Interplay's plans for a Fallout MMO may be taken out of their hands if their latest financial filing is to be believed. Some of you may remember that Interplay sold off the Fallout franchise completely to Bethesda Softworks a few years ago. However that agreement had a clause that gave Interplay the rights to make an MMO based on the post-apocalypse RPG series if certain conditions were met.

In Interplay's annual 10-k report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission this week they state Bethesda Softworks, " . . . Intends to terminate the trademark license agreement . . . for the development of FALLOUT MMOG." The agreement stated that the game had to be in full scale development by now and that Interplay had to secure funding to continue to develop the game. Just a few days ago, Interplay announced an agreement with Masthead Studios to co-fund and co-develop "Project V: 13" (which most people believe is the code name for the Fallout MMO). That announcement could have been a last-ditch attempt to keep the agreement from being broken. However at the moment it doesn't look good for the future of this project.

[Via No Mutants Allowed]