Interplay

I should have known this was coming! The second Steam loaded up this morning the nostalgia nerd in my almost ripped through my rib cage and into my monitor.  The Earthworm Jim series is now on Steam!

$20 for all three games. Could I love you any more, Steam?  Only if you snagged the old Apogee games and Mountain King Studios.  Anyway, get the entire EWJ series here.

There are some great savings on games on Steam this weekend.  Yesterday we had a little treat with the Lucasarts Jedi Knight pack being released.  Today, we get grand news from a few companies.  Interplay for you retro junkies and for those of you who got a chance to read Ag3nt's review on Majesty, it's sequel Majesty 2 came out today.  Hit the jump for pricing and details.

Interplay already went belly up once in its lifetime. It certainly didn't need this.

Bethesda has filed a complaint against Interplay because of a supposed breach of contract.
This could spell very bad things for the recently resurrected Interplay and anyone looking forward to the Fallout MMO, also known as "Project: V13".  More after the jump.

Interplay is a name you don't hear very often in the gaming world anymore, as for some time they ceased being a company due to an outstanding debt. This was despite making some incredibly memorable game series like MDK, Fallout and Earthworm Jim.  Recently they were revived by selling the Fallout intellectual property rights to Bethesda Softworks.  With this revival, they intend to bring back many of their other classic IP's, but this article will include only one of them, one of my all-time favorites; Descent.

See that image above? That is what Fallout was before Fallout 3. I bet a good portion of people reading this post missed the original games, too. Well, now you have no excuse. The original Fallout games, along with Kingpin and Sacrifice, are now available on Steam. Each of the games are  only $9 individually, but you can pick up a pack of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout: Tactics for $20. What are you waiting for?

Late 2009 you will finally get to play Earthworm Jim on this generation of consoles. Notsalgia glasses be damned, this game will always have a place in my heart.

Xbox360 owners will get a 1 month exclusivity.

Said Herve Caen, the CEO at Interplay, "Gameloft's creativity coupled with its innate knack for innovative games, makes us 100% confident that the result will be nothing short of stellar."

I cannot agree more.