Black Isle Studios, the well-remembered developer behind the first two Fallout games and the Icewind Dale series, hasn't actually been a studio since 2003. That's when parent company Interplay shut the studio down, after most of the development team there had already left to form Obsidian Entertainment. But it looks like Interplay is gearing up to make Black Isle a thing once again, registering a website at BlackIsle.com alongside some (currently mostly empty) Facebook and Twitter pages.
Despite the name, the new studio doesn't seem to have much to do with some of the high-profile developers that were once associated with it. Obsidian Creative Lead Chris Avellone, who worked as a senior designer at Black Isle, tweeted that the new studio doesn't involve him or anyone he knows, and Interplay founder Brian Fargo (who is currently working on a Kickstarted Wasteland sequel with indie house inXile Entertainment) tweeted that he doesn't have enough information to comment on the matter.
Interplay hasn't issued an official announcement about the resurrected studio, but the website does include the somewhat cocky statement that "our goal has always been to make the world's best RPGs. Black Isle Studios is back." As the Facebook page helpfully adds: "Black Isle Studios is a division of Interplay formed to develop and publish high quality, commercially successful computer role-playing games." Good to know!
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