Player Affinity has breaking news on the long legal battle between Bethesda and Interplay over the rights to develop a Fallout MMO and the rest of the Fallout franchise.

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.

LegitimateJournalist via playeraffinity.com »