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New IP by Obsidian Entertainment “Grounded” Announced at X019

Today, during the Inside Xbox livestream from X019, Microsoft revealed a new IP being developed at California-based studio Obsidian Entertainment.

Grounded

Today, during the Inside Xbox livestream from X019, Microsoft revealed a new IP being developed at California-based studio Obsidian Entertainment.

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The new game is titled “Grounded” and it’s a survival game in which the protagonist is shrunk to the size of an ant. 

The game won’t just come to Xbox Game Pass, but also to Xbox Preview in spring 2020. A demo is already playable at X019.

If you’d like to see more, Microsoft also released the first batch of screenshots showcasing characters, bases, and environments.

Obsidian Entertainment a well-known player in the gaming industry especially thanks to its contributions to the RPG genre. 

Last year they announced the acquisition by Microsoft, and now they are part of Xbox Game Studios.

It’ll be interesting to see if Obsidian Entertainment will manage to do well in an unfamiliar genre that also proved to be very challenging, as the other RPG veterans as Bethesda learned the hard way.

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Giuseppe Nelva

Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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