Black Isle. Back in Biz?

BlvdNights

Apparently? With none of the original people who made it what it was?

http://kotaku.com/5936905/looks-like-interplay-is-bringing-back-the-studio-that-made-fallout

It seems like Black Isle, the game studio behind RPG classics like Fallout and Planescape: Torment, is making some sort of comeback.
An official website for the new Black Isle popped up today, as did Facebook and Twitter pages (as spotted by the folks on NeoGAF). The website appears to have been registered by Interplay, the company that owned Black Isle back in the late 90s—and shut it down in 2003.
The elephant in the room here is that as far as we know, all of the people who used to work at Black Isle—talented video game designers like Feargus Urquhart and Chris Avellone—are now elsewhere. Some are at Obsidian, the company behind games like Fallout: New Vegas and Knights of the Old Republic II, while others are at inXile, the studio currently working on crowdfunded RPG Wasteland 2.
Interplay also recently lost all rights to develop a Fallout MMORPG.

Justin Meisse

ugh, looking into the history of Interplay it's not even Interplay anymore! It's the ghost of Titus Software.

skylebones

I loved the work of Black Isle back in the day. But this company is Black Isle in name only. Still though, a new studio is a new studio. And that is a great thing!

Blaisoid

lol, why even bother using that name?

most of cRPG fans are aware of the fact that this studio couldn't possibly have anything to do with people who made games that they love.
using "black isle" will only remind them that this isn't black isle.