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Interplay Forced to Liquidate (France)

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the end-has-come-for-thee dept.

genrader writes "Voodoo Extreme is reporting that Interplay has had judicial liquidation take place. If you've been reading the gaming news, a lot has been going on with Interplay financially, it seems all this finally caught up to them. Interplay has formerly published very well known games like Icewind Dale, the Baldur's Gate series, and Descent. Farewell, Interplay." Update: 01/06 02:57 GMT by H : This affects just the company in France; sorry for the confusion.

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  1. Interplay is dead and gone... by kjones692 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    However, my question to you, the readers of slashdot, is...

    How do you think they could have avoided this?

    Discuss.

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  2. Out of this World by eMartin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...published very well known games like Icewind Dale, the Baldur's Gate series, and Descent. Farewell, Interplay.

    There was also a not so well known game called "Out of this World" which is still one of my favorite games. I just played through it again a few weeks ago.

    http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,5 64 /

  3. Interplay online store is down by astebbin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This may or may not be related to the current topic, but I've just bee to the Interplay online store which appears to be down and unable to complete transactions at this time. Is this a result of the stated legal action?

    Link: http://www.interplay-store.com/

  4. What I'm interested in.... by Satertek · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...is what they will do with the Freespace license.
    (Its been discussed here before.

  5. Descent rocked by nighty5 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My best memories of Interplay would be playing Descent. That game absolutely rocked, it was one of the first games that convinced me to buy a joystick - no other game had succedded earlier.

    I remember even having problems configuring the joystick, took me days to work out to manually set a jumper on my sound card to enable the joystick port.

    Did anybody like me actually edit any maps? The map editing made doom editing feel like playing with playdough. I remember printing out the manual which was enormous and was written by a russian but decided to write it in english because of the bigger audience.

    I remember some people suffered motion sickness more in this game than any other.

  6. d2x by slapout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The sources to Descent 1 & 2 were released several years ago. The Descent 2 code is being worked on in a project called d2x. http://www.icculus.org/d2x/ I'm trying to find a copy of Descent 2 so I can use the data files with it. Does anyone know if it's still available? I've googled for the shareware version, but couldn't find much. (I found it at descent2.com but i couldn't get the download to finish.)

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    1. Re:d2x by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Try Ebay or dollar stores. Sometimes they have oddball software closeouts.

      A Deal$ (it's a dollar store chain) store near me recently had D2 in stock and I picked up enough copies to do legal multiplayer on my lan. But nobody else knows how to play the game. Pooh.

      But it was a buck a copy. No huge loss. I remember playing the game back when I had a 486SX so I have to say it was something of a thrill to play it again on a modern PC. The framerates, the motion sickness! The MIDI! Holy cow!

      OK, so the MIDI doesn't work right with XP. Other than that...

  7. Surprised Descent is not on there by Solr_Flare · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All those are big ones for sure, but the Descent series(not to be confused with the Freespace series) equally deserves to be in the top 10. That series had a lot of FPS firsts. I have yet to find a FPS quite like it since the license got shelved when Outrage and Volition(formally the two companies were Parallax) moved to THQ thus putting the Descent(and Freespace) license into Limbo. :(

    Both Freespace and Descent are games that truly deserve sequels as both series were excellent. I personally put Descent 1/2/3 right up at the top of my favorite FPS of all time along with Half Life and some others.

    I have fond memories of played Doom 2, Descent 1, Descent 2, and Duke 3D over Kali back in the starting days of modern "internet gaming". Back when we had to convert those darned IPX packets :)

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  8. Re:buy gold, or euro , better than DOW30 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My understanding is countries are moving away from holding the US Dollar in reserve. Apparently some have been replacing the USD with Euros.

    People in America barely understand the us economy. What makes you think europeans/asians understand it any better?

    They aren't subject to the american media? :) FYI, I'm not european or asian.

  9. descent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    RIP descent. one of the best games/series of games EVER. I will probably cry myself to sleep tonight about how they arent doing any more descent stuff.

    Some fans tried to make their own "descent 4" but they were sued by interplay. (fux0r)