By Samuel Tolbert
Publication Date: 2025-11-15 14:50:00
As the demands of generative AI continue to creep into facets of the gaming industry, Xbox Game Studios’ role-playing game (RPG) developer Obsidian Entertainment is apparently not among the teams that appear to be planning to embrace it.
In an interview with GameFile, Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer, Kate Dollarhyde and Leonard Boyarsky discussed the process of writing several important games in the studio’s history and how their experience has changed over time.
During the conversation, Boyarsky mentioned his comments from a 2019 podcast in which he speculated about AI-assisted writing. Boyarsky noted that he was now tempted to “turn his former self on its head” and that such a concept would quickly become “very unwieldy.”
When asked whether or not Obsidian Entertainment uses generative AI in its lyrics, Sawyer said that it is “not something we have used,” and Boyarsky added, “We haven’t used it at all.”
That’s a telling statement considering that obsidian…
