Despite a prolonged legal ordeal between Interplay and Bethesda, a website for "Fallout Online" has launched, and the undated MMO wants aspiring players to apply for its beta test. Handing your contact info over right now will put you on a mailing list, via which info will be distributed down the road to get into the test. The fact that this is happening at all signals a watershed moment for the game, as ownership of the rights to develop such an MMO have been in dispute.
"We cannot discuss the lawsuit," designer Chris Taylor stated on the Interplay.com forums. "Thank you for your understanding."
That's about all we're likely to learn for the time being on the subject. But I hope everyone is happy and plugging along in a secret studio room somewhere so that "Fallout Online" can become everything it should be.
The postcard image that Interplay released speaks volumes about the sentiments among players and surely the developers as well, since many would have liked to have seen this game appear long ago. Unfortunately, you cannot be there right now, but one day soon it appears you may receive an invitation.
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