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Obsidian Entertainment Announces Partnership with Paradox Interactive
Paradox to Support Obsidian’s Upcoming Release of Pillars of Eternity

SAN FRANCISCO — March 18, 2014 — Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth, today announced that they are entering into a partnership with Paradox Interactive to launch their upcoming role-playing game (RPG), Pillars of Eternity.

Pillars of Eternity, an RPG inspired by classic titles such as Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment, was funded via Kickstarter in late 2012, raising $4.5 million through both backer pledges on Kickstarter and Obsidian’s own website. Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian Entertainment, stated that every dollar raised through the crowdfunding campaign will be spent solely on the game’s development.

“This game would not have happened if not for the passion and generosity of our backers, and their faith in us to create the game they wanted,” said Urquhart. “How we are developing Pillars of Eternity has not, and will not be, changed; we will deliver the game we promised to our backers, and we will deliver it this year. Having Paradox as a partner, with their expertise in independent games like Pillars of Eternity, lets us put all of our focus on making an incredible game.”

Paradox will assume key marketing and distribution responsibilities for the title, which will support Obsidian by allowing them to concentrate entirely on development.

“When we signed this partnership we called it two independent players in the games industry supporting each other to stay independent by doing what we do best,” said Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive. “The fans backing this game—many of us included—are looking forward to a classic RPG as envisioned by the designers at Obsidian, and that’s exactly what they’re going to get.”

Obsidian and Paradox have published a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for Pillars of Eternity backers, including further details on the new partnership, and on backer rewards, which will remain unchanged. To view the FAQ, please visit http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/65751-poe-faq/

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Shams is tweeting about it already
This is what I found in Shams's twitter:
Big stuff being announced today - major new partner & game. Very excited and proud of this one! Stay tuned at 4 CET. #getyourdiceready
As usual whenever we're about to make a new big announcement I tell the Rome 2 fans to prepare their bodies. So here goes. Prepare your body
So a new game? Interesting, I suppose it will be Project Augustus, but there is no new subforum for it so perhaps it's a new game published by Paradox Interactive and not developed by PDS. Perhaps developed by the misterious new partner? :)
 

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I hope that EvW will be brought back to life in one way or another. Although I do not expect that to be the case unfortunately...
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This is what I found in Shams's twitter:


So a new game? Interesting, I suppose it will be Project Augustus, but there is no new subforum for it so perhaps it's a new game published by Paradox Interactive and not developed by PDS. Perhaps developed by the misterious new partner? :)
what is his twitter address?
 

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Well holy shit, that was unexpected but quite amazing.

But more importantly will now the game have Byzantium or we will need to make a Byzantine mod ourselves?
 

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The beauty of Paradox today is that we can do more than one thing at the same time, for instance, at our previous press conference we had 4 announcements from Paradox Development Studio. So I think I dare promise that there will be plenty to be excited about for those of you who are more into our strategy portfolio this year and coming years.

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