Obsidian Entertainment

Obsidian Entertainment is an American video game developer known for making sequels of well-known franchises including Neverwinter Nights 2 and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.

Official Site: obsidian.net Company Size: 200+ Region:  United States Year Founded: 2003 Phone Number (US): +1-949-379-3300 Email: @obsidian.net

Obsidian Entertainment was founded in 2003 by Feargus Urquhart, Darren Monahan, Chris Parker, Chris Avellone, and Chris Jones, all previous employees of Black Isle Studios, a subsidiary of Interplay Entertainment known for creating the Fallout series. The company initially operated with seven employees, including the company’s five founders, and an estimated capital of $100,000 - $125,000 which came from Parker, Urquhart, and Monahan’s own pockets. In order to secure more capital the company approached several well-known publishers including Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Treyarch, and Troika.

Since Obsidian Entertainment was established, they have worked with several other big-name companies including Atari for Neverwinter Nights 2, Bethesda for Fallout: New Vegas, and Sega for their first original game Alpha Protocol, which was well-received by gamers but was ultimately a commercial failure for Sega. Almost a decade after its establishment, the company almost went bankrupt due to numerous cancelled games and games not meeting publisher standards. This prompted the company to turn to launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund their project Pillar of Eternity a successor to Baldur’s Gate. The campaign was a huge success and was able to raise $4 million. Pillars of Eternity was released in March 2015 with Paradox Interactive as its publisher and received positive reviews. Chris Avellone, one of the company’s co-founders announced his departure from Obsidian in 2015. In August of the same year, the company partnered with inXile and Double Fine to launch a new funding website called Fig which focused exclusively on video-game related campaigns. Obsidian plans to use Fig as its crowdfunding platform for future projects.

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