Bethesda Pursues Fallout MMO Rights

Fallout 3 creator Bethesda has filed with the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission in an effort to reacquire the rights to create an MMO based on the post-apocalyptic world, reports series fan site No Mutants Allowed.

Currently, original Fallout publisher Interplay holds the rights to create the online game. Interplay sold the rights to the Fallout series to Bethesda in 2007 during a period of legal troubles, but licensed the rights to craft an MMO based on the series.

That agreement hinged on the idea that the MMO would have entered general production within two years. Despite progress presumably being made on Interplay's "Project V13" -- a game widely believed (but never confirmed) to be a Fallout MMO -- Bethesda's filing indicates that the firm doesn't feel Interplay has much claim to the rights anymore.

Ultimately, unless you're an employee of either Interplay or Bethesda, what this means is we will be waiting even longer for any sort of Fallout-based online world.

At this point I expect most Fallout fans couldn't care less who creates the MMO, just that we get to play it sometime this millennia.

Image courtesy Bethesda

U.S. SEC Form 10-K [U.S. SEC, via No Mutants Allowed]

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