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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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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As we already reported, Brian Menze decided to sell some of his original Fallout 2 Vault Boy drawings on eBay. He has now posted the second batch. The auction ends on November 19.
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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.
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Brian Menze, the artist who drew all the new Vault Boy art in Fallout 2 (the original Fallout ones were drawn by Tramell Isaac), and who is now working on Fallout: New Vegas, decided to sell some of his drawings on eBay.
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