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Brian Fargo has been in the games business since its infancy having founded Interplay Entertainment in 1983. Interplay became a top 5 PC games publisher in the mid 90's having produced some of the biggest franchises of all time including Bard's Tale, Wasteland, and Fallout. Interplay also helped to launch the careers of some of the biggest developers such as Blizzard, Bioware, and Treyarch. While at Interplay, Fargo brought Universal/MCA in as an equity partner and later took Interplay public in 1998. In addition, Fargo has served on the board of the IDSA, given key speeches at the industry's leading shows and most recently was the keynote at GDC China.

Fargo formed inXile entertainment in 2002 and has just recently raised just under 3 million dollars with crowd sourced funding via Kickstarter for the newest project Wasteland® 2.