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Originally posted by Prophecy
Hopefully the crew from the Studio can go somewhere else that is finanically stable and create new amazing games. I'd love to see the crew from BIS go to Bioware 
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Maybe you missed this on my link:
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Carsten Strehse of Silver Style, developers of the post-nuclear game the Fall, revealed in a thread about the canning of Fallout 3 that it is not impossible for Silver Style to purchase the rights to the Fallout 3 PC game in the near future, if Interplay is selling. Here what he had to say:
Well, we are definatly interested in hiring some of the former Balck Isle staff. I try to get in contact with them.
I also disclose no big secret if I tell you that we have found a mayor partner for The Fall and that money wouldn't be the biggest problem when we would try to get the FO licence.
My biggest concern is the reaction of the FO community. We're all huge fans of FO here and have deepest respect for the achivements of the dev team. However, we are no Black Isle, we are Silver Style. And I'm afraid that the community wouldn't be pleased with a FO3 that wasn't developed by the original team. Even if I'm very sure that we could deliver a real stunning game.
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The possibility of them getting the FO license is small, however. They might get the PC license leased to them, but Interplay realise that in FO they have a one-of-a-kind monopoly (at least until the Fall is released).
Also, I doubt the FO community would have any problems with FO3 if the original BIS team were contracted to work on it.
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P.S. I believe although Black Isle and Bioware worked together on the Baldur's Gate games that Bioware is listed as the offical developer for those games. Black Isle Studios did the Icewind Dale and Fallout games solo.
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True, but if you were on the BIS and BIO boards during the development phase, you'll realise just how big an influence BIS had on those products. BIS couldnt finance the development of a game of BG's size. It would be good to see some of them move to BIO, but even better if the whole division could be contracted.