Vivendi Studios is the large company that owns Interplay (and Blizzard and a few others for that matter).
When Vivendi owns Interplay, it does not own Blizzard, which is an independant company. It publishes console versions of Blizzard games but that's all.
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.
Fallout 3 is already in production. Interplay hired some company to make it, I have no idea which, but my closest guess would be Silver Style.
Also, BG: Dark Alliance 2 sells very well, hence Interplay is not yet closing.
