Jessica has written for online outlets since 2008, and she joined Engadget in 2015 after four years as senior reporter at Joystiq. As Engadget’s primary video game editor, her work spans reviews, interviews with prominent developers, in-depth articles about indie creators, and videos on industry trends.
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission.It looks like 2025 is going to be an excellent year for action role-playing games. We’ve already started things off with a bigstudio Obsidian Entertainment . This is the studio's first tentpole title under the Xbox Game Studios banner and its first AAA fantasy game ever.
While I couldn’t determine its full scope in the preview I played this week, I’m pleased to report that so far,is a spin-off of the Pillars of Eternity series and it’s set in the Living Lands, an area unexplored in the existing games, giving Obsidian a blank canvas for an epic original story. A blight called Dreamscourge is spreading across the region, infecting plants, animals and people with a prismatic fungus that induces madness, rage and death.
Warden added, “Even on the quest front, we try to keep it enriched by lore, but you’re not completely lost when you're a new player.
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