“So there's thousands of pages of information, of designs, of characters, of effects, how these effects are going to work, what's going to happen. This isn't something that's created overnight, and I think Mr. Caen has indicated that he gathered this information, had the company gather this information for everything prior to April 4, 2009.”— Jeffery Gersh
Summary of terms of settlement
- Both parties agree to dismiss the case, with prejudice (meaning the case cannot be refiled).
- Bethesda paid Interplay $US 2 million.
- Interplay delivered the Gold Masters of the prior games to Bethesda.
- Interplay asserted the source code for the older games no longer exists, but in the event of it being located, they would also be turned over to Bethesda.
- The TLA would be terminated, and Interplay thus surrendered any claim to the Fallout franchise.
- As per prior agreements, Interplay could continue to sell the older Fallout titles until the end of 2013.
- Interplay is prohibited from porting the games to any non-PC platform.
- Interplay is prohibited from modifying the games, except for patches to allow it to work on PC.
- Streaming deals, beyond a completed deal with OnLive are prohibited.
- All work on Fallout Online was to cease, and the domain name turned over to Bethesda.
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Project V13 title was reused for a completely different game.
