Fallout: New Vegas was just announced earlier today and already a few details are starting to emerge. Shacknews sat down with Bethesda's VP of Marketing, Pete Hines, to talk about New Vegas and the company's trademarks for Fallout in the TV and movie industries.
Obsidian Entertainment consists of many of the former staff from Black Isle, the original developers of the Fallout series. As for the TV and movie copyrights for Fallout?
Feel free to read more of the interview with Pete Hines over at Shacknews. The second part to their interview will be made available next week.
When did Bethesda start thinking about a Fallout spin-off?
Pete Hines: It's something that we've discussed at night for a while, and just had talked about doing. And we said, well, if we're going to do this, we want to do it with the right kinds of folks, and the folks that could do right by it, have the right kind of experience, the right background.
Honestly, we just felt like Obsidian was a great fit for that. They have experience doing this kind of thing, they have guys that worked on the original Fallout games. We really liked their idea for what it is they wanted to do, and we just said, "Okay."
Pete Hines: It's something that we've discussed at night for a while, and just had talked about doing. And we said, well, if we're going to do this, we want to do it with the right kinds of folks, and the folks that could do right by it, have the right kind of experience, the right background.
Honestly, we just felt like Obsidian was a great fit for that. They have experience doing this kind of thing, they have guys that worked on the original Fallout games. We really liked their idea for what it is they wanted to do, and we just said, "Okay."
Obsidian Entertainment consists of many of the former staff from Black Isle, the original developers of the Fallout series. As for the TV and movie copyrights for Fallout?
You guys trademarked the Fallout name for movies and television recently. Was that related to a specific project, or..?
Pete Hines: That's more part of, we spent a lot of time developing Fallout into something that is very hot. It has a lot of people's interest--
So you're just protecting it.
Pete Hines: --and we just want to be make sure that we're protecting what we created.
Pete Hines: That's more part of, we spent a lot of time developing Fallout into something that is very hot. It has a lot of people's interest--
So you're just protecting it.
Pete Hines: --and we just want to be make sure that we're protecting what we created.
Feel free to read more of the interview with Pete Hines over at Shacknews. The second part to their interview will be made available next week.