Slashdot Mirror
Black Isle Studios Shuts Down Development
Zonk writes "RPGDot has a story up right now about the closing down of development at Black Isle Studios. The information comes from an unnamed Interplay source, who says 'Any time you see the [Black Isle] logo on a future product, know that no one who was associated with BIS actually worked on it', as well as a post by BIS employee Damien Foletto on the Interplay message boards, and a Blue's News story that adds: 'The non-announced [PC] title that the division was working on, Fallout 3 [aka Van Buren], has been 'shelved', to quote management.' BIS, you will be missed." Black Isle are particularly known for work on the Fallout series, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment.
Is this going to delay Half-Life 2? How about Doom 3? Halo 2? GTA 4? GT4? Warcraft 4? The next M$ RTS? Then who gives a crap?
As sad as I am to see another game maker go under, the fact of the matter is that the studios that stay alive are the studios that sell games. So what if a few thousand fans are pissed. I'm pissed that I don't get to watch "Undeclaired" any more - that doesn't mean it wasn't cancelled for a good reason.
Enough fans buying a game == the studio makes more. Obviously BIS wasn't that great of a game maker.
(PS - this is not a troll - just one gamer's opinion)
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
This is truly another nail in the coffin of video games development in the west (US, Canada, UK). Granted, there are still a few good ones, but maily just lifeless lawyer filled corporations like Activision, Acclaim, EA, etc. that drain creativity and punish refinement. Heck even our consoles are dying (US/Europe: Xbox, Phantom, N-Gage).
So its times like this I'm glad to be a fanboy of Japan! Sammi's taking over Sega; we got Capcom, Konami, Tecmo, Taito, Square/Enix, Sony, Bandai, Koei, etc!! And the consoles are awesome too (PS2, PSP, GBA-SP, DC, etc)!! I know I know, off topic; flame bait; but its the wave of the future we are just seeing evolution in action.
SCO: 800-726-8649
Verisign: 800-361-8319, 888-642-9675
Diebold: 800-433-VOTE (8683)
Regards,
[Name witheld for Slashdot]
What are you afraid of, Jack. C. Turlington-Smythe?
Yeah. I work for Interplay. We didn't like your letter, so I decided to leak your real name to Slashdot. That'll show you.
Anyone else wanna mess with us?
(Yeah, I'm trolling. So, I'm bored).