Company News Interplay Returns to Publishing

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Tags: Interplay

<p>Interplay, winner of the <a href="http://www.rpgcodex.net/screenshot.php?file=codex2008review/rpgcodex_awards_2008_best_zombie_impression.jpg" target="_blank">"Best Zombie Impression"</a> 2008, <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103182-6-Years-Later-Interplay-Returns-to-Publishing" target="_blank">keeps on shambling</a>.</p>
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<p>This is the first time Interplay has returned to games publishing since it practically shut down in 2004, though it managed to stave off a corporate death thanks to the sale of the Fallout license to Bethesda in 2007. The company is still working on a Fallout MMO&nbsp; with Masthead Studios, though that title needs to be released before the end of 2011 or Bethesda will reclaim the rights by default.</p>
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<p>They're still alive.</p>
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<p><em>thanks Jaedar!</em></p>

 

[waywardOne]

i remember borrowing Bard's Tale 3 and never returning it. i made up for it years later by buying my brother and some friends their own copies of BG2. for some weird reason (nostalgia?), i want Interplay to survive even if it means they have to whore themselves out to MMOers to pay the bills.

 

[denizsi]

I'd pay to see Herve Caen whoring himself out. They could even make a game around that and it would sell. Butthurtitude of ex-Interplay fanbase is a profitable niche.

 

[commie]

Herve Caen is the devil.

 

[Phelot]

"Interplay Returns to Publishing"

Oh wow, they probably shouldn't

 

[xemous]

How exactly could interplay get so screwed on this. They stipulated clearly in the contract rights to produce and release a fallout MMO. Now they have had a lawsuit and a time limit imposed, on a MMO of all things.

 

[Cassidy]

How exactly could interplay get so screwed on this. They stipulated clearly in the contract rights to produce and release a fallout MMO. Now they have had a lawsuit and a time limit imposed, on a MMO of all things.

Jewnimax has more lawyers than programmers. And Herve Caen fully deserve it after selling out. This MMO would probably have the potential to be even more full of fail and canon rape than TESF V: Fallout.

 

[DragoFireheart]

The only question is can they top the pile of shit known as Fallout: Brotherhood of Shit?

 

[L'ennui]

Haters gonna hate. Much and godspeed to you, Interplay.

 

[LazyD]

Lol Bros its By gamers for Gamers Cmawn!

hating haters hatin the hateful butthurt.

 

[Tails]

Haters gonna hate. Much and godspeed to you, Interplay.

Well it's true, many awesome games was released by Interplay but don't those were different times - mainly games was still nerdy thing. Now they will just release the same level crap as other current publishers. If Interplay survive, that is.

 

[Achilles]

It just won't stay dead! So, Interplay, how about releasing the Secret of the Vulcan Fury? Hmm?

 

[jiujitsu]

Why won't they just fucking die?

 

[zeitgeist]

Why won't they just fucking die?

And this is the curse of anyone following a certain hobby or industry or any aspect of human endeavor for too long - you inevitably see horrible things that are not only comparable to, for example, Marlon Brando's movie career, but if you continue watching his grave for long enough you see his bloated corpse coming back to life, starring in a RHPS-like musical version of The Wild One, and you see entire new generations taking it absolutely seriously.

Perhaps it's caused by humans just plain having an unnaturally long lifespan nowadays, if everyone just up and died around 30-35, very few of us would wise up to this cyclical nature of things and even if we did, we'd have little time and energy to lament them.

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

It just won't stay dead! So, Interplay, how about releasing the Secret of the Vulcan Fury? Hmm?

I wonder what happened to all the voicework they had in the can for that. As I recall, it featured the final appearance of Deforrest Kelley as McCoy.