Black Isle, Fallout 3 Dead [Dec 08, 2003, 10:32 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
More bad news at Black Isle Studios, where lead designer J.E. Sawyer resigned
just last month (story), as Farewell,
but not goodbye on the Interplay Entertainment Forums (thanks Nels Nelson)
is a post from Damien "Puuk" Foletto that indicates that the studio is
now shut down, referring to today as his "last day at the (former) BIS."
This follows suit with a note sent along by designer John Deiley:
Today marks the end of an era. Black Isle Studios is no more. In yet another sweeping layoff of employees, Interplay has officially let go the last of it's Black Isle employees (save two that I know of) and dissolved the division. Also, the non-announced title that the division was working on, Fallout 3, has been "shelved" to quote management.
Dedeye,
Good summary of the PC market. I don't mind having fewer games for PCs than the consoles - that's the nature of the demographics.
What really burns me is that I can't think of ANY games being designed with that PC demographic in mind, with the exception of Half Life 2 & Tribes: Vengeance. We'll see what Bioware does with their PC-only RPG. (BTW - I crossed Thief 3 off this list after seeing DX:IW. Anyone else disagree this will be "streamlined" as well?)
I used to be able to look forward to a dozen titles off in the future for the PC, but now????
Istari
Good summary of the PC market. I don't mind having fewer games for PCs than the consoles - that's the nature of the demographics.
What really burns me is that I can't think of ANY games being designed with that PC demographic in mind, with the exception of Half Life 2 & Tribes: Vengeance. We'll see what Bioware does with their PC-only RPG. (BTW - I crossed Thief 3 off this list after seeing DX:IW. Anyone else disagree this will be "streamlined" as well?)
I used to be able to look forward to a dozen titles off in the future for the PC, but now????
Istari
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