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"The details of the settlement have been made public and Bethesda now has full rights to the the Fallout Intellectual Property and to develop their own Fallout MMO. Interplay had allegedly begun development on the Fallout MMO with Masthead Studios but a second lawsuit by Bethesda resulted in Masthead no longer having any rights to the franchise either, leaving Bethesda in full control of all future Fallout games, and aborting any Fallout MMO that was in the works."
GOG.com is having a pretty cool sale from now until July 4th. What's in store for those that are interested? Well how about all 32 of their Interplay games for $2.99 a piece?
"To play through just one of the several possible storylines can take up to 50 hours, so it's little wonder that players often go looking for a little help when they come to the crossroads.
That's where The Vault comes in. It's an enormous repository of knowledge about the Fallout universe maintained by a community of fans in a similar way to Wikipedia.
Inside The Vault are 11,532 pages of information about every quest, character and location in the Fallout series, generated by more than..."
"In an SEC filing by Interplay posted today the company has revealed they do not plan on dropping their counter-suit against Bethesda over the Fallout franchise. Early today it was revealed Bethesda had dropped their appeal for an injunction that would effectively halt development of the Fallout MMO and Interplay's ability to sell past Fallout titles."
"We contacted the Fallout publisher to find out its reaction, and were told, "Well he is a big part of our Fallout brand and is copyrighted, so, yeah, deciding on your own to use him to promote your business or product, or to sell stuff, or whatever, without getting permission from us ... not a good idea." Ruh oh!"
Keeping on with digital distribution service Good Old Games' Fallout week, we present to you a Fallout 2 retrospective interview.
In this one, we hear from the game's designers, as well as those who weren't involved after the first time and how they compare the two games. It's a great story which goes into a lot of the factors working against the team at the time -- a must-read for any Fallout fan.
Interesting to note is the Fallout MMO that seemed to be canned by Bethesda (who would ov...
Fallout Online -- I don't think many of you knew it was being made, did you?
Original IP holders Interplay are thought to be working on the Fallout Online MMORPG game. Interplay published Fallout 1&2, before Bethesda bought the IP and used the license for their RPG-lite FPS blockbuster Fallout 3.
Fallout Online (also known by code-name Project V13) has been in development for more than a year now, though it has not been officially confirmed that Interplay has secured enough money to s...
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