Black Isle Studios is a division of the computer and video game developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment. Black Isle Studios was a division that developed role-playing video games, and also published several games from other developers.
Black Isle was based in Orange County, California, USA. The division was formed in 1996, adopting the name "Black Isle Studios" in 1998. The idea for the division's name came from the Black Isle in Scotland - founder Feargus Urquhart's native country. Black Isle Studios is most famous for working on the first two games in the popular and influential Fallout series as well as the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment. They also achieved success with the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series of role-playing video games, though they only published the Baldur's Gate series. In 1999, IGN's RPG Vault gave it the award for a Developer Of The Year.
On August 22, 2012, Interplay, after releasing MDK2 HD on Steam would revive the studio with the motto "Our goal has always been to make the world's best RPGs" and the slogan "Black Isle is Back".
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