Fallout 3 - Keeping Faith in Fallout

Official Xbox Magazine contributor David Wildgoose has an interesting blog called Unified Ammo and has written a piece on new developers taking over an old franchise - Fallout 3 being the particular game du jour - and looking at other examples in gaming history:

What’s notable with Fallout 3 is the length of time between Black Isle signing off on Fallout 2 and Bethesda applying its own seal to the series. Ten years is a long time in gaming. It’s enough time for entire genres to rise and fall in popularity; for new technology to change our perception of what makes for a modern game; for development studios to have created a history of their own, with all the expectation and baggage that entails; for new platforms to arrive and shift the commercial landscape; and for older games to be deified on the altar of nostalgia.