Pillars of Eternity

Pillars of Eternity Marketing and Distribution Deal Inked

Despite the fact that the game raised millions of dollars for its development, Obsidian Entertainment still needs to rely on someone to market and distribute Pillars of Eternity when it’s ready for public consumption later this year. And that someone…

Pillars of Eternity Dev Q&A

Pillars of Eternity’s executive producer and lead programmer Adam Brennecke has fielded a barrage of fan questions on the official Obsidian Entertainment forums, and as you can well imagine, most of them deal with the upcoming crowdfunded title he’s working…

Pillars of Eternity Post-funding Update #72: Release Date

It appears that Obsidian Entertainment’s original ship date expectations on their Project Eternity Kickstarter campaign were very close, as the seventy-second update confirms that the Infinity Engine-inspired RPG should make it to our hard drives sometime during the winter of…

Pillars of Eternity Preview

A fairly short preview for Obsidian’s Kickstarter-funded Project Pillars of Eternity is available at PC Gamer. It seems to be based on a conversation with project director J.E. Sawyer: (Combat rounds can be very limiting,) Sawyer says, referring to the…

J.E. Sawyer on Attribute Design and Sympathetic Villains

In addition to his video retrospective on Icewind Dale 2, Obsidian Entertainment’s J.E. Sawyer also published two videos concerning design. The first is about attributes and character concepts, while the second is about sympathetic villains and antagonists. They both (especially…

Pillars of Eternity Interview

If the “Winter 2014” date on Obsidian’s website wasn’t enough, project director Josh Sawyer has confirmed to Eurogamer that Pillars of Eternity won’t release in April 2014, its original Kickstarter date, in the course of a short interview. Here’s a…

Pillars of Eternity “Gathering Your Party” Session

Prior to Obsidian Entertainment’s revealing of Project Eternity as Pillars of Eternity, lead designer Josh Sawyer hosted a “Gathering Your Party” session at GDC in November, the entirety of which is now available on the GDC Vault. The nearly 31-minute-long…

The Best Videogames of 2014 and Beyond

Forbes’ contributor Erik Kain has put together a list of what he considers to be the most interesting upcoming titles, which includes Kickstarter favorites like Torment: Tides of Numenera and Pillars of Eternity, but also triple-A juggernauts like Dragon Age:…