Fallout Licence Fully Owned By Bethesda

This was big news on Friday. Bethesda (the creators of Elder Scrolls) have purchased the Fallout franchise from Interplay. Previously, Bethesda had purchased the licence to develop the next three fallout games from Interplay. Interplay, of course, are practically going out of business.

While there was a mixed reception at the news of Bethesda developing the next three fallout games several years ago, I think that this is fantastic news for the franchise. The main concerns of the community, at the time, was that Bethesda would turn fallout in to a first person RPG. This created the luke warm reception as the rumour mill went crazy about reports of this misinformation.

It is 10 years, next year, since the release of Fallout 2. This is a long time between gaming drinks. It is good that Fallout still has such a strong following within the gaming community after such a long period of time.