Interplay On Verge Of Bankruptcy? 50
EvilDonut writes "According to Gamesindustry.biz, long-time publisher Interplay is facing possible bankruptcy. Apparently, the company is three months behind in rent, owes almost $280,000 in a mix of outstanding payroll taxes and non-payment penalties for those taxes, and failed to meet its payroll obligations in the middle of this month. Heavy stuff." The piece also notes that, following "the asset-stripping antics of parent company Titus", the company has "lost the rights to publish Baldur's Gate 3 and other future D&D properties, and it may lose the right to continue publishing its Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance titles if it cannot settle a lawsuit from Atari which accuses it of failing to pay royalties on the D&D license." We've previously covered Black Isle's de facto demise, another key part of Interplay's woes.
An example to others (Score:5, Insightful)
Let it be a lesson to the other publishers.. when you publish crap, you go to crap.
Interplay effectively dead for a while now (Score:4, Insightful)
If a company can't continue to publish new titles based on one of its own self-developed intellectual assets, you know its just about done.
Re:Now we watch and see... (Score:3, Insightful)
Heh. (Score:2, Insightful)
Descent is what MADE Interplay what it is today (Score:4, Insightful)
Did Interplay even publish Freespace and Freespace 2? I never played Freespace 2, but I was a Freespace fan and it was a good game too.
If Interplay wants to save themselves, they need to talk someone into, namely Volition or whatever the other split of Parallax software was, to try and develop a good Descent IV and maybe another Freespace game? Those were great, and I think that's the entire reason Interplay ever became as well-known as they are.
More and more PC-game companies fold ... (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe a solution is to release games on X-Box or other console, and then on the PC? BioWare has done this with KOTOR, and they just might be onto something here