Commenting on the results, Interplay Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Herve Caen said, "These results mark an important milestone for Interplay. In 2003, we had a return to operating profit and substantially reduced our debt. However, we continue to operate under cash constraints. Specifically, Interplay is three months in arrears on its corporate lease obligation, may have short-term payroll difficulties and has outstanding payroll tax obligations as of the date of this release. Certainly, financial challenges remain, yet we are proud of what our team has accomplished thus far and we are committed to working even harder to maintain our return to operating profitability. "

There are plans to publish Fallout 3 for the PC through an external studio

Baldur's Gate 3 is definitely no longer Interplay's, leaving them with Dark Alliance games

They will not do a sequel for Fallout Brotherhood of Steel (gee, maybe it flopped?), but will do another Action/RPG-crossbreed console game in the Fallout world. Plans on this are a bit shady, not sure which engine to use.

The next Dark Alliance game will be with a new licensed engine. It will be set in a new Interplay world, not on a DnD world.

Brief mentions of next-generation platforms aside, the conference call also cleared up a bit of confusion on the situation with Atari and Interplay with respect to Dungeons & Dragons. Specifically, Interplay revealed that it will be creating another game in its Dark Alliance series, with the next game being based on a world that isn’t in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, as Atari has that license. Of course the biggest bit of news was the revelation that Interplay plans on publishing Fallout 3. While details weren’t put forth, Inteplay did state that an external studio will be working on the title. Check back with us for more news as today wraps up.