Fallout Wiki managed to get access to all of the court filings regarding the Bethesda v. Interplay court case over the rightst to the Fallout franchise, and it turns out that both parties have been presenting untrue statements to the judge.
An Interplay stockholder details the countersuit filed by Interplay against Bethesda in reaction to Bethesda's lawsuit over the rights to Fallout Online and the original Fallout games. Interplay argues Bethesda is in breach of contract abd the contract to sell the rights to the series to Bethesda is null and void and Interplay owns the franchise again.
I knew that Bethesda developers were using The Vault wiki as a source when working on Fallout 3. As it turns out, their legal department also does! Shacknews has a few more details about the Bethesda v. Interplay case, and their article includes a few quotes from the actual court filings, which in turn include at least one obvious paraphrase from the wiki.
New details have surfaced about Bethesda's lawsuit against Interplay over trademark infringement. Or lawsuits, because, as you can see in the court filings, there are two of them. The first one is over the rights to Fallout Online (codenamed Project V13). The second one is over Interplay's re-releases of original Fallout games, like the Fallout Trilogy pack or various digital distribution sites.
Eurogamer:
GameBanshee's fully searchable Fallout equipment database now includes icons, locations, and statistics for every single item from Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Fallout: BoS, Fallout 3, Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta.
GoGamer has listed this week's 48-hour Madness sale, offering up huge savings on several big name titles including Mirror's Edge, Prince of Persia, Beyond Good & Evil and twenty other games for less than $6 while supplies last.
Gamervision writes:
It's not often that one has the opportunity to group the word "Interplay" with the phrase "making a lot of money" but it looks like they're doing well lately. Their re-release of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics is cleaning up at retail, according to the NPD's figures for May 3rd to May 9th:
Caleb writes:
Interplay recently released a "Fallout Trilogy" bundle of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics to stores and the move has paid off. The compilation was one of the top selling PC games for the week of April 26th to May 2nd, according to the NPD Group:
Good old Games has just sweetened the pot by adding two more free extras to the Fallout Collection Promo they unveiled yesterday.
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include DeathSmiles, Little King's Story, Fallout Trilogy, and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2.
Good Old Games brings another great deal for vintage game lovers. First three Fallout games and lots of extra content (including soundtracks, avatars,wallpapers,artworks and Fallout Bible book) is only for $14.37 until April 27th.
Financial papers from Interplay suggest that Bethesda may intend to sue the struggling publisher over its planned Fallout MMO.
Shacknews is giving away any game you want from Good Old Games catalogue. If you want to win your favourite vintage game for free; just add a comment and tell them which game you want. They'll pick ten random contestants and give the games they've chosen.
inXile entertainment today announced that Jason Anderson, one of the original Fallout design team members, has joined the company as creative director for a new, unannounced Role-Playing Game (RPG) from inXile. Anderson recently left Interplay, where in his second tenure there served as creative director working on the Next-Generation MMO Project: V13.
Another weekend, another deal from retro digital gaming store Good Old Games. This time, they're offering a 15% discount on nine role-playing games in their catalog, including the first three Fallout games.
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus hit DRM-free digital game store Good Old Games today but that's not the biggest news. They're also offering a number of special holiday bundles so you can pick up classic game series like MDK and Fallout on the cheap.
Bethesda's Fallout 3 isn't even out yet, and already there's talk of when a sequel could show up -- and it's sooner than you think.