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Interplay returns, many sequels planned
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 10th April 2008
Interplay is back and the developer is hoping to revive a number of old franchises to help raise profits.
The company announced that, as a result of selling the Fallout 3 license to Bethesda Softworks, it had generated enough money to re-enter the market - and boy, do they have some big plans for the future!
First and foremost for the company right now is to get to work on a Fallout MMO to help raise revenue further and then plunge the money into developing sequels to established brands that are sure to sell.
Net revenues for the year ended December 31, 2007, were $6 million at Interplay, most of which was gathered from the sale of the Fallout singleplayer IP for $5.75 million.
Right now Interplay is recruiting new developers and working to become entirely in-house and self-contained. The developer is hoping to start work on sequels for the Earthworm Jim, MDK, Descent and Dark Alliance franchises in the near future.
Are you a big Interplay fan? How do you feel about the company coming back from the dead like this? Let us know in the forums.
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It's a shame they had to sell F3, but if it brings them back into the game then it was worth it in my opinion!
Maybe they could finish off Van Buren now too..
Welcome back Interplay! :)
Fallout and Descent? Niiice! I will surelly be one of the first to buy fallout MMO, and perhaps (just perhaps) leave Ultima Online.
To me FO is the only game to get close to Ultima VII.
About Descent, I think it'll cover a really good niche that is currently is (sadly) inexistent... All that developers think now is FPS!
Hmmm after all, descent is a kinda shooter too...
I cannot wait for another Earthworm Jim. I loved those games.
they aren't making it like oblivion. its a different game. They are trying to appease the hardcore fallout fans.
do any of those 3 succesfully n this company may as well be 2008 developer of the year :)
If there is one thing Oblivion was not, it's "dribble". Fallout 3 is not going to be their Elder Scrolls V. It is a different game. Everyone in that studio was a huge fan of Fallout, I trust they know how to keep it true to its original roots.
Trust you when the devs have said it is more like oblivion then fallout in recent interviews. And yes, oblivion was dribble for an RPG, I can list a full page of short comings it has as an RPG. It is Naive to think the studio that has only created open RPG's that sacrifice gameplay for big worlds is goona make a game like they never made before. The writers are not all of a suden gonna change into Troika. Them being fans is irrelevant, the devs themselves have stated it is changing more like Oblivion then the fallout games. It is also being designed for the console crowd, that alone spells doom. Bethesda long stopped listening to its fanbase. I suggest you go to the F3 forums, the game is not shaping up to be much of anything like a fallout game, ina recent inetrview, they even said it is more like Oblivion with guns, FPS view and all.
Wow... look forward to seeing the Fallout MMO.
No, they are not, where did you hear that? i suggest you read the recent interviews and go to the F3 forums, it is not looking good, but many knew this the moment a dev like bethesda got their hands on it. The only thing they are trying hard to replicate is the post apocalyptic graphics, any dev can do that, gameplay not so much.
I would pre-order a copy of FreeSpace 3 right now... been waiting a decade for that game!
Thinking about it, if you took Interplay -developed/published games away, you would probably remove in one stroke 80% of the games over the years I consider my all-time favourites.. And if you included Black Isle, you'd have the lot ;)
(excepting Deus Ex)
A new Freespace game would be awesome, especially with the lack of good space shooters we have right now.
Like... none you mean? Does anyone know if there are any out now worth playing?
Fans? ha... Almost none of the people working on Fallout 3 had any experience with anything Fallout whatsoever prior to starting on Fallout 3
Yeah Oblivion sure was dribble and I am doubtful that Fallout 3 will be any better, more the worse.
Anyway Interplay, no Black Isle Studios = No Sale for me
Yep.
boy... that sure brings back some memories..... like some "friend" of mine who borrowed my cd-rom and never returned it!
Yes the game Babylon 5: Ive found her. Not a new game, but does have a FULL newtonian physics engine which is good fun. I have also been getting back into Freelancer :)
But Descent, Freespace 3 yes please
Kimbie
MDK 3 would be good.
I kinda missed the early descent's and 3 wasn't so hot, but I like the idea and enjoyed that one by that other company that ripped it off, as far as I played it back then anyway ;P
A Freespace sequel would be good too.
Descent 3 was also my first non-RPG to require more then one disk to install.
http://www.moddb.com/games/6596/bsg-beyond-the-red-line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD9kY_8rEFM
It is a Battlestar Galactica conversion. It is pretty decent.
I have been part of the FS2-Open SCP for a long time now, and would buy FS3 instantly, even if it was crap. (and if it was I'd mod the heck out of it ;) )
I played all of the older games too: Another world, Bards tale, Baldurs gate, Dungeon Master, Freespace, alone in the dark, Dragon lore, Future Wars (one of my favo adventures of all time besides SpaceQuest3). all under the Interplay flag.
Awesome stuff
ok, Interplay. start working. now.
hell yeah ! That game was amazing on the PSX back in the days ! :D