Vivendi Studios is the large company that owns Interplay (and Blizzard and a few others for that matter). If Interplay's figures don't look up, Viv'll probably do the same thing they did to BiS. Also, Interplay's inder a strict contract with Viv, disallowing most transfers of intellectual property (F3 source code, etc.) without express permission from Vivendi. At least, that's what I heard straight from former Black Isle devs in the days after Van Buren (F3) was cancelled.
