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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."
Fallout 2 had a terrible, terrible bug that prevented folks from progressing past a certain point. Worse yet, the patch didn't work with your save games, so all of your progress was history if you applied it (but you had to).
The same kinds of problems (times ten) happened with Arcanuum, which had a lot of Fallout developers on the team. Great games, but their lack of bugs is not something I could praise with a straight face.