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More on Black Isle on IGN (thanks Frans) has further details on the closure of Black Isle Studios (story) from an unnamed former member of the studio. Here's a bit recapping how quickly things can change in the world of game development:

By Black Isle's account, the demo as delivered was 95% done, including all game functionality but only one finished demo level. (Work on the rest of the levels was approximately halfway complete; all that remained to be done was to populate and script the maps.) The next day Interplay began laying off people at Digital Mayhem. Since the Fallout demo was so polished, employees at Black Isle felt (relatively) secure.

Two weeks later, all but two members of the Fallout team were laid off and the project was cancelled. Interplay apparently believed the game could not be finished by 2004. Interestingly, the two members of the team not laid off were those who were previously working for the head of Digital Mayhem on a separate console title prior to moving to Black Isle Studios.

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Re: RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Dec 16, 2003, 23:57

Scottish Martial Arts

Son of a Bitch! Reading that article changes my feelings from that of loss to outright anger. If Fallout 3 was as far along in development as the article seems to indicate there is no rhyme or reason to IPLY's decision to can Fallout 3 in favor of a sequel to an unshipped game. While FOBOS's announcement had angered me, I had secretly hoped it would do well and keep IPLY afloat long enough to make a true Fallout sequel. Now I can only hope FOBOS crashes, burns and takes the undead corpse of IPLY with it.

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