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Bethesda vs. Interplay - courtroom misinformation (News)

Nov 12, 2009

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.

Interplay countersues Bethesda over Fallout rights (News)

Oct 17, 2009

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.

Bethesda's lawyers use the Fallout Wiki (News)

Sep 15, 2009

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.

Bethesda's lawsuit against Interplay over Fallout - new details (News)

Sep 12, 2009

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.

Fallout, Kingpin, Sacrifice on Steam (News)

Aug 22, 2009

Eurogamer:

Interplay classics Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Kingpin and Sacrifice have been added to Steam.

You can buy them for £6.29 each or you can squash the Fallout trio into a handy bundle for £15.99.

The Fallout games need no introduction, of course, but one also shouldn't overlook Kingpin - a brutal first-person shooter where you recruit and lead a gang and bash people's heads in with pipes.

Fallout Equipment Database Including All DLC Items (News)

Aug 6, 2009

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.

Fallout Collection, ArmA $10; Mirror's Edge, Beyond Good and Evil $6 on GoGamer (News)

Jul 24, 2009

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.

Fallout Free on Gametap (News)

Jul 17, 2009

Gamervision writes:
"You know what's better than getting good games? Getting good games for free. Gametap is making that easy right now, with Fallout being the current free game of the week. If that's not good enough for you, there are a few other free titles, among them the 2005 classic Psychonauts. If you haven't played the Tim Schafer gem yet, you now have no excuse."

US PC Sales: Fallout Trilogy Rides Again (News)

May 19, 2009

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:

Original Fallout Trilogy Released (News)

May 14, 2009

Caleb writes:

"I somehow missed the news on this.

The original Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics has been re-released."

US PC Sales: Fallout Feels The Love (News)

May 14, 2009

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:

Fallout Bundle adds more freebies (News)

Apr 22, 2009

Good old Games has just sweetened the pot by adding two more free extras to the Fallout Collection Promo they unveiled yesterday.

411mania's Release List for the Week of April 20, 2009 (News)

Apr 22, 2009

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 Fallout Collection Promo (News)

Apr 21, 2009

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.

Bethesda may sue over Fallout MMO (News)

Apr 16, 2009

Financial papers from Interplay suggest that Bethesda may intend to sue the struggling publisher over its planned Fallout MMO.

Interplay retained the rights to make online games based on Fallout when it sold the rest of the rights to Bethesda in 2004. However, it seems there were certain conditions involved in this - conditions which Bethesda claims have not been met.

According to the Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Bethesda claims that Interplay is in breach of their agreement because it had not commenced "full scale development" of the Fallout MMO by April 4 2009, and has not secured enough funding for the game.

Shacknews's Good Old Games Giveaway Contest (News)

Apr 4, 2009

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.

Fallout Developer Heads-Up New RPG (News)

Mar 18, 2009

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.

Fallout Is 15% Cheaper On GOG.com (News)

Jan 16, 2009

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.

Good Old Games Gets Holiday Deals (News)

Dec 24, 2008

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.

Turning back the clock on Fallout (Feature)

Dec 16, 2008

So, not happy with Fallout 3? If so, you’re crazy. Game of the year, in my not-so-humble opinion.But even though this irradiated epic is one totally fine modern RPG, loaded with the actiony, first-persony stuff that you just have to have in the post-Oblivion era, the new game is worlds apart from its predecessors, released by Interplay in the 1990s. Wake up from a decade-long coma and you’ll wonder what happened to the isometric ...

Bethesda Expects New Fallout in 3 Years (News)

Oct 27, 2008

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.

Howard then stated that three years sounds just about right, in terms of when Fallout 4 should come out.

Tim Cain, Producer and Designer of Fallout, Heads to NCsoft Owned Company (News)

Oct 7, 2008

Cryptic Studios, an NCsoft owned developer, has announced that the former producer and designer of Fallout 1 and 2 will be heading up their latest unannounced MMO project.

Original Fallout Now Free On GameTap (News)

Sep 28, 2008

GameTap, the online video game distribution service, this week announced the availability of Interplay Entertainment's beloved 1997 role-playing game, Fallout, free of charge.

Fallout is a good old game (Feature)

Sep 25, 2008

Visions of Deathclaws dance in the heads of RPG fans as they anxiously snooze in anticipation of the October 28 release of Fallout 3. Will series devotees consider it too different from the classic RPGs that spawned it? The original Fallout RPGs were modest commercial successes compared to their swords and sorcery contemporaries such as Baldur’s Gate; will developer/publisher Bethesda be able to replicate the blockbuster success it ...

Download your favourite PC gaming classics (News)

Sep 10, 2008

If you are a PC gaming fan, then you will be keen to check out a new service called Good Old Games that makes DRM-free PC classics available for legal download for the cost of a couple of pints.

Fallout Coming to GameTap This Thursday (News)

Jul 23, 2008

Ripten's Demi Adejuyigbe writes:

"As demonstrated during Microsoft's Press Conference at E3, Bethesda is nearing completion on the third iteration in the Fallout series, due out October 7th. Of course, with the changes that have been made to the series in Bethesda's hands, Interplay is giving gamers a reality check by releasing the first game in the Fallout series on GameTap - for free."

Fallout & other classics in CD Projekt's retro-PC store (News)

Jul 11, 2008

To gamers too young to have played the 1996 original, the excitement--and controversy---surrounding Fallout 3 might be a bit baffling. Now those wondering what all the fuss is about have a chance to play the first Fallout without having to track down a battered copy on eBay.

Fallout forefather Wasteland being resurrected? (News)

Jun 22, 2007

Wasteland, Interplay's post-apocalyptic RPG from the late '80s that inspired the Fallout series, could well be returning to the videogame world according to its creator Brian Fargo. "I am indeed looking into bringing back the game that spawned the Fallout series. Stay tuned..." Fargo, now at developer inXile, told Fallout community forum Duck and Cover. Wasteland was set after a nuclear holocaust and WWIII, putting players in command of a group of Desert Rangers that uncovered a sinister plot ...

Fallout license changes hands (News)

Apr 13, 2007

Gamasutra has gotten word of new filings with the SEC show that Oblivion and current Fallout 3 developer Bethesda Softworks has officially purchased the Fallout series IP from current holders Interplay for $5.75 million, with Interplay now acting as licensee for its own planned Fallout MMO.

Fallout MMORPG for 2010? (News)

Dec 12, 2006

Interplay seems to be planning production of a Fallout MMOG in 2007, with a view to launching the game in 2010 Well, that's according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing anyway - brought to our attention by Blue's News - in which it's stated that the budget for the project totals a whopping $75,000,000 "and will be funded by Interplay, its development and distribution partners."

An overview of the game is provided too: "The Fallout MMOG will be developed in the highly recognized Fallout post Nuclear Apocalyptic world giving consumers an ongoing virtual experience of today's life as if the cold war, which lasted for the best part of the second half of last century, had led to a nuclear disaster."

Interplay first revealed its intention to take Fallout into the MMORPG genre in 2004, but following the company's well-documented financial problems and assumed demise, it looked like it was game over for the title.

But now it appears that isn't the case, with Interplay apparently still breathing - although details in the filing have been met with scepticism (particularly the budget), and doubts that the MMOG will ever see the light of day shouted onto the internet.

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