New Obsidian Kickstarter Might Come This Fall

Speaking with Eurogamer about their free-to-play tank-based MMO Armored Warfare, Obsidian’s CEO Feargus Urquhart commented on the status of the company’s next Kickstarter campaign, which was previously strongly hinted at in a Rock, Paper, Shotgun interview. In short, South Park: The Stick of Truth’s late release delayed their plans a bit, and now they’re planning to launch this campaign early this Fall:

“South Park consumed more time and so, while we’ve been working on what that’s going to be, we just don’t feel like we’ve gotten it to where we need it to be, so we’re going to push that out,” he said. “My hope really is to look at an early Fall Kickstarter. We like that as well because we’ll be done with Eternity.”

“I think we have a pretty cool idea for what that’s going to be, but we want to vet it internally a little bit more. It gives us time, and then people don’t think we’re just going to use the money to finish Eternity.”

Apropos of nothing, but Feargus also discusses some idea for Star Wars games, though he readily admits that the company has made no progress with their pitch to Disney:

“I always thought – and everyone just looks at me strangely when I say this – it would be cool to do a Star Wars Pillars of Eternity-style game, where you had a little party, a droid and a… whatever. That would be super-cool. I’d buy it!

“But that’s a hard [sell]… That’s not SWTOR and that’s not KOTOR and that’s not Battlefront and that’s not that. I don’t know – I’m probably going to take a stab at that and see if anybody has any interest, but I don’t know – we’ll see.”