Interplay resurrecting Fallout 3?
CEO Herve Caen says his company will publish the post-nuclear RPG, hints it is farming out development.
Following yesterday's conference call with investors, Interlay CEO Herve Caen casually dropped a bombshell. "We're planning to publish Fallout 3," he bluntly told an analyst inquiring about the PC role-playing game sequel.
The news came as a shock, given that the game community had all but dug Fallout 3's plot in the game graveyard. The bad news started last year, when a series of prominent developers, including Feargus Urquhart and J.E. Sawyer, left Fallout 3's developer, Black Isle Studios.
The departures sparked rumors of problems behind the scenes at Black Isle, Interplay's internal role-playing game studio. One of its premiere projects, Baldur's Gate 3 (codenamed: "Jefferson") was put on indefinite hold following Interplay's loss of the Dungeons and Dragons license to Atari.
That left Fallout 3, the next chapter in one of the most widely admired RPG series of all time, as Black Isle's sole project. However, in November, Interplay shut down Black Isle, and sending its entire staff packing. With no-one working on Fallout 3 and its dismissed developers spitting venom, the industry assumed the game it was dead in the water. That is, until today.
Though Caen was uncharacteristically direct about Fallout 3's publishing plans, he was less so about its development. "Fallout 3 is not actively being developed right now," he said, "but will we have an announcement on that front soon regarding that project."
Later in the session, Caen gave a hit about that announcement may be. When an analyst asked if it was most likely that Fallout 3 would developed by an external studio, Caen answered, "correct."
By Tor Thorsen -- GameSpot
POSTED: 04/15/04 02:57PM PST
CEO Herve Caen says his company will publish the post-nuclear RPG, hints it is farming out development.
Following yesterday's conference call with investors, Interlay CEO Herve Caen casually dropped a bombshell. "We're planning to publish Fallout 3," he bluntly told an analyst inquiring about the PC role-playing game sequel.
The news came as a shock, given that the game community had all but dug Fallout 3's plot in the game graveyard. The bad news started last year, when a series of prominent developers, including Feargus Urquhart and J.E. Sawyer, left Fallout 3's developer, Black Isle Studios.
The departures sparked rumors of problems behind the scenes at Black Isle, Interplay's internal role-playing game studio. One of its premiere projects, Baldur's Gate 3 (codenamed: "Jefferson") was put on indefinite hold following Interplay's loss of the Dungeons and Dragons license to Atari.
That left Fallout 3, the next chapter in one of the most widely admired RPG series of all time, as Black Isle's sole project. However, in November, Interplay shut down Black Isle, and sending its entire staff packing. With no-one working on Fallout 3 and its dismissed developers spitting venom, the industry assumed the game it was dead in the water. That is, until today.
Though Caen was uncharacteristically direct about Fallout 3's publishing plans, he was less so about its development. "Fallout 3 is not actively being developed right now," he said, "but will we have an announcement on that front soon regarding that project."
Later in the session, Caen gave a hit about that announcement may be. When an analyst asked if it was most likely that Fallout 3 would developed by an external studio, Caen answered, "correct."
By Tor Thorsen -- GameSpot
POSTED: 04/15/04 02:57PM PST
