Interplay is financially on the up and looking to get moving with a long-discussed Fallout MMO, according to a statement from its CEO, Herve Caen.
"I am pleased with the progress the company has made, particularly with our debt load, which has improved from $59 million (£29.7 million) in December 2001 to less than $3 million (£1.5 million) today", said Caen.
"With that difficult period behind us, we are focused on securing funding for development of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) based on the popular Fallout franchise. Along with our strategy of leveraging our existing portfolio of intellectual gaming properties, Fallout Online will play a key role in the future of Interplay."
Interplay has retained the rights to do an online version of Fallout ever since it first franchised the rights to Fallout 3 to Bethesda back in 2004. After a lot of inaction, SPOnG is mighty pleased to see that the MMO is finally gathering some steam.
Earlier in the year Interplay went the whole hog and sold the Fallout intellectual property outright to Oblivion creator, Bethesda, for a cool $5.75 million (£2.89 million). Interplay has since obtained the license for an online Fallout game, reversing the previous licensor/licensee relationship between the two companies.
You can find out more about Bethesda's Fallout 3 on SPOnG's dedicated game page.
"I am pleased with the progress the company has made, particularly with our debt load, which has improved from $59 million (£29.7 million) in December 2001 to less than $3 million (£1.5 million) today", said Caen.
"With that difficult period behind us, we are focused on securing funding for development of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) based on the popular Fallout franchise. Along with our strategy of leveraging our existing portfolio of intellectual gaming properties, Fallout Online will play a key role in the future of Interplay."
Interplay has retained the rights to do an online version of Fallout ever since it first franchised the rights to Fallout 3 to Bethesda back in 2004. After a lot of inaction, SPOnG is mighty pleased to see that the MMO is finally gathering some steam.
Earlier in the year Interplay went the whole hog and sold the Fallout intellectual property outright to Oblivion creator, Bethesda, for a cool $5.75 million (£2.89 million). Interplay has since obtained the license for an online Fallout game, reversing the previous licensor/licensee relationship between the two companies.
You can find out more about Bethesda's Fallout 3 on SPOnG's dedicated game page.
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