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Interplay Not Content With Fallout Court Case



Just yesterday we reported that Interplay successfully defended its rights to publish the Fallout Trilogy bundle and continue development on Project V13, a Fallout MMO. Today Interplay has issued a statement claiming that they are displeased with the Bethesda’s interference with their business and are pursuing counter-claims.

Interplay believes they were wronged by Bethesda’s interloping with the Fallout franchise, claiming that the company breached their contract. Supposedly Bethesda propositioned the games in the Fallout Trilogy to other publishers, telling them Interplay didn’t have the license. Shady business if it’s true.

In the statement, Interplay says they will continue to “defend its rights and pursue its Counter-Claims against Bethesda, including its claims for Breach of Contract, Tortious Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage, Rescission, Accounting and Declaratory Relief seeking an award of damages and other relief."

Just when we thought it was all over, a second battle sparks. If this were a street brawl, this would be the part where one thug wrestles the nail-bat away from the other and readies for retaliation.

Any of you taking sides?

[Via Joystiq]

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Comments
  • i don't care about their scuffles! SETTLE YOUR DIFFERENCES AND MAKE ME SOME MORE GAMES!!

  • This is gonna get ugly.

  • fallout 3 is like a buffet & the buffet only has stuffing ! the stuffing is good but after a while you can not eat anymore .

    after playing fallout 3 & all the add on's i do not care if another fallout ever comes out . So i realy do not care about the legal matters LOL. great game , but no sequals for fallout please

  • Oh. Dear. God.

  • I believe Phonenix Wright: Ace Attorney should handle this

  • Somebody call the Waaaaaaaaaambulance!

  • I want interplay to biff it.  They were good at making games in the 90's.  I'd like to believe that they have gotten a bit rusty at their craft.

  • This sucks because we (the gamers) lose out when companies dispute over licenses and copyrights. Who would want to develop another entry in the Fallout series with all the red tape this case has created.

    I'll be keeping an eye on Bethesda: they made Elder Scrolls IV and Fallout 3 - two of the best games of this generation and genre. I bet they'll continue making great games with or without the Fallout franchise.

  • I dont understand why there people have to complain..... just because you made the 2 crappy fallout( Not really just making a statement that effects them harshly) and then someone comes around and makes a better version doesnt mean you have to get all mad when they sue you because you sucks. Now that you have won and still being sucky you gotta cry about it some more. WTF. If their the reason i wont play a new Elder Scrolls because Bethesda was too concentrated on all your *** counter suing im going to get angry.......maybe over 9000.

  • I go with Bethesda. I mean, i have never even heard of interplay, and bethesda has come out with some of the best (and fairly long) games ever.

  • What i dont understand is Bethesda bought the rights to the Fallout name all but the MMO. Why did they sue in the first place when they knew they were going to lose? Only thing i can think of ( As a Gamer) is that this MMO will contradict anything Fallout 4 as in its storyline and they didnt want interplay to mess with it.

    You cant mess with a RP company's storyline....they get angry.

  • Interplay suxors, and they are butthurt. Now they are greedy as well, and they should definitely lose. They should've lost when they couldn't provide a game on time. If they can't finish a game by a deadline, then they shouldn't be making games at all (i.e. duke nukem).

  • This is going to go on for another 10 years isn't it?

  • Interplay should just let it go.  

  • I thought that all of this would be covered when Bethesda bought the IP?

  • agreed christian; what good can come from this on either side.

  • Wow now they are just looking like dicks. They probably need money to create their so called "New MMO" cause they don't have much money. They haven't created much of anything to have a good steady income coming in. All the money that there getting is from old games the made back in the 90s so they are going hard after Bethesda cause they know they have money and they want it. Bethesda only asked if they could have the license to the fallout name and interplay gave it to them, there was no "interference with their business" cause they have no or much of a business to begin with. They are just mad that they were not involved with Fallout 3 and the money that Bethesda made (which was their fault), which might have brought them back to the game industry. there mmo is going to to either 1. look like it came from the 90s and most kids now a days "if it don't have good graphics it sucks" or its just going to suck period cause they don't have the money to make it good to today standards

  • i love fallout 3 like crazy so i hope bethesda gets to keep making fallout games, i never played the first 2 so i cant say anything about them but i doubt they are as good as fallout 3

  • Why would Bethesda do that, anyway?

    How much money have they made off of Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series?

    They have no need to do this.

    Guess we just have to wait and see how all this pans out...

  • ill side with berthesda on the second case here even though i hate how they make their games. interplay gave them the rights to make and publish fallout 3 but *** seriously the orginal fallouts were good but most ppl allredy have a copy or riped it illegaly or played it and left it collecting dust on the shelf

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