- Obsidian game director is sick of hearing bad takes about the state of the studio: 'The through line from KotOR2 to our current games is pretty clear' - 12 July 2026
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced "the most significant restructure in Xbox history", which is what you call it when you lay off thousands of people and cut four game studios loose . Double Fine and Compulsion Games returned to their indie roots; Ninja Theory and Undead Labs were sold off. While it seemed at first like Obsidian Entertainment had avoided the headsman's axe, we soon found out they were also hit with plenty of layoffs of their own ... Read more.
- They finally made an action figure of Star Wars' most evil and nasty grandma but it's already sold out - 11 April 2026
s reported by The Toyark , Hasbro recently opened preorders for an Amazon-exclusive action figure two-pack in its primo Black Series line, one that revisits the all-timer Star Wars RPG and perennial PC Gamer favorite, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. Unfortunately, the dang thing's already sold out... Read more.
- The now-settled KOTOR 2 lawsuit saw accusations of demonic possession and the plaintiffs' lawyer hitting back at Aspyr with Lil Wayne lyrics: 'Okay you're a goon, but what's a goon to a Goblin? Nothin. Nothin. You ain't scaring nothing.' - 23 December 2025
The strange case of the gamer's lawsuit against Aspyr was resolved earlier this month. The suit, which saw a fan upset at the studio's "false advertising" after DLC based on KOTOR 2's Restored Content Mod failed to materialise as part of its Nintendo Switch port, culminated in a settlement between Aspyr and the gamers who brought the suit to bear... Read more.
- Nicky Katt, the voice of Atton Rand in Knights of the Old Republic 2, has died aged 54 - 13 April 2025
s reported by AV Club , actor Nicky Katt has died at age 54 of an unspecified cause. While he's better-known to most for a portfolio full of character actor roles, often as a jerk or bully or outright villain in movies like Dazed and Confused, Strange Days, SubUrbia, Boiler Room, School of Rock, The Limey, and Way of the Gun, Katt will probably be known to readers of PC Gamer as Atton Rand in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2... Read more.
- You can pick up the best Star Wars RPG ever made on the most forgettable launcher ever made for free if you're a Prime Gaming sub - 12 July 2024
They have, by my count, made approximately 600 Star Wars games over the last few decades. That's pretty weird, because you only need, like, three or four. Those would be TIE Fighter, Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR), KOTOR 2, and—I don't know—probably Empire At War... Read more.
- The original Baldur's Gate leads Prime Gaming July free games roster - 27 June 2024
Baldur's Gate 3 unquestionably led the conversation in 2023. The standout Larian Studios RPG masterfully weaves the classes and settings of Dungeons and Dragons into a gripping, choice-driven story packed with memorable characters. But Larian's appointment for the role was long-considered, given the reputation of the franchise as some of the best PC games ever made, and now you can get the definitive release of the first, BioWare-developed, game in the series as a free game if you subscribe to Prime Gaming in July. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: If you love Baldur's Gate 3, the original RPG classic is less than $5 Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is getting a major update soon We got the co-creator of Fighting Fantasy to review Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, and Neverwinter Nights
- Nothing makes sense anymore: They're making Funko Pops out of the cult classic 2004 Obsidian RPG, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords - 6 May 2024
I try not to be a Funko Pop hater guy⁠. It's always struck me as one of those "edgy" opinions that's actually quite pedestrian⁠—"Oh please, tell me more about which nontraditional picks you actually consider to be Christmas Movies." Most of the time, I endeavor to have no opinion either way on the ubiquitous vinyl tchotchkes. But now it's personal: they brought Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords into it... Read more.
- A mysterious 'third party' forbidding an embattled studio from bringing an essential Star Wars mod to consoles has left the dev fending off a gamer class action lawsuit - 18 November 2023
s reported by Axios , developer Aspyr has argued that a class action lawsuit brought against it over the cancellation of a Restored Content DLC for the Nintendo Switch version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - The Sith Lords should be dismissed. The DLC was announced in June of 2022 before getting canceled after a year of radio silence, with Aspyr offering customers a free game to make amends... Read more.
- 7 times potentially awesome content was cut from a game during development - 5 January 2023
Cut content is an inevitability in the business of making videogames. A studio might generate a million ideas over the course of a five-year development cycle, but as the release date looms, the casualties start piling up. Storylines get scrapped, concept art never migrates into the code, narratives are truncated, mechanics are abstracted and simplified, and years later, creative leads conduct interviews about their lingering white whales—the grand ambitions that were negotiated down in order to meet a deadline, or good ideas that just got iterated out because they didn't make sense for that particular game... Read more.
