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Black Isle Studios

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(thing) by ymelup (1.9 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Sun Aug 27 2000 at 20:28:19

A game developer, now owned and published by Interplay. They are considered to be single-handedly responsible for the resurrection of RPG's as a gaming genre after an apparent demise in the early '90s at the hands of the popularity of first-person shooters and real time strategy games, especially with their release of Fallout and its sequel. The irony was that it was not set in the traditional RPG medieval setting, but post-nuclear apocalypse. The company motto is "by gamers for gamers". It has since gone on to produce games such as Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale.

(thing) by zaku (2.8 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Wed Feb 18 2004 at 23:29:33

RIP BIS

Interplay put Black Isle Studios out to pasture on December 8, 2003. This resulted in the cancellation of Van Buren, the third game in the Fallout series. If you see anything from BIS from then on, it is simply an imprint like the book industry uses.

Black Isle was originally founded in 1998 by Feargus Urquhart, who left in April 2003 to found Obsidian Entertainment, considered by many to be BIS' successor.

Releases

This list is of games published or developed by BIS. Right now it's just titles as listed on the BIS website (<http://www.blackisle.com/>, and still up, amazingly). I'll be detailing the list sometime soon, hopefully. /msg me if it's been too long or if you have more info for the list.


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Icewind Dale Planescape Torment Baldur's Gate fallout
Icewind Dale II Fallout tactics Lionheart Brotherhood of Steel
Interplay All Flesh Must Be Eaten Obeying the speed limit as a form of entertainment Wasteland
Yak butter tea Fallout 2 RPG AD&D
The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles Black Ark Branwen bag of devouring
Radiohead Bufflehead techno Boo
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