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Black Isle Studios Website has popped up, sporting an image stating: "Our goal has always been to make the word's best RPGs. Black Isle Studios is back." The idea that the studio behind
Fallout and
Planescape: Torment is returning is certainly appealing, but of course almost eight years has passed since
Interplay shut the studio down, and true to that,
Kotaku notes
a tweet by former Black Isle mainstay Chris Avellone confirms that Interplay is getting the band back together in name only: "I know nothing about the Black Isle Studio news announcement, doesn't involve me or Obsidian... or well, anyone that I know. ;)"
NeoGAF points out the revived company's
Facebook Page and
Twitter feed are also now live.