- BioWare had a really cool idea for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - 20 September 2021
With the recent news of a Knights of the Old Republic remake , we thought it'd be fun to return to this look behind the curtains of BioWare's groundbreaking original. This piece was originally published in December 2017. There are spoilers ahead for Knights of the Old Republic. How do you follow a game like Knights of the Old Republic, the most famous original Star Wars tale a video game has ever told? Forget about Obsidian's sequel for a moment and imagine it was BioWare staring at a piece of paper wondering how to follow a twist like Revan's. Because once upon a time BioWare was - and it came up with an idea. Read more
- My favourite planet: Star Wars' twisted and scarred Malachor V - 20 May 2021
In my mind, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has loads of memorable planets, but I don't know whether it's because they were brilliant, or because this was simply the first time BioWare had done this : take me from one planet and land me on another. Mass Effect wasn't a thing then, remember. It was still a whole Jade Empire development away. But 18 years later I can still remember Manaan. And by Manaan, I don't mean my nan, but the water planet in KOTOR you dived under the surface of, in search of secrets, only to be chased by huge alien sharks. And there was Kashyyyk, with three 'y's, the forest homeworld of Chewie's race, the wookies. And there was Korriban, the sacred Sith homeworld. A place like the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. A place of tombs and darkness, secrets and treasure. But there's one planet in the Knights of the Old Republic saga which looms over all others (and I…
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake developed by Aspyr - 21 April 2021
The unannounced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake will be developed by renowned port studio Aspyr. Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier revealed the detail while a guest on the MinnMax podcast . It follows earlier whispers of a KOTOR remake which have swirled for some time , and which also suggested the project wasn't being handled internally by EA or original studio BioWare. Eurogamer has separately heard of Aspyr's involvement, and that while the developer is known for often releasing straight ports, work is currently underway to make the project more of a remake instead. Read more
- What if: instead of more KOTOR, we got Knights of the High Republic? - 26 January 2021
So, it looks like we're getting a KOTOR remake . Ever since Disney announced the revival of LucasArts via Lucasfilm Games earlier this year, rumours and speculation have been circulating over which new Star Wars games we're going to see. EA has confirmed it's still making Star Wars games, and we know a Ubisoft Massive open-world game is in the works too. We'd also heard that something KOTOR related was in the works at Aspyr. I had my doubts it was a 'new' KOTOR game, but neither was I expecting a full-blown remake of BioWare's classic either. This feels like we're on the cusp of a new golden age of Star Wars, and the long-awaited return of this beloved series. But when I stop to reflect, I think I would have preferred we move on from KOTOR. I believe the dream of a 'true' Knights of the Old Republic sequel - whether that's KOTOR 3 or something else using the same setting - is probably s…
- Five of the Best: Villains - 22 May 2020
Five of the Best is a weekly series about the small details we rush past when we're playing but which shape a game in our memory for years to come. Details like the way a character jumps or the title screen you load into, or the potions you use and maps you refer back to. We've talked about so many in our Five of the Best series so far. But there are always more. Five of the Best works like this. Various Eurogamer writers will share their memories in the article and then you - probably outraged we didn't include the thing you're thinking of - can share the thing you're thinking of in the comments below. Your collective memory has never failed to amaze us - don't let that stop now! Today's Five of the Best is... Read more
- Star Wars Day means star-sized sales on Star Wars games - 4 May 2020
Oh look, it’s Star Wars Day and to celebrate of course an entire galaxy of Star Wars games are on sale. There are discounts to be had on all yer old favorites from back in the day and some of the newer laser sword adventures of the decade as well. (more…)
- Lucasfilm makes Knights of The Old Republic's Revan canon - again - 6 January 2020
One of the best Star Wars video game characters ever is now canon - again. The Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary book references Revan from BioWare's wonderful 2003 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game, making the popular playable protagonist canon again after Lucasfilm wiped the extended universe slate clean back in 2014. The book has a page on the Sith Troopers, which are organised into legions each named after "an ancient Sith lord". The third notable Sith Trooper legion is called Revan Legion, which makes Revan from KOTOR canon. Read more
- Five of the Best: Caves - 13 December 2019
Each week, Five of the Best gives love to the overlooked parts of games. The things you don't notice when you're playing because you're too busy doing more important things. But you remember them. They're there in your memory all the same. So much so that when someone says something like, "Which are the best caves in games?" Some immediately spring to mind. So: which are the best caves in games? Let's give it a try, shall we? I've been caving - spelunking - before, back when I was a teenager, and I'm not sure I could do it now. I remember having to swim in icy cold water under a stalactite and shimmy along tunnel-like passages. I don't know how I did it - it gives me the shivers just thinking about it now. Read more
- The 8 least qualified Jedi in Star Wars games - 15 November 2019
One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be let off. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is out today, letting you follow in the roguish bootprints of young force punter Cal Kestis, played here by Archie of Archie comics. In celebration of his boyish padawan appearance, and the way he uses a deadly weapon like you d use a torch app with dodgy permissions to find your keys, let s make a list. A list of the least qualified Jedi (and Sith) in PC games. (more…)
- Visiting post-acquisition Obsidian to see how much has changed - 14 November 2019
I visited Obsidian Entertainment a couple of weeks ago for the reveal of the studio's first game for new owner Microsoft. If you remember, The Outer Worlds was published by Private Division, Take-Two's label for partnering with independent studios (Obsidian was independent when the deal was made). This was, then, a significant moment. The game itself was a bit of an anti-climax - Grounded, a small-team survival game with a Honey I Shrunk the Kids hook - but I still got an opportunity to nose around the studio and see what changed post-acquisition and since I visited in August 2017 . The answer, in a nutshell, is "not a lot", which is encouraging. Obsidian still resides in the same office block in the eerily perfect city of Irvine, California, and still occupies the same amount of office space. It's still a bit tatty, which I like, and the only real sign there's now Microsoft money behin…
- The 10 best Star Wars games on PC - 13 November 2019
A new hope. After two boring-but-fine Star Wars: Battlefront games, we’re now on the verge of EA’s third swing of the lightsaber with the release of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order . There are reasons to think it might be more interesting than early trailers suggested, after writers such as our own Matt came back from a recent preview event with his pockets filled with (qualified) comparisons to Sekiro . What are the chances that it will live up to the very best Star Wars games to grace the PC, however? Here are our picks for the company Fallen Order should aspire to keep. (more…)
