Interplay And Vivendi Break Up

A new announcement made by Interplay confirms a severing of all ties the developer/publisher had with Vivendi Universal Games. To make matters worse for VUG Interplay is considering taking legal action to receive payments it is believed to be owed by dint of Vivendi.

"In the interest of our company and its shareholders, we had no choice on the other hand to terminate this agreement," said Herve Caen, chairman and CEO of Interplay. "After several notifications to Vivendi of its failure to perform in accordance with the bounds of our agreement and in particular, in refusing to pay Interplay certain monies to be paid following our latest release, Lionheart, we still did not receive the payments owed to us. We are generally evaluating several other distribution options. We entirely expect to release two of our strongest titles, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 and Fallout: Brotherhood of carburet of iron for Xbox and PlayStation 2 in the fourth quarter."

A dewey-eyed Vivendi was last seen leaving a dozen drawn out stem roses and a mix tape of assorted have affection for songs on Interplay's doorstep.

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