Recent content by Elven6

The updates say the surgeries could be ending which is good news. Get well soon Jesse!

Unity is a fantastic engine, it's always good to see "lesser known" engine tech (compared to Unreal, id, etc) get recognized by professional studios like this.

I was in a similar boat because of how Takedown was doing at the time. Regardless I'm really happy for those guys, glad I was wrong!

I'm playing through Lionheart now, I like what I've played so far. I hear the game begins to drop off after you leave Barcelona but for $3 I'd definitely recommend it so far, especially the GOG version because of the extras.

Well, I'm sold! I really hope they meet the requirement, odds are looking good though.

On the topic of publishers it would be interesting to get Fargo's thoughts on his time at Interplay where he was "the publisher" for various third parties. Does he feel he was too heavy handed, did he become what he now "hates", etc. I'm kind of surprised that no one has really touched on...

It's the end of 2013 actually. http://news.mmosite.com/content/c/2012-01-10/fallout_mmo_develop_rights_revert_back_to_bethesda.shtml

Their second project could be that original IP XBLA game Feargus Urqhart talked about last year?

That's a shame, I was really looking forward to playing it when it went free to play. For a good portion of last year I was under the impression that you couldn't play it outside of Europe since the publishing deal they had made it sound like it was exclusive to that continent until a publisher...

RIP :(

I remember there was a discussion about servers a year or so ago that Chris was involved in but I'm not sure if they said anything about player count in that discussion.

To be fair, we don't exactly know how the Fallout MMO would have been planned in regards to other players, it's possible the game could have been limited where each player sees only a set number of people, similar to Phantasy Star (technically it would still count as an MMO), and it's also...

I can see how one could work up a figure of $20 million to value R&D but whether or not it would be enough to fulfill the contract obligations, I'm not sure. An unfortunate side effect of Masthead evidence being dismissed from the case, I guess we'll never know for sure.

On the question of funding, I think we can agree that Interplay did have funding via investments in the company, whether or not they equate to $30 million is debatable of course. Unless these investments and deals (like the Masthead deal) are now void as a result of Interplay losing the brand...

Given how Interplay ended up in the end, it's safe to assume Black Isle would have likely closed anyway along with the other Interplay/Titus studios, it's the unfortunate reality of a cash strapped company. Only Van Buren's engine was close to completion (about 90% IIRC) when it was canned so we...