Interplay vs. Bethesda, Continued

The Interplay vs Bethesda case over the rights of Fallout Online went to court a week ago but we have yet to hear the outcome. In the meantime, No Mutants Allowed offers some details on the claims from the two companies, noticeably that Interplay is arguing the entire contract is void due to the vagueness of the language, and Bethesda noting Interplay’s evidence for full funding is insufficient.

More interesting, Bethesda offers a stack of evidence that Interplay did not fulfill the minimum financing requirement, and rebuts Interplay’s claim on I2g’s financing as Frederic Chesnais (owner, founder and sole employee of I2G) has testified that “there is no binding agreement between Interplay and I2G to provide financing to Interplay for the Fallout MMOG” and also that I2G “considered providing no more than five or six million dollars of financing to Interplay for the Fallout MMOG”. As for Masthead’s side of the deal, Bethesda points out the court ruled that Interplay “was precluded from offering any Masthead employees as witnesses at trial” or “call any Interplay witnesses to testify about any of the work purportedly done by Masthead”.