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Brother None
October 22, 2009

Bethesda/Interplay Lawsuit Filings Detailed

This is essentially a repeat of our earlier news on Interplay’s court filings, but with the added bonus of having significantly less bias to filter through, as Interplay has now summed up its court filings in a recent 8-K filing.…

Brother None
October 17, 2009

Bethesda/Interplay Lawsuit Filings Detailed

Interplay stockholder frymuchan has posted on the Raging Bull Stockholder forum summarizing the court filings done by Interplay in response to Bethesda’s suit. Of interest is that Interplay does not agree that their contract with Bethesda did not allow them…

BuckGB
October 10, 2009

Tim Cain Interview

The MMO Gamer had the opportunity to conduct a lengthy interview with RPG veteran Tim Cain about the unnamed MMORPG he’s currently working on at Carbine Studios, as well as the stellar games he’s worked on over the years. A sampling:…

BuckGB
October 9, 2009

Chris Avellone: General Design Questions, Part One

Veteran RPG designer Chris Avellone took a moment out of his busy day to answer quite a few fan-submitted design questions on the company’s blog system. Part one includes nine questions, the second of which I’ll quote below: 2. Do…

BuckGB
October 7, 2009

The History and Review of the Fallout Series, Part One

The first half of Media Consumes Me’s fairly elaborate history of the Fallout series is online, which takes us on a quick journey from Electronic Arts’ Wasteland to Interplay’s much-despised Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. What made Fallout unique for it’s…

BuckGB
September 12, 2009

Further Details on Bethesda/Interplay Lawsuit Surface

Ausir from The Vault stopped by our forums to point out that Bethesda has technically filed two lawsuits against Interplay. The second one is over Interplay’s decision to sell Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics on Good Old Games, Steam, and…

BuckGB
August 20, 2009

Taking a Tablet PC to Retro Role-Playing Nirvana

After stumbling upon the fan-made high resolution mods for the Infinity Engine series and early Fallout titles, Ars Technica tells us just how entertaining these role-playing games can be on a modern tablet PC. Like many thirty-something gamers, I don’t…

BuckGB
August 20, 2009

Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics Get Steamed

Interplay has teamed up with Valve to release Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, and the full Fallout collection on Steam. Beginning today, Interplay titles including the original Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Sacrifice and Kingpin will become available for purchase…

BuckGB
June 12, 2009

Obsidian Entertainment Interview

Feargus Urquhart is one of the most prominent figures in the role-playing video game business, having spent the last 18 years of his life contributing to it. We’ve chatted with many of Feargus’ colleagues over the years, but never to…

TomC
June 24, 2006

The History of Fallout

(War. War never changes.) Like an old friend, those familiar words have greeted Fallout players with each installment of the beloved series. However, while war may or may not change, Fallout has changed with each game. Some of these changes…