In 2004, Interplay closed Black Isle Studios, and continued to produce an action game with RPG elements for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel without Black Isle Studios.

Following an acquisition by Titus Software, Interplay was nearing bankruptcy in 2004 but continued operations, even after the liquidation of Titus.

Development of version 2. 0 of the game continued throughout 1998, and Interplay announced that it would publish an improved version ( dubbed Battlecruiser 3000AD v2. 0 ) through its Value Product Division.

Interplay Entertainment eventually cut funding to the studios, the production once again coming to an end, though the community found enough money to finance Majorem ; eventually the production continued.

Interplay grew to over 600 employees at its zenith in the mid-1990s.

Soon after acquiring the rights to the IP, Bethesda licensed the rights to make a massively multiplayer online role-playing game version of Fallout to Interplay.

Interplay argued to have the second contract that sold Fallout voided which would result in the 1st contract that licensed Fallout to come back into effect.

After which Interplay licensed the rights to create three Fallout games to Bethesda Softworks.

Interplay then licensed out to Gameloft the rights to create Earthworm Jim HD.

At the end of the project, Interplay marketing added licensed music and changed the name to Rock N ' Roll Racing.

Sony Japan licensed the game from Interplay so they could release it themselves in Japan.

In 2001, Interplay bowed out of the franchise and Activision took over as the most prominent developer of Trek-themed titles.

The success of Starfleet Command came as surprise to Interplay, and as a result, Erik Bethke formed Taldren, Inc. together with 9 members of the original Starfleet Command team to create additional titles for the series.

Interplay went public, with shares sold on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, in 1998, changing its name to " Interplay Entertainment Corp ." The company then reported several years of losses, as titles such as Descent 3 and FreeSpace 2 had lackluster sales, despite being critically acclaimed.

* Interplay Films, a division of Interplay Entertainment, was formed in 1998 and was supposed to develop seven of the company ’ s most popular video game titles into movies, including Descent, Redneck Rampage and Fallout.

Increased competition, less than stellar returns on Interplay ’ s sports division and the lack of console titles forced the company to seek additional funding two years later with an investment from Titus Software, a Paris-based game company.

As a designer Avellone contributed to the fantasy titles Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance ( 2001 ), Champions of Norrath ( 2004 ) and led the design of the cancelled Fallout title Van Buren, after which he resigned from Interplay and joined Obsidian Entertainment.

Inon Zur also worked closely with Interplay audio director Adam Levenson while composing the music ; Zur and Levenson had worked together on several previous titles.

His music has also been featured in such game titles as Arc The Lad by Working Designs, Shadoan by Interplay, The Far Reaches by 3DO, Tesselmania by MECC and others.

Interplay has described its 1997 game Fallout as the spiritual successor to Wasteland.

Interplay started publishing its own games, starting with Neuromancer and Battle Chess, in 1988, and then moved on to publish and distribute games from other companies, while continuing internal game development.

In 2001, French publisher Titus Interactive completed its acquisition of majority control of Interplay.

Interplay launched a counter suit claiming that Bethesda's claims were meritless and that it did have the right to sell Fallout Trilogy via online stores via its contract with Bethesda.

Interplay then launched its own program to publish indie development games, Interplay Discovery, through Discovery they launched their first game in years, Pinball Yeah !, which was followed by Tommy Tronic.

Interplay played its part in drumming up the community's interest by holding contests, and expanding material for the FreeSpace universe.

Fargo's goal in the acquisition of Shiny was to help Interplay transition into the console business, in addition to its successful PC game releases.

Mission Studios also signed distribution deal with Interplay Productions for its products.

On August 22, 2012, Interplay revived the studio, nearly nine years after its closure.

* December — Interplay closes its Black Isle Studios division.

In September 2003, Interplay announced that it had canceled its deal with Vivendi to be the publisher of its games, due to alleged breaches of the working agreement and failure of payment, and was considering legal action.

In November 2003, Interplay announced it had resolved its legal dispute with Vivendi, and had returned to the prior publishing agreements.

The game, alongside a novelization, would remain the only entry in its series until the announcement of Stonekeep: Bones of the Ancients in 2010 by Interplay, a game developed by Alpine Studios.

On June 24, 2010, Interplay announced that it was planning to release MDK2 to the Wii platform through its WiiWare service to be developed by Beamdog, which was founded by ex-members of BioWare and is also an online gaming distribution site, much like Steam.

On November 13, 2007, GameSpot reported that Interplay Entertainment has announced that it will restart its in-house development studio and has plans to develop a MDK sequel among other classic Interplay IPs if Interplay can secure financing.

Also, Interplay has confirmed a two-pronged growth strategy which will see the company leveraging its portfolio of gaming properties to create sequels.

Interplay # 8 gave a couple of details, stating that " it deals with Adventurers entering a Goblin fortress and encountering organized military units, and as such often involves 10-20 or more fighters in a battle.

In 2006 Avid launched new products such as Avid Interplay and Unity Isis.

Aside from Dark Alliance, Interplay published a few notable console series such as Earthworm Jim and ClayFighter.

Interplay hired science-fiction writers such as Fred Saberhagen, Simon Hawke, and Jeff Grubb to write weekly FreeSpace stories for two months.

Preparing for Silent Threats release, Interplay held a contest from July 28 to August 25, 1998, in which the submitted fan-designed missions could win their authors prizes such as free copies of Silent Threat, FreeSpace apparel, and gaming hardware.

By the late 1980s, video game music was being sold as cassette tape soundtracks in Japan, inspiring American companies such as Sierra, Cinemaware and Interplay to give more serious attention to video game music by 1988.

The next game they developed for Interplay, through the Black Isle division, was Baldur's Gate, which proved to be a big hit, followed by others, such as Icewind Dale and the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment.

Gould composed Broadway scores such as Billion Dollar Baby and Arms and the Girl ; film music such as Delightfully Dangerous, Cinerama Holiday, and Windjammer ; music for television series such as World War One ; and ballet scores including Interplay, Fall River Legend, and I'm Old Fashioned.

He worked at Interplay Productions, Maxis, and Spectrum Holobyte, doing game design, playtesting, and writing manuals for such computer games as Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, SimCity 2000, and Flight of the Intruder to name but a few.

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It is also meant to suggest a wide range of works including dance theatre involving technology and spoken words such as Troika Ranch ’ s The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz ( Troika Ranch, 2000 ), to the creation of original text-based works online by performers like the Plain Text Players or collaborations such as Art Grid ’ s Interplay: Hallucinations, to pre-scripted works such as the classics ( A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream, The Tempest ) staged with technology at the University of Kansas and the University of Georgia.