Avowed is dodging one of the games industry’s biggest sinkholes—and we couldn’t be more relieved
Obsidian has confirmed that its upcoming RPG, Avowed, will not be an open-world title. While some may feel this is a poor ...
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Avowed Not Being Open-World Is A Good Thing, Devs Say
Avowed has "defined zones" that are large, but the developers say being truly open-world is not in the game's best interests.
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Avowed Features "Incredible Freedom", As The Developers Claim Players Will Choose Their Own Adventure
The developers behind Avowed are promising players an incredible amount of freedom to make choices with all kinds of ...
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Avowed Character Creation Lets Players Pick A Background That "Shapes How The World Perceives" The Player
Obsidian has provided an early look at Avowed’s character creator, and it looks just as detailed as any fantasy RPG fan could ...
Xbox Developer Direct 2025 Recap: Here’s Everything Announced
Xbox today at its Developer_Direct 2025 shared new games coming to Xbox and more. Some of the highlights include Ninja Gaiden 4, coming this fall, and from the trailer, it looks pretty awesome. Here ...
By opting out of an open world for Avowed, Obsidian says it can give players more interesting choices to make: 'Pacing is really tough in open world games'
Given that it's a Microsoft-published story about a Microsoft-published game, it's a bit fawning, but it's worth a read to ...
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Xbox App Headed to LG Smart TVs This Year
Xbox is ringing in the new year by taking yet another step toward its promise of making everything an Xbox: by announcing it will add the Xbox app to LG TVs later this year. More like this Avowed ...
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Avowed developers explain why the game isn't open world
Largely, it's about choice, but we won't be able to go wherever, whenever. Speaking in a recent interview to Xbox Wire, Avowed's region director Berto Ritger explained why we're not going to see an ...