Fallout creator Tim Cain says he's often asked why he's not tried to remaster the original RPG - and part of the answer lies in just how aggressively he destroyed all his source code.
Recently, Cain has been making clear that he doesn't own any of the Fallout source code. When he left developer Interplay, he says he was ordered to destroy his personal development archive. That led to rumors that the entire code had been lost or destroyed, until Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heinemann revealed that she had the Fallout source code, and so did a handful of other people.
