Company News Codex Scoop: Brian Fargo has trademarked cancelled time travel RPG Meantime...and also Van Buren?!

[himmy]

Is Meantime really something that's known outside of this forum? It's no Wasteland, and even its Kickstarter had to lean heavily on the Fallout brand.

Cue Kickstarter video of Fargo walking slowly and explaining, while pointing every word with a gesture, how this is the RPG they meant to make in the 80s, and its time has now come, followed by a few mega-interviews with magazines during the campaign and people will be interested.

Not that many people knew about the original Wasteland either.

 

[naossano]

This must be a trick.
Obviously, InXile are devellopping the next TES for Bethesda, so they can focus on Fallout 4 and an Arcanum sequel.

 

[Ramireza]

And also in Germany :

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/fallout/news/inxile_entertainment,35755,3081121.html

and :

http://www.gamersglobal.de/news/93778/geruechte-zum-neuen-rpg-von-inxile-entertainment

 

[Goral]

Is Meantime really something that's known outside of this forum? It's no Wasteland, and even its Kickstarter had to lean heavily on the Fallout brand. Although Meantime still makes more sense than Van Buren (the codename of a game in a franchise now owned by Bethesda). (...).

That's why he will call his next game Van Buren not "Meantime". While most people haven't heard about this game, quite a few heard about Van Buren. Van Buren has even it's own paragraph in the Fallout 3 article on Wikipedia. Besides the name everything will be different but throughout the internet people will remind other people this name's association with Fallout which will surely enrage Bethesda (but there will be nothing they can do about it).

 

[Klarion]

Is Meantime really something that's known outside of this forum? It's no Wasteland, and even its Kickstarter had to lean heavily on the Fallout brand. Although Meantime still makes more sense than Van Buren (the codename of a game in a franchise now owned by Bethesda). (...).

That's why he will call his next game Van Buren not "Meantime". While most people haven't heard about this game, quite a few heard about Van Buren. Van Buren has even it's own paragraph in the Fallout 3 article on Wikipedia. Besides the name everything will be different but throughout the internet people will remind other people this name's association with Fallout which will surely enrage Bethesda (but there will be nothing they can do about it).

This is the most possible, most realistic theory so far...

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

People still get excited over InXile after Wasteland 2?

Yes.

 

[Darkzone]

Perhaps inXile will make a Wasteland the lone Ranger: Van Buren game? Or a Torment: Meantime?

 

[naossano]

Does the life of president Van Buren interesting enough for an RPG ?

 

[Melcar]

Anything makes an interesting RPG.

 

[GloomFrost]

Van Buren you say. Not bad. Not bad at all.

 

[himmy]

Infinitron or whoever else is in the know: Was there any significant surge in traffic to the Codex or its Twitter account, following the mentions in the media? Especially since some directly linked to the Twitter account or the post itself.

 

[Infinitron]

Infinitron or whoever else is in the know: Was there any significant surge in traffic to the Codex or its Twitter account, following the mentions in the media? Especially since some directly linked to the Twitter account or the post itself.

Ask Crooked Bee and DarkUnderlord.

 

[Viata]

Anything makes an interesting RPG.

Yet most people do rpg with fantasy setting.

 

[Gondolin]

Yet most people do rpg with fantasy setting.

Google the wise words: "The videogame industry does not exist to be creative. It exists to sell products at Walmart."

 

[Jaesun]

Does the life of president Van Buren interesting enough for an RPG ?

What does one life matter?

 

[Zombra]

Is Meantime really something that's known outside of this forum?

FWIW, I knew about it before I started hanging out here last year.

 

[Dreed]

Codex also credited in shit mainstream French website:

http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/410634/inxile-s-offre-meantime-et-van-buren.htm

 

[sser]

Is Meantime really something that's known outside of this forum?

FWIW, I knew about it before I started hanging out here last year.

 

[Zdzisiu]

http://www.gry-online.pl/S013.asp?ID=89336

Major potato gaming website. Of course they dont mention Codex or link to us, but they are retarded mainstream faggots anyway so maybe its better this way.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

 

[supervoid]

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Is Meantime really something that's known outside of this forum?

FWIW, I knew about it before I started hanging out here last year.

I knew about it before the game was even conceived!

 

[Melcar]

I knew about it from your mom.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Some more gaming sites spread the word, mostly crediting us. We are now a respected gaming news source:

Wie die englischsprachige Webseite rpgcodex.net nämlich herausgefunden hat, beantragte inXile Entertainment offenbar über ein Drittunternehmen Markenschutz für den Begriff »Van Buren«. Dabei handelt es sich um den Arbeitstitel eines isometrischen Sequels zu Fallout 2 , das sich eine Zeit lang bei Interplay in Arbeit befand, jedoch weit vor seiner Veröffentlichung eingestellt wurde

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/fallout/news/inxile_entertainment,35755,3081121.html

Az RPG Codex felfedezte, hogy az inXile Entertainment levédetett két új játéknevet. Az egyik a Meantime, a második pedig a talán sokaknak ismerősen csengő Van Buren

http://criticalhit.hu/2014/12/08/inxile-levedetesek-meantime-es-van-buren/

A quanto riportato da RPG Codex, la compagnia ha registrato due nuovi marchi, Meantime e Van Buren. Entrambi siano stati inseriti sotto la voce "Roxy Friday", di proprietà del CEO di Inxile, Brian Fargo.

http://www.gamereactor.it/news/152424/Inxile+registra+i+marchi+Meantime+e+Van+Buren/

Si l'éventualité la plus probable semblait être celle d'une résurrection de The Bard's Tale, RPG Codex a levé deux lièvres qui changent considérablement la donne. Le site a ainsi fait deux découvertes en fouillant dans les dépôts de marques. La société Roxy Friday a réservé en octobre et en novembre les marques Meantime et Van Buren. Or, Roxy Friday est une mini-société appartenant à Brian Fargo, patron d'InXile qui avait déjà utilisé cet écran de fumée pour déposer la marque Torment, avant de lancer le Kickstarter de Torment : Tides of Numenera.

http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/410634/inxile-s-offre-meantime-et-van-buren.htm

Redaktorzy RPG Codex wypatrzyli wczoraj dosyć niespodziewanie, że studio inXile wypełniło stosowne papiery i zarezerwowało na własność nazwę Van Buren. Nie chciałbym rozpalać zawczasu nadziei, ale przypomnę tylko, że jest to ekipa odpowiedzialna za Wasteland 2. Częścią tego zespołu jest także Brian Fargo, czyli jeden z twórców oryginalnego Fallouta. Co ciekawe zaczepiony na twitterze przez redaktorów RPG Codex wcale nie zaprzeczył doniesieniom.

http://gamezilla.komputerswiat.pl/newsy/2014/50/studio-inxile-zarezerwowalo-nazwe-van-buren

Eingereicht wurden die Anträge auf Markenschutz von Roxy Friday, einem Unternehmen das ebenfalls Brian Fargo besitzt und über das bereits die Rechte an Torment: Tides of Numenara geschützt wurden. Entdeckt wurden die entsprechende Einträge von RPG Codex, deren Echtheit Fargo anschließend bestätigte.

http://www.computerbase.de/2014-12/inxile-sichert-sich-rechte-an-meantime-und-van-buren/

 

[Viata]

Seems like only America hates rpgcodex enough to not give credits.