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When Lionhead Studios made the decision to turn its latest entry in the long-running Fable franchise free-to-play, it knew one thing: not everyone was going to love it. The outlet announced back in February that upcoming co-operative action RPG Fable Legends wouldn’t cost a penny on either of its release …
Read More »Fable Legends will be free-to-play
Lionhead's next RPG will update episodically and feature microtransactions
Read More »Fable Legends to arrive on PC alongside Xbox One
Lionhead’s upcoming RPG Fable Legends will be released on PC at the same time as it arrives on Xbox One. Furthermore, the game will also support cross-platform play across both systems. The move is part of a wider bringing together of the PC and Xbox environments that will feature as …
Read More »Lionhead Incubation shares developer experiments
Initiative gives developers a chance to build fresh prototypes
Read More »Fable Anniversary gets Steam release
A coded message hidden in a new trailer has teased the release date for Fable Anniversary. Developer Lionhead confirmed the title was headed to PC last week, but also revealed its release date was left somewhere in the trailer. That comes in the form of a binary message, which appears …
Read More »VIDEO: Fable Anniversary heading to PC
Lionhead has (more or less) confirmed a PC release for Fable Anniversary. That’s according to the video below which, while not outright announcing the release, pretty much confirms things. An E3 announcement seems likely. The video’s blurb reads: Since launching Fable Anniversary on Xbox 360, we’ve been inundated with requests …
Read More »Fable Anniversary lead designer leaves Lionhead
The lead designer for Fable Anniversary has departed Lionheadafter over seven years at the studio. Ted Timmins, who joined the Guildford studio full-time in 2007, said he has taken the tough decision” to leave over several messages on Twitter. This was a really tough decision, as I’ve had such an …
Read More »Lionhead’s Fable Anniversary lead designer departs
Ted Timmins spent more than seven years at the Guildford studio and worked on the original Fable
Read More »Molyneux: Fable III was a trainwreck
Famed UK developer Peter Molyneux has admitted that 2010 RPG Fable III fell well short of his expectations. I think Fable III was a trainwreck,” the former Lionhead boss told Develop. It was built to be much bigger than what it was constrained to be and eventually ended up as. …
Read More »Lionhead transforming into a ‘games-as-a-service’ studio
The upcoming Fable Legends is the first step in a process that is transforming Lionhead into a games-as-a-service studio” according to its new boss. John Needham, a veteran of Gazillion Entertainment and Cryptic, was named as Peter Molyneux’s successor at Lionhead in April of last year. Now he plans to …
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