MMORPG News - Fallout MMO Plan Officially Announced @ TVG

According to Total Video Game,  Interplay, the nearly extinct development company responsible for the genre-bending CRPG mega-hits Fallout and Baldur's Gate, does in fact fully plan to enter the dog-eat-dog MMO market by producing a Fallout MMO as was long speculated. Interplay may be down, but they're not quite out, and they appear to be literally throwing all they can muster into the ambitious new project.

Despite financial issues the report alleges that development will begin during January 2007 with a planned release in July 2010, allocating $5 million to pre-production; $40 million to production and $30 million as a launch budget - exactly where Interplay have discovered these funds is currently unclear, perhaps Eric Caen won the Euro Lottery recently...

Detailing the assumptions of the project, Interplay hopes to achieve one million subscribers during its first year - something that only three titles (Lineage, Lineage 2 and World of Warcraft) have managed to attain as of July 2006. The projections continue with the hope to make a profit in the second year, generating revenue of $160 million per year after the first, with a return on investment occurring during the third year of operation.