The once great developer has returned. What are your thoughts? Will they suck, will it end up like Trokia or Obsidian?

In name only. It's not the same company, it's not the same people, it's just the last vestiges of Interplay trying to make a buck off an old name they still own.

Nothing to see here, move along.

You don't think I don't know that. I just posted to see if ayone else had info.

Herve Caen pulling a cheap PR stunt. Though Chris Taylor is still working there...

Here's the real eternal question. What can change the nature of interplay Entertainment?

Hopefully a good game.

BIS studios had a very quiet launch if you look at gaming news shows, and other sites it's not listed. Only a few articles actually talked about it.

I don't know if it's desperation or genius; I'm still torn. On one end there is the history of the name and the fantastic games they produced; on the other is the blatant fact that Interplay is hurting and needs a slam dunk or two in the worst possible way.

I will NEVER say no to a new development house, but it seems to me that it's going to be a huge hurtle to overcome. People remember Fallout and Planescape with a great deal of affection and ANYONE who takes the name Black Isle is going to have anything they produce held up to that standard. I think it's a mistake to resurrect the name for the sake of preying on gamer's nostalgia; one that will explode violently in Interplay's face if they fail to produce something on par with the Black Isle classics.

Heaven forbid if they produce an FPS! That would kill so many people's faith in Interplay that it could be a death nell for them.

HORRIBLE THOUGHT: What if interplay is under the horrible idea that every BI classic can be remade into an FPS (i.e. fallout 3)? Planescape in FP anyone?

Well interplay has the rights to very few licences and IP's so either they make remakes of games like earth worm jim, decent, die by the sword or new IP's (remember Atari owns the rights to DnD last time I checked)

Since one of the original devs are there, it's not entirely a different studio. People should reserve judgment, not condemn people who are just trying to make something happen.

It's still a new developer, with the exception of very few employees from the original studio.

Obsidian is still closer to the Old Black isle than this new one

That is very much true, Trokia was close too but there gone now.

I'm waiting for this:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/09/planescape-torment-sequel/

Most of the Troika employees went to Obsidian when their studio collapsed (Tim Cain being one example), a few others scattered. Some of them moved on again after that (eg Brian Mitsoda who formerly worked on VTM:B left after Alpha Protocol was developed).