Obsidian's Avowed has been delayed to early 2025

Update: Xbox has confirmed that Avowed has been pushed back to February 18, 2025 "to give players’ backlogs some breathing room."

Original article:

Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming Xbox RPG Avowed has been pushed back to 2025, citing a "busy" release schedule for Game Pass.

The details:

• According to journalist Tom Warren writing for The Verge's Notepad newsletter, Obsidian plans to announce the delay soon, pushing the release window from fall 2024 to early 2025. The delay is said to be to avoid a "very busy period" for Xbox Game Pass, and the game is in "good shape."

• Warren notes that the end-of-year release schedule is packed with major titles such as Assassin's Creed Shadows and BioWare's long-awaited RPG, Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The highly anticipated S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will also be released on Game Pass on day one, as will the service's first Call of Duty launch, Black Ops 6.

• When speaking with Eurogamer in June, Obsidian stated that Avowed was in the "polish phase" and that it was “finalizing” the game. It has also continued to reveal gameplay and other details about its mechanics, story, and world, comparing the length of its main questline to that of The Outer Worlds.

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