More Black Isle News

IGN has put together another report about Black Isle Studios, in which they offer some additional information from a new source (most likely a former employee). Here’s a snip:

Late last night, we received information from another source backing up the initial claims. “To set the record straight once and for all – Fallout 3 is cancelled, and Black Isle Studios has been effectively shut down, even if the name lives on. Fallout will probably continue to exist in console form, hence the ‘Fallout lives’ comment.”

Fallout 3, claimed to be nearly complete by our first source, would have been the long-awaited followup to the post-nuclear RPG which hasn’t seen a new release in the franchise since 1998. During this time, Interplay released Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel for the PC, a strategy game in the vein of UFO: Aftermath and X-Com, and was working on the action-oriented Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for the PlayStation 2, much to the disappointment of the community of Fallout fans who’d been hoping for a true RPG sequel.

Our newest source says that Interplay seems to be relying on semantic loopholes. “Technically, I suppose they are correct: Black Isle Studios isn’t shut down (still got two people left!) and Fallout 3 could not be cancelled since it was never announced.” According to the previous source, the two remaining employees had been working on an unannounced console title before coming to work for Black Isle.