Herve Caen, CEO of Interplay, announced yesterday that Fallout 3 is on Interplay's publishing radar. This is a very surprising announcement, since the game was all but given its last rights after the shut down of Black Isle Studios.

Mr. Caen stated further that the game is not currently in development, but a third party developer will be picking up the work in the near future. He stated that an announcement will be forthcoming that will further detail the development plans for the game.

Fallout 3 development has been fraught will difficulty. Last year Feargus Urguhart and JE Sawyer, the top folks behind Black Isle and Fallout 3, left the developer. This was followed a few months later with Interplay pulling the plug on Black Isle and Fallout 3's development entirely.