Wasteland License Returns to Fargo?

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 8:31 pm

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Fargo's new company inXile is working on acquiring the licensing rights to Wasteland. Pertinent snips from US Patent office...

<blockquote><b>

Serial Number: 78262017

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

CURRENT APPLICANT(S)/OWNER(S)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

</blockquote></b>

Lots of good fun indeed, spotted this over on <a href="http://www.nma-fallout.com" Target=_blank>NMA</a> though the original source can be found on <a href="http://forums.interplay.com/viewtopic.p ... highlight=" target=_blank>thread</a>.

swordinstone · Post by **swordinstone** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 8:35 pm

Killzig wrote:Fargo's new company inXile is working on acquiring the licensing rights not to Wasteland.

typo? feel free to delete this post if so, if not, i dont understand...

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 8:37 pm

oh dear me, I've gone cross eyed. I blame you Archimed!

Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 8:37 pm

To put it most eloquently, yay

swordinstone · Post by **swordinstone** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 9:25 pm

Looks like they have aquired it, according to NMA...

For those of you who remember mr Brian Fargo, the old president of Black Isle, will be glad to hear that his new company called InXile have bought the rights to Wasteland (the game Fallout is based on). So it looks like good old Fargo will develop both Bards Tale and Wasteland, some good old games.

Temaperacl · Post by **Temaperacl** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 9:34 pm

Slave_Master wrote:To put it most eloquently, yay

A sentiment I'll second- Yay!

Raymondo · Post by **Raymondo** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 9:39 pm

How much would it cost to renew or reacquire the license anyway?

NumberZero · Post by **NumberZero** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 11:27 pm

probably not alot, considering that anyone at interplay or its subsidiaries that worked on wasteland has already been fired.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 11:49 pm

Probably a whole fuckload of money since Interplay doesn't own Wasteland, EA does, and EA are a bunch of money-grubbing assholes.

NumberZero · Post by **NumberZero** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:33 am

oh crap ive been proven wrong

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:45 am

Can't imagine what they'd possibly do with that licence - the possibilities are endless - but whatever happens will at least be OK, I think.

Ripper · Post by **Ripper** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:56 am

hey, InXile sounds like the opposite to Exile to me

, so this means that Fargo is back in business. Certainly alot of things happened when Van Buren was unveiled. :oops:

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 2:12 am

I was told by, let's see, Chris Taylor? that Interplay owns the rights to Wasteland game, and EA only published it, so theoretically they could've made Wasteland 2. Don't know the details.

Briosafreak · Post by **Briosafreak** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 3:09 am

ApTyp wrote:I was told by, let's see, Chris Taylor? that Interplay owns the rights to Wasteland game, and EA only published it, so theoretically they could've made Wasteland 2. Don't know the details.

EA owns the rights to Wasteland, that`s why the Fallout setting was created in the first place

Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 3:20 am

Yeah on the Fallout box it says something about Wasteland, then at the bottom it says that Wasteland is owned by EA and whatnot.

Doyle · Post by **Doyle** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 5:15 am

ApTyp wrote:I was told by, let's see, Chris Taylor? that Interplay owns the rights to Wasteland game, and EA only published it

Other people have alluded to it, but you have it backwards. Fargo was involved in the development of Wasteland, but EA actually owned the license.

Raymondo · Post by **Raymondo** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 2:41 pm

Another thing I've never understood is what happens to a licence when a company dies or is a company preannounced dead when it has no licences and no money?

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 3:27 pm

its like elvis

or something

they keep it

swordinstone · Post by **swordinstone** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 3:29 pm

Fallout Junkie wrote:Another thing I've never understood is what happens to a licence when a company dies or is a company preannounced dead when it has no licences and no money?

I believe that it is still somehow attached to that company for a set amount of time (years). Then after said amount of time expires, it becomes public domain. I'm probably wrong, but I think I remember that much from my entertainment law class.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 1:25 am

This is good news, it's pretty much like another fallout. Whole new story and stuff too.

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