Kotaku

Obsidian's ill-fated 'North Carolina' game was slated for the next Xbox and published by Microsoft, according to sources familiar with the project who spoke to Kotaku today.

Yesterday, after almost seven months of development, Microsoft cancelled the project, our sources said. Obsidian consequently had to let go of 30 people, as reported by several outlets this morning.

One source close to the project informed Kotaku that Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart choked up while addressing the company during a meeting yesterday afternoon. While he normally projects loudly, the source said, he was chillingly quiet while informing staff that North Carolinahad been cancelled.

http://kotaku.com/5893427/rumor-obsidians-cancelled-project-was-for-the-next-xbox-published-by-microsoft

Oh well, Obsidian was not a good developer. Their best game of the generation was fallout; but that was a disappointment.

is kotaku retarded
obisidian is making XBLA game,not next gen game
from what i know it recently,only 343i started their new project(80% is for nextbox) at Feb

Where did you hear that?

Instead of spreading nonsense, why don't you go to the obsidian forum and read the cvs of the obsidian programmers who got sacked?

i don't need to hear

why i need to care what obsidian doing?

oh yeah,MS's fault,AGAIN

Hmmm

Well I guess it must've sucked for them to cancel it

We dont know that.

Thats to bad, Obsidian has some talent, with the right budget and dev time 720 might have had a hit RPG exclusive to help carry the system.

Guess MS didnt either have enough control on the game or didnt have the confidence in its ability to get great reviews.