The big day finally arrived, bringing us announcements for new RPGs from Obsidian Entertainment and Playground Games, as well as our first look at campaign gameplay from Halo Infinite and more.
Read More »Microsoft renews Fable trademark ahead of anticipated July reveal
Microsoft may have downplayed recent rumours about the return of Fable and Perfect Dark but evidence elsewhere continues to stack up. The latest discovery is Microsoft very recently renewed the trademark for the Fable IP, coinciding with rumours that Playground Games is working on a reboot. The rumour that Playground …
Read More »Xbox exec says ‘sorry to get your hopes up’ following social media discovery
Late last night, Xbox fans took notice of two recently created ‘placeholder’ accounts for two big franchises, Fable and Perfect Dark, both of which are rumoured to be getting new entries for next-gen. While the Fable rumour still holds strong, the Perfect Dark account appears to have been a hoax. …
Read More »Evidence points to Perfect Dark and Fable announcements
Microsoft’s big first-party games showcase is coming up very soon and eagle-eyed fans are already picking up on some clues for announcements. The most recent information found indicates that Fable and Perfect Dark games will be revealed. In the build-up to big announcements, companies will usually set up placeholder social …
Read More »Xbox Games with Gold for April includes Fable and Project Cars 2
Microsoft is continuing to offer to its Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers a number of free games each month. The month of April is looking good for anyone who is a fan of racing games or RPGs, as Project Cars 2, Fable Anniversary, Knights of Pen and …
Read More »Fable Fortune is closing down
Following the closure of Lionhead studios back in April 2016, it came to light that a few of the developers there were working on a Fable-based card game. Upon leaving, those developers worked out a deal with Microsoft to keep the game alive under the name ‘Fable Fortune’. The game ended up …
Read More »Playground Games is staffing up with industry veterans for its rumoured Fable game
We’ve known since the start of the year that Microsoft Studio, Playground Games, has been working on a big RPG project. Currently, the rumour is that this will be a revival of the Fable franchise, in an open-world setting with a big focus on the single-player story. Now, the UK-based …
Read More »Microsoft is reportedly bringing back Fable as a story focused RPG
It has been almost two years since Microsoft shut down Lionhead Studios, the creators of Fable. While Lionhead might be gone, it looks like Microsoft isn’t giving up on the Fable franchise, with sources this week reporting that a new game in the series is currently in the works. This …
Read More »Torchlight & Hob devs, Runic Games, almost made a Fable title
Last week, Torchlight and Hob developer Runic Games was shut down by its parent company, Perfect World Entertainment. Travis Baldree, co-founder of the studio has since opened up about Runic’s history, sharing stories about its relationship with Microsoft. Runic Games’ closure was due to the bitter direction game development is …
Read More »Lionhead Studios is officially closing down today
After two decades as a staple game studio here in the UK, producing franchises like Black and White as well as Fable, Lionhead Studios is officially closing its doors today. We learned last month that Microsoft was ‘proposing’ its closure after the cancellation of Fable Legends and now, it seems that …
Read More »Fable Legends cancelled, Microsoft to close down Lionhead UK
Microsoft is making some big changes to its studios based in the UK and Denmark this week. The company just announced today that firstly, Lionhead Studios will be ceasing production on Fable Legends and the studio will likely shut down following on from that. Secondly, a studio in Denmark will …
Read More »Lionhead Studios reveals canceled game InkQuest
Lionhead Studios, the developer behind the Fable series, has revealed InkQuest, a now canceled game from the studio’s lesser known ‘incubation team’, which is in charge of experimenting with new game ideas and showing them off to gauge public reaction. The Microsoft owned development company has been dabbling in new …
Read More »Fable Anniversary to come to Steam in September
The very first Fable game is widely considered as the best in the series, so when Fable Anniversary was first announced, both console and PC gamers alike got a little excited. However, the game only landed on the 360 and until now, we didn’t know if it would ever come …
Read More »KitGuru Gaming – Weekly Round Up
For those tech readers who don’t always get time to check out our game related content at Kitguru gaming – here is a round up of content published in the last week. “A New Way of Playing RPG’s” As games move away from controllers and into truly motion-based controls, will …
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