Bethesda Reclaiming Fallout MMO Rights

Bethesda has filed with the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission to reacquire the rights it licensed to Interplay when it bought the Fallout brand from the company. Part of that 2007 deal gave Interplay the right to create a Fallout MMO - provided that it met certain conditions. The SEC filing contends that Interplay has not met those conditions, and is therefore no longer entitled to license anything from them.

The agreement was contingent on Interplay meeting milestones: the company was to enter general production on the game within two years and raise capital to support its continued development. That never happened, despite some progress on a product codenamed Project V13 (which everyone surmised was an online Fallout game), Bethesda apparently feels that Interplay has hit the end of the road with them.

We’ll have more on this story as it develops.

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