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Interplay-Vivendi Split News
Chris Leyton
29/09/2003
Galleon seems to sail away as Interplay split with distributor...
Troubled third-party publisher Interplay today severed its distribution agreement with Vivendi-Universal, in a stark move that sends further doubts regarding its future.
In the interest of the company and its shareholders, Interplay Chairman and CEO Herve Caen said, "In the interest of our company and its shareholders, we had no choice but to terminate this agreement. After several notifications to Vivendi of its failure to perform in accordance with the terms of our agreement and in particular, in refusing to pay Interplay certain monies due following our latest release, Lionheart, we still did not receive the payments owed to us. We are currently evaluating several other distribution options. We fully expect to release two of our strongest titles, Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance 2 and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for Xbox and Playstation 2 in the fourth quarter."
Worryingly this makes no mention of their other āstrongā title, Toby Guardās āGalleonā prompting suggestions that the game wonāt make it this year and could in fact find itself canned after such a lengthy development time.
Interplay confirmed that it is considering legal action to recover the payments it believes to be owed and other claims as a result of the alleged failed agreement; weāll have more soon.
