Check this out, quoted from one of one of Gamespot.com's "Rumor Control" articles:
"RUMOR #4: Interplay has gone out of business.
Source: The official Interplay
Web site, which has been down for a week.
The official story: E-mails to Interplay's sole internal publicity rep were not returned.
What we heard: In mid-April, Interplay announced a series of bold business initiatives, including the
resurrection of Fallout 3. It also revealed that it was
facing eviction from its Irvine, California, headquarters due to nonpayment of rent. Shortly thereafter, the
site for Black Isle, Interplay's all-but-shut-down internal developer, was replaced by a single page saying it was "undergoing maintenance." Then it went offline altogether. Now it seems the same fate has befallen Interplay's main site,
www.interplay.com--although without the advance warning. The Web site simply stopped working sometime last weekend, and it remains down as of press time. The resulting confusion has fueled speculation in many forums that, if it can't even keep its Web presence afloat, the once-mighty publisher of Baldur's Gate and Fallout has indeed finally become insolvent. However, a call to Interplay's office dispelled that notion. Though the company hasn't had a live operator in months, Interplay's voicemail system does still indeed work, meaning that, for now, the company is still around.
[UPDATE] Four days after this story was first filed, reports began to come in that on Tuesday, June 1, Interplay employees were told by the human resources department to collect their personal belongings and file for unemployment. Attempts to contact Interplay are now hamstrung by the fact that e-mails to addresses ending in "@interplay.com" are being bounced back automatically.
Bogus or not bogus?: The phones are still working--so it's not official yet."
Seems one of my favorite game companies has finally bit the dust. Farewell Interplay
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/...s_6099586.html
EDIT- Sorry if this is O F N for anybody, the article was released like 3 weeks ago, but its the first I've seen of this...
2004-07-21, 06:42 AM
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