Brian Fargo; Game designer, developer, producer, founder of Interplay and InXile game development will be retiring after the release of Wasteland 3.

Brian Fargo Retiring

His influence on gaming has been huge; Interplay game development was the founding company from which Black Isle and eventually Bioware arose. Interplay was also the first to contract the very new Silicon and Synapse production house, run by friends of Fargo, Allen Adham and Michael Morhaime to produce a game called RPM Racing. Those two developer/producers would eventually change the name of their company and produce one of the most successful game franchises ever; World of Warcraft through their new company Blizzard Entertainment.

If you want to see the whole history, check out his Wiki page: Brian Fargo Wikipedia Page

Thanks for all the info. I have been gaming since the 1980s and Brian Fargo is a very familiar name to me.

I do hope he will have a very happy retirement
[Black Isle and Bioware were my introduction to RPG's "proper" !! Fantastic !! ]

The Wiki article is an interesting history of a big part of the gaming world.

Baldur's Gate was my first RPG, too and also the first 100% non-adventure game I ever played.