co-creator Leonard Boyarsky has spent the last decade at Obsidian. This doesn't satisfy the people on

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who begged Avellone for his Obsidian stats to begin with, but so little does.

"I wasn't sure about a few people on the list, so this may get revised," Avellone adds

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. "Still, better than nothing and a lot better than yelling back and forth."

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