Xbox’s Obsidian Entertainment titles Grounded and Pentiment head to Nintendo Switch

What you need to know Grounded, a co-op survival game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios, is coming to Nintendo Switch.  Pentiment, a medieval narrative RPG also developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios, is also heading to Nintendo Switch.  This news was shared during a Nintendo Direct […]

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Pentiment gets updated with more languages and a new map area

What you need to know Pentiment is a critically-acclaimed narrative RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios. On Thursday, the studio announced that Pentiment is getting the 1.2 patch update on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC. The update brings expanded language localization for Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese, and support […]

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Pentiment Xbox review: A prodigious, pseudo-pious period piece of an imperfect past

History is a fickle creature, as objective fact is too-often buried and obscured by layers upon layers of subjective interpretation, cultural retellings, biased alterations, and, often, literal dirt and stone. The latest video game from Obsidian Entertainment, masterminded by the legendary Josh Sawyer at the helm of a small team of just 13 developers and […]

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Vampire Survivors, Return to Monkey Island, Pentiment, and more come to Xbox Game Pass in November 2022

What you need to know A new batch of games will be added to Xbox Game Pass in the first half of November 2022. The list is very heavy with adventure games including two The Walking Dead titles, Return to Monkey Island, Pentiment, and Somerville. Football Manager 2023 also launches this month alongside Vampire Survivors […]

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Xbox’s ‘Pentiment’ embodies the idea of video games as art

At Gamescom 2022, I got a little hands-on time with an upcoming Xbox Game Pass launch title from Microsoft team Obsidian – Pentiment. Pentiment was revealed in full at the Xbox E3-style showcase back in June. As expected, Pentiment is an artistic and unique murder mystery game from a team led by Josh Sawyer of […]

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Obsidian’s Pentiment gets November 15 release date on Xbox and PC

What you need to know Pentiment is an upcoming role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios.  At Gamescom 2022, Microsoft shared that Pentiment now has a release date of Nov. 15, 2022.  Pentiment has players solving murders taking place in 16th century Bavaria over the course of 25 years.  Like in other Obsidian […]

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