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Fallout Online will launch in the second half of 2012, according to Interplay president Eric Caen.  Speaking with Edge Magazine, Caen confirmed that the game’s beta will begin in 2012, with the retail version to come later that same year.  Although he gave few details about the current state of the game, he remarked that “Even in January 2009, you were already able to move across the world.”   It was also stated that combat would be a small portion of the game, and a large amount of gameplay would center around rebuilding the post-nuclear world.

Although he didn’t say much about Bethesda’s take on the series – or the ongoing legal issues between Interplay and Bethesda – he did comment that Interplay was following Bethesda’s installments, and that Fallout Online would go in another, less serious direction from Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

Source: Eurogamer