Fallout 3 is dead :(

[Imran Siddiqui]

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=45846

More bad news at Black Isle Studios, where lead designer J.E. Sawyer resigned just last month (story), as Farewell, but not goodbye on the Interplay Entertainment Forums (thanks Nels Nelson) is a post from Damien "Puuk" Foletto that indicates that the studio is now shut down, referring to today as his "last day at the (former) BIS." This follows suit with a note sent along by designer John Deiley:

Today marks the end of an era. Black Isle Studios is no more. In yet another sweeping layoff of employees, Interplay has officially let go the last of it's Black Isle employees (save two that I know of) and dissolved the division. Also, the non-announced title that the division was working on, Fallout 3, has been "shelved" to quote management.

That sucks .

[Tis I]

wow

[Jamski]

*Whispers* - another thread beat you to it mate.

It sucks doesn't it.

-Jam

[Dis]

this deserves another

[Kassiopeia]

Interplay has the rights to the game. If the BI guys hop on to, say, Troika, Interplay could contract them to finish the game... don't think it's likely though, but there's always a possibility. Certainly even Interplay's marketroids realise the potential. Then again, with DX:IW, I'm seriously starting to lose my faith in sequels.

[Lemmy]

[Az]

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Interplay has the rights to the game. If the BI guys hop on to, say, Troika, Interplay could contract them to finish the game... don't think it's likely though, but there's always a possibility. Certainly even Interplay's marketroids realise the potential. Then again, with DX:IW, I'm seriously starting to lose my faith in sequels.

see the other thread - The BI guys are at a startup called obsidian, and are working on a new project with Bioware. Doesnt seem like theyre working with Interplay though.

[Alex]

sorry, Imran...

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103632

[Alex]

i have to admit, though, that the subject in your thread is much more clear than mine...

[asleepathewheel]

better dead than released as a pos. I'm looking at you MoO3.

[Az]

It will be made, since it is an amazing title. This simply means it'll be made in a decade or so.

[Grumbold]

Dunno, they plot it and kill it with appalling regularity. All that work building a new engine (Jefferson) and now Van Buren completely wasted so that they can finance a couple more crap console games. Give it a year and all that work will have to be repeated from scratch. Bah. I hope IPLY suits have permanent indigestion. They deserve it

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Grumbold
Dunno, they plot it and kill it with appalling regularity. All that work building a new engine (Jefferson) and now Van Buren completely wasted so that they can finance a couple more crap console games. Give it a year and all that work will have to be repeated from scratch. Bah. I hope IPLY suits have permanent indigestion. They deserve it

they sank Van Buren? Maybe they should call the console games Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.

[Imran Siddiqui]

All that work building a new engine (Jefferson) and now Van Buren completely wasted so that they can finance a couple more crap console games.

Damn console games... they can't hold a candle to Fallout!