Fallout MMO legal wrangles fall in favour of Interplay - for now
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
Every Friday
GamesRadar+
Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.
Every Thursday
GTA 6 O'clock
Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.
Every Friday
Knowledge
From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.
Every Thursday
The Setup
Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.
Every Wednesday
Switch 2 Spotlight
Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.
Every Saturday
The Watchlist
Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.
Once a month
SFX
Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!
Interplay's Fallout MMO has scored another small victory against Bethesda, who are trying to stop the post-apocalyptic multiplayer title getting off the ground, according to CVG .
Bethesda wanted a preliminary injunction against the MMO, which would stop Interplay's continuing development of the title. However, the United States Court of Appeals has denied the move.
Bethesda bought the Fallout series from Interplay in 2007, on the condition that Interplay would be able to develop an MMO. Interplay published the first two Fallout titles way back at the beginning of time, and Bethesda developed and published Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
Bethesda's been attempting to gauss rifle Interplay into the ground over rights to the MMO, with Bethesda asserting that Interplay has only licensed one asset from the Fallout franchise - its name. However, this was dismissed by Interplay as “absurd.”
The case is likely to keep on going like some kind of indestructible sad Ghoul. With Interplay running desparately low on funds , it had better end soon though.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

