Interplay is in trouble, it seems. The company's recent 10-K financial report has revealed that Bethesda is already claiming a breach in the two companies' license agreement for the Fallout MMO.

Interplay reports that the team behind the upcoming Fallout MMO is bringing in Chris Taylor, who worked on the original Fallout game. If you were worried that the MMO won't be faithful to the series, this might ease your mind. More details after the article.

So what's going to be in our videogaming menu starting this week? A whole lot of DS games once again, we tell you, though there's a few gems or two in the Nintendo handheld rough on Tuesday. There's a music rhythm game for almost every console out there, plus a couple new additions to the portfolio of PC games. Somehow we're also seeing another relaunching of Gears of War for the Xbox 360 the "Refresh" edition. We don't know why it's re-listed, but it is. The full list follows at the full story.

Well, it's official. In a quick interview conducted with Bethesda's Pete Hines, he talks about the recent injection of the company's investment with the new online group that will be spearheading the Elder Scrolls Online game that was rumored a little while back.

The recent acquisition of the new domain, elderscrollsonline.com, by Bethesda Softworks brought about many questions as to the direction the legendary RPG series will be taking.

Check out the rest of the article right after the jump!

Gamernode reports that Interplay, who rolled out a little game called Fallout back in 1997, is still working on a massively multiplayer online title based on the Fallout universe.

Interplay was thought to have gone under in 2004 but resurfaced a year later. Much of the company's financial troubles were alleviated by Bethesda Softworks' purchase of the Fallout franchise in April. While Bethesda is currently the sole owner of the IP, Interplay has remained as a licensee, hence their continued pursuit of the Fallout MMO.

According to Herve Caen, Interplay's CEO and Chairman, the company is now "focused on securing funding for development of [an MMOG] based on the popular Fallout franchise. Along with our strategy of leveraging our existing portfolio of intellectual gaming properties, Fallout Online will play a key role in the future of Interplay."

Before Fallout Online becomes a reality, however, Interplay still needs at least US$ 30 million to fund the game's development. The company still a little over five years left to come out with the MMO, so here's hoping that it pushes through.

Gamasutra reports on a piece of business news with two gaming fallouts - er, implications. Bethesda Softworks has recently bought the Fallout license from Interplay Studios (and not just the rights to dev Fallout 3, but the whole enchilada) for US$ 5.75 million, according to papers filed before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), found by Fallout fansite No Mutants Allowed.

Here's the fallout. Interplay used to own the IP and Bethesda simply licensing the IP for the Fallout 3 installment. Now as Bethesda owns the IP, not only can it securely move forward with the creation of Fallout content without backchecking with the owners (since they are the new owners), but it reaps the intellectual property's income...

... especially from Interplay, now the licensee for its old IP. The same documents also reveal a contractual obligation by Interplay to launch its Fallout massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) within six years from the Effective Date of the agreement between them and Bethesda, with full-scale development occurring within the first twenty-four months... or else Interplay forfeits its license rights. It does give a potential window to when we'll see that Fallout MMOG.

And with the money from the Bethesda enchilada purchase, they may have some seed to start the project. Hey, at least Bethesda's not doing an MMO, like they said.

Samuel Jackson is set to return as the host of Spike TV's fourth annual Video Game Awards. The awards will be taped on December 8 and then will be edited so that viewers won't have to endure all the long boring speeches, the bad jokes at the expense of the visiting celebrities, and the bad onstage performances. The awards will be held at the University of Southern California's Galen Center in LA.

Voting for the show begins today Spike TV's site. Fans can vote in 27 different categories, including Most Addictive Game, Game of the Year and Cyber Vixen of the Year. Voting closes on Thursday, December 7.

Expect Sam to crack another mother-f-in line on the mother-f-in show. The following are the nominees for Spike TV's 2006 Video Game Awards:

CRITIC'S CHOICE
(game to be released after 11/15/2006 & before 12/31/2006)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)
Resistance: Fall of Man (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)
Medieval II: Total War (Sega/Creative Assembly)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (Ubisoft Montreal)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

BEST DRIVING GAME AWARD
Burnout Revenge-XBOX 360 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)
Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts/EA Black Box)
TOCA Race Driver 3 (Codemasters)
GTR 2 (10tacle Studios/SimBin Development Team)

BEST INDIVIDUAL SPORTS GAME
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)
EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 (Electronic Arts/ EA Chicago)
Tony Hawk Project 8 (Activision/Neversoft )
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts/EA Redwood Shores)
Top Spin 2 (2K Sports/Power & Magic)

BEST ACTION GAME
Dead Rising (Capcom)
New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo/Nintendo EAD)
Okami (Capcom/Clover Studio)
Saints Row (THQ/Volition)
Bully (Rockstar Games/Rockstar Vancouver)

See the rest of the nominees after the Jump!

Although Xbox 360 fans have hankered for a little multi player action in the marvellous Oblivion RPG, despite its huge single player experience, they’ve been sadly let down on this front. Bethesda Softworks, makers of the award winning title explain that the reasoning behind this lack of multi player is simple, they state that "Rather than split our focus between two different types of gameplay, we'd rather focus on one and make it the best single-player experience possible.” Sounds like a fairly smart move, despite it leaving fanboys / fangirls wishing for more.

This is where the modding community comes into things. If you’re playing Oblivion on the PC, as opposed to the Xbox 360, you’ll be thrilled to know that ‘The Ferret’ has done just that. Ferret has released an alpha version that allows two players to check out the world of Cyrodiil together, with even more still in the planning stages. Ferret is working on the next release that will hopefully support up to eight players with various game modes, such as old favourites deathmatch and capture the flag.