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Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Fallout License, MMO Plans

Posted by Soulskill on from the stop-slacking dept.

Bethesda Softworks has filed a complaint with the District Court of Maryland to forbid Interplay from selling older Fallout titles. The complaint alleges that Interplay failed to hold up its end of an agreement that required it to submit marketing and packaging details to Bethesda for approval. In addition to that, Interplay was supposed to initiate full-scale development of a Fallout MMO by April, 2009, gathering at least $30 million in funding to work on the game. "If Bethesda prevails, Interplay would lose the rights to develop the Fallout MMO. There is little to show for the progress of the Fallout MMO in public venues, although many speculate that a mysterious title called Project V13 is in fact the Fallout MMO."

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  1. This is some truly shocking news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Interplay still exist?!

  2. Sure it does! by denzacar · · Score: 5, Funny

    And it is crunch time!

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  3. Dude! Come on! Give it SOME credit. by denzacar · · Score: 3, Funny

    DtU featured "legendary Flame Sword of Lolth".
    Also, "With the power of this sword, an infinite army will be at your command".

    It foreshadowed the coming of the Anonymous!
    How is that not worth all those bugs, and more?

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