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Bethesda Licenses Fallout Franchise, To Make Fallout 3
An anonymous reader writes "According to an official press release, Bethesda will now develop and publish a brand-new version of Fallout 3, after the company 'licensed the rights to the Fallout [videogame] franchise from Interplay... with the option to develop and publish additional sequels.' Interplay, who is presumably licensing out its IP due to recent financial difficulties, is keeping the rights to its theoretical Fallout MMO concept, however, and this new attempt at Fallout 3 from the Morrowind developers doesn't look to be using code/assets from the previously half-completed Black Isle version."
Interplay has had some really nasty financial troubles in the last year as well as coming up with a wacky idea to create a Fallout MMORPG.
It's not certain that Fallout 3 is the same as this MMORPG. In fact, I'd seriously doubt it given Bethesda Software's past games. More likely it'll be a fairly open Morrowind-style game, though that's a big guess on my part.
Finally, if Interplay does go under and the Fallout license is sold, this doesn't bode well for future plans. The next license holder may not share Bethesda Software's vision of what a Fallout game is. I think this is far from a sure thing.
This is the funniest thing I've ever read on /.
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I think this is some the greatest news I have heard in a while concerning games.