Interplay, apparently alive again after going under the radar for a while, are announcing that they have a team officially working on the Fallout MMO which hardcore fans have for a long time suspected Interplay to be betting big on.

The company has unveiled a new Internet site and they are announcing that they plan to improve their communication effort aimed at customers, investors and partners. Apart from the various sections and forums, the site is also the host of the biggest Fallout announcement since Bethesda said it would be developing Fallout 3.

Chris Taylor, one of the game designers who worked on the first release for Interplay way back in 1994, is the guy who will be leading the team supposed to deliver Project V13, the official development name for the Fallout MMO. The studio Chris Taylor is heading is in Irvine, California and Interplay’s planning to have a few more people work on the title.

Interplay has had a lot of financial trouble lately, even though the company has created classics like the first Baldur's Gate, Descent, Earthworm Jim or Freespace. It has sold the rights to the Fallout setting to Bethesda for a nice tidy sum of money but it retained the rights to the Fallout MMO, with the intention of re-launching its operations with it.

No details are known regarding the upcoming game. The setting of Fallout is uniquely suited to the MMO treatment, because the various Vaults which were set up to get humanity through nuclear winter housed a lot of people. The upcoming MMO can encourage players to take wildly different approaches to the game, because of the biological and ethical diversity that the post apocalyptic scenario creates. There's even a chance that some of you can choose to play as the mutants which inhabit the game world.