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Bethesda Secures Fallout MMO Rights from Interplay

Posted on Tuesday, January 10 @ 09:38:05 Eastern by

The long, arduous legal battle between Bethesda and Interplay has finally been settled. All rights to develop a Fallout MMO has reverted back to Bethesda, though Interplay will be allowed to sell Fallout Tactics, Fallout, and Fallout 2 for PC through to December 2013 at which their merchandising rights will expire. Interplay has also been given $2 million as consideration in the settlement.

Interplay was initially assigned and given Fallout trademark rights by Bethesda in April 2007 to create a Fallout MMO, along with $30 million to complete the game. Full scale development for the title was meant to occur in April 2009, but Bethesda allegs that Interplay "failed to meet either condition of the license back agreement but refused to relinquish its license and insisted it would develop a Fallout MMO".

In particular, Interplay had engaged Masthead Studios to create the Fallout MMO but didn't seek Bethesda's approval before doing so. This lack of communication turned the relationship sour. So to prevent Interplay from creating the game, Bethesda promptly sued Interplay to declare the license void.

Robert Altman, Chairman and CEO of ZeniMax, is legal sidequest (so to speak) is over:

While we strongly believe in the merits of our suits, we are pleased to avoid the distraction and expense of litigation while completely resolving all claims to the Fallout IP. Fallout is an important property of ZeniMax and we are now able to develop future Fallout titles for our fans without third party involvement or the overhang of others' legal claims.
Related Games:   Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas
Tags:   Bethesda, Fallout


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  • GuerillaMatzilla
    GuerillaMatzilla
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jan 10th, 2012 at 9:44 am
    Bethesda has the game engine to use but I always loved the story writing from Interplay's side. Even the lore from Van Buren (mmo project not completed) is entertaining to read.
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  • graniteoctopus
    graniteoctopus
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jan 10th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
    Keep in mind though interplay merely acted as publisher to those titles. It was Black Isle who did the writing, and most of those guys are now at Obsidian. Also keep in mind Interplay made Brotherhood of Steel for the PS2 and XBOX. *shudder*

    Really as much as I disagree with some of the decisions made on Fallout 3, Bethesda are doing much better for the franchise than Interplay would. Bethesda were even cool enough to let Obisidan make a fallout game that was much closer in vision to the originals than their own effort. Had they not bought the license off interplay fallout would probably be deader than the radiation infested wasteland.
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