Fallout

Bethesda/Interplay Preliminary Injunction Hearing Detailed

No Mutants Allowed got its hands on several of the court documents concerning the preliminary injunction hearing, and sums up a goodly part of Interplay’s arguments for us. It includes some interesting claims on the current state of Fallout Online. When…

Bethesda/Interplay Lawsuit Filings Detailed

This is essentially a repeat of our earlier news on Interplay’s court filings, but with the added bonus of having significantly less bias to filter through, as Interplay has now summed up its court filings in a recent 8-K filing.…

Bethesda/Interplay Lawsuit Filings Detailed

Interplay stockholder frymuchan has posted on the Raging Bull Stockholder forum summarizing the court filings done by Interplay in response to Bethesda’s suit. Of interest is that Interplay does not agree that their contract with Bethesda did not allow them…

Tim Cain Interview

The MMO Gamer had the opportunity to conduct a lengthy interview with RPG veteran Tim Cain about the unnamed MMORPG he’s currently working on at Carbine Studios, as well as the stellar games he’s worked on over the years. A sampling:…

Chris Avellone: General Design Questions, Part One

Veteran RPG designer Chris Avellone took a moment out of his busy day to answer quite a few fan-submitted design questions on the company’s blog system. Part one includes nine questions, the second of which I’ll quote below: 2. Do…

The History and Review of the Fallout Series, Part One

The first half of Media Consumes Me’s fairly elaborate history of the Fallout series is online, which takes us on a quick journey from Electronic Arts’ Wasteland to Interplay’s much-despised Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. What made Fallout unique for it’s…

Further Details on Bethesda/Interplay Lawsuit Surface

Ausir from The Vault stopped by our forums to point out that Bethesda has technically filed two lawsuits against Interplay. The second one is over Interplay’s decision to sell Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics on Good Old Games, Steam, and…

Taking a Tablet PC to Retro Role-Playing Nirvana

After stumbling upon the fan-made high resolution mods for the Infinity Engine series and early Fallout titles, Ars Technica tells us just how entertaining these role-playing games can be on a modern tablet PC. Like many thirty-something gamers, I don’t…

Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics Get Steamed

Interplay has teamed up with Valve to release Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, and the full Fallout collection on Steam. Beginning today, Interplay titles including the original Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Sacrifice and Kingpin will become available for purchase…

Obsidian Entertainment Interview

Feargus Urquhart is one of the most prominent figures in the role-playing video game business, having spent the last 18 years of his life contributing to it.  We’ve chatted with many of Feargus’ colleagues over the years, but never to…