InXile acquires Wasteland

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For those of you who remember mr Brian Fargo, the old CEO of Interplay, will be glad to hear that his new company called InXile have bought the rights to Wasteland. So it looks like good old Fargo will develop both Bards Tale and Wasteland, some good old games.
I noticed this in a thread on the IPLY boards.
 
I was wondering what happened to Fargo, after he left Inteprplay for having no power at all, I thought he joined the company that built the Ultima series or something, but this sounds better :D
 
Capelworth showed me the proof through pm on the BIS boards , here it is azip:
I can't link directly to a page with the information, but here is the information (which can be verified with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)...

USPTO wrote:
Thank you for your request. Here are the latest results from the TARR web server.

This page was generated by the TARR system on 2003-07-30 23:56:01 ET

Serial Number: 78262017

Registration Number: (NOT AVAILABLE)

Mark (words only): WASTELAND

Current Status: Newly filed application, not yet assigned to an examining attorney.

Date of Status: 2003-07-07

Filing Date: 2003-06-13

Registration Date: (DATE NOT AVAILABLE)

Law Office Assigned: LAW OFFICE 111


If you are the applicant or applicant's attorney and have questions about this file, please contact the Trademark Assistance Center at TrademarkAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov

Current Location: M2D -TMO Law Office 111 - Docket Clerk

Date In Location: 2003-07-28




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CURRENT APPLICANT(S)/OWNER(S)

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1. inXile Entertainment, Inc.

Address:
inXile Entertainment, Inc.
2727 Newport Blvd., Suite 100
Newport Beach,, CA 92663
United States
State or Country of Incorporation: Delaware
Legal Entity Type: Corporation
Phone Number: 949-675-3690
Fax Number: 949-675-3654
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Great portfolio, both Wasteland and Bards Tale , i`m a happy man (but if he does real time action fests...)
 
I'm a little scared because Fargo was supposedly the one who set Interplay on the console-only route. Since he was the one gave them both the go ahead in the first place and produced them though, I have to hope he'll do the right thing. Who knows, maybe he'll farm Wasteland out to Troika......
 
Troika...

All I know is, I'm still waiting to PLAY ToEE before I start praising Troika as the 'saviour' of certain games/genres, mainly because I thought Arcanum was absolutely **HORRIBLE**.
 
Actually the current trend started when Interplay was taken over, and took all power away from Fargo, and they started to lose people like Tim Cain. Fargo left because he felt that he had no power anymore over what was being made.

And I see now why Iplay boards are so hated, they even turned that into a flamefest! And it started with some guy saying Fargo got fired while he left of his own free will. Bah, stupid board guys there...
 
AFAIK Fargo did some bad decisions himself in Interplay, and the Troika guys left before Interplay was taken over.
 
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If you can't trust this face, you can't trust anyone.
fargo.jpg

$300?!? I'll take it, Mr. Fargo. Does it come with the doors? Why is it smoking?
 
Sander said:
Actually the current trend started when Interplay was taken over, and took all power away from Fargo, and they started to lose people like Tim Cain. Fargo left because he felt that he had no power anymore over what was being made.

And I see now why Iplay boards are so hated, they even turned that into a flamefest! And it started with some guy saying Fargo got fired while he left of his own free will. Bah, stupid board guys there...
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Actually, Tim left while Fargo still owned Interplay. Let's just say they didn't see eye-to-eye after Fallout.
 
Re: Troika...

N said:
All I know is, I'm still waiting to PLAY ToEE before I start praising Troika as the 'saviour' of certain games/genres, mainly because I thought Arcanum was absolutely **HORRIBLE**.
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I'm not trying to paint Troika as a savior - I just think that since the founders of Troika were the lead designer/programmer, the art designer and the lead artist of Fallout, which probably would have been a sequel to Wasteland if Interplay had the rights to it, they would do a better job with it than any other game company I can think of. Tim Cain has expressed interest in the license as well.

Edit: Puuk, since Tim has said he would never work for Interplay again, can we safely assume that Fargo is included in that statement? It would be kind of funny if the two games he bought back were both made by people who vowed never to work for him again.
 
Actually, Tim left while Fargo still owned Interplay. Let's just say they didn't see eye-to-eye after Fallout.
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I remember an old interview he gave a few years ago where he stated that after what happened between FO1 and FO2 he didn`t want to do anything Fallout related again. Then one day he told us on #arcanum that he had tried to get the Fallout license from Interplay to make a Fallout RPG within Troika, at first i was really surprised, but then i remembered Fargo had left the company, so Cain didn`t have to talk to him, and it started to make sense...
 
a little off topic here, but can anyone guess why his company is name, "InXile" ?

InXile = sounds the opposite of Exile to me. :? so it means Fargo is back from Exile. 8)
 
so is inXile a developer or a publisher? Sorry I'm not to fluent on all this stuff. I'm assuming publisher as I don't think developers own liscences to games but again, I don't know much. But hey! I like this news, maybe if fallout 3 sucks, we'll at least get a good game through wasteland :).
 
I just read a comment by Aptyp on DAC, where he says he was told that Interplay owned the rights to Wasteland (before this Inxile news). Can anyone confirm this? I had always thought that EA owned the rights, which is why we got Fallout instead of Wasteland 2. Was there some kind of EA/Interplay deal that prevented either from making a sequel?
 
EA owns the rights, it seems InXile got a license to develop a game on that setting, Interplay didn`t owned the rights, that`s why the Fallout world was created...
 
Yeah. If I remember correctly Interplay were the developers and EA were the publishers.
 
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