Aside for the fact that Sawyer is apparently playing Kingmaker for the first time, the news to me is that he's working on a title that isn't either TOW 2 or Avowed.
This has been known for a while. Obsidian was said to be working on 6 projects last year, and Sawyer was not attached to any project already announced.
Originally Posted by IrenicusBG3
There have been some rumors for FNV 2.
Do you have sources? This would be great, though I'd prefer a new Fallout by the NV team on another setting.
@Wormerine beat me to it, but yeah it's been long known JES has wanted to make a no-combat historical RPG. His unannounced project (Project Missouri) team is very small at present, numbering only about 10 people. But keep in mind he is also Game Design Director for Obsidian, so he is the guy in overall charge of ALL Obsidian games in a supervisory way.
As for F:NV2, those rumors have been around for a while, and have naturally intensified since the MS takeover. But there are no concrete facts at all thus far. Obsidian's current projects are: Avowed, TOW2, Grounded, Sawyer's small project, and two other small teams still working on TOW1 and the Pathfinder card game. Those are the six projects: two big, one medium, and three small teams.
