Former Black Isle personnel reunite for WASTELAND 2
Brian Fargo and his company, inXile, have been crowd-funding a new, old-school RPG called Wasteland 2 for the past couple of weeks. Rather than going through a publisher, they've been raising funds themselves via the ' Kickstarter ' programme. Their original goal was $900,000, but they have recently passed $1,800,000. This has prompted Fargo to make another offer: if funding passes $2,100,000, they will be able to hire Obsidian Entertainment Studios to work on the game with them. A little bit of back-history to explain why this is significant. Fargo is the founder of Interplay, one of the most well-known publishers in gaming history (Interplay survives today, but only really to re-print copies of their old games as various budget and compilation formats; Fargo left them in the early 2000s). Interplay as a whole worked on everything from Battle Chess to the mighty Freespace series of space combat games, but it's their RPGs which are mostly fondly remembered. In parti...