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- proper noun the large peninsula directly north of
Inverness inScotland 'sHighland district.
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Examples
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Families from outlying glens and those from the Black Isle had a way to go to reach their homes and were worried about the possibility of being stranded.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Obsidian Entertainment are the modern incarnation of Black Isle.
Red Eagle team with Obsidian to make WHEEL OF TIME game Adam Whitehead 2010
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The new game, a stand-alone title using the same engine as Fallout 3 and set in the same world but halfway across the continent in Nevada, is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the successor company to Black Isle who originally created the Fallout franchise.
FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS to be released in Fall 2010 Adam Whitehead 2010
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The project was code named Van Buren, and Black Isle had gotten a good way into developing both the story and engine.
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As for the Black Isle, what could sound more Enid Blyton?
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The new game, a stand-alone title using the same engine as Fallout 3 and set in the same world but halfway across the continent in Nevada, is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the successor company to Black Isle who originally created the Fallout franchise.
Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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All we have left is a few hundred around the Cairngorms and places like the Black Isle.
Endangered: are Scotland's wildcats running out of lives? 2010
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Obsidian Entertainment are the modern incarnation of Black Isle.
Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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The Black Isle team was hard at work on Fallout 3 — which, while rendered in a wholly 3D world, felt spiritually very similar to its forebears.
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One and a half years after Planescape was effectively dropped as a D&D campaign setting, a computer roleplaying company named Black Isle released Planescape: Torment, using the Infinity Engine which had proven so popular in the previous year's Baldur's Gate.
The Worlds of D&D: Planescape Adam Whitehead 2009
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