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Lionhead luminary sheds light on a new creative process as he attempts to make his greatest game yet
Read More »Molyneux to receive BAFTA Fellowship
Develop Legend Award winner to receive academyâ??s highest honour
Read More »Molyneux awarded Lifetime Achievement gong
Develop Legend Award winner to receive new honour
Read More »Molyneuxs digital dream
Almost a year after Fable II, Microsoft and Lionhead re-released the game in episodic chunks over Xbox Live. And the game’s creative director Peter Molyneux feels digital is the way to reach an even broader audience. Retail will get you to 70 or 80 per cent of the people who …
Read More »Why Molyneux always buys his own games
The staff at GAME in Guildford will serve a rather surprising customer on Friday, October 29th. They may not know who he is, but you will. It’s development legend Peter Molyneux, and he is there to buy his own video game, Fable III. Molyneux performs this ritual every time one …
Read More »Molyneux: Ive never made a great game
Peter Molyneux is a surprisingly critical man. Fable II is a great game, it has sold over 3.5 million units at retail and has a Metacritic score of 89. But during an interview with MCV, Molyneux highlights elements of it as ‘crap’, ‘gimmicky,’ and ‘a terrible crime’. And he invites …
Read More »Molyneux: I’ve made good, not great, games
Microsoft development legend yearns to make a 5m+ seller and join the â??triple-A' elite
Read More »Dont judge Kinect on its launch software
Microsoft’s European head of Game Studios Peter Molyneux has urged people not to judge Kinect by its early software and instead wait until developers have had the chance to truly get to grips with the device. We can do core games with it, we can do totally immersive games,” Molyneux …
Read More »Milo presents thematic challenge for MS
Ambitious developer Peter Molyneux has made the brave admission that developing a game about the player’s relationship with a young boy presents particular challenges thanks to the very public fear about paedophilia. When asked by USA Today about the process needed to get the game into a finished, releasable state, …
Read More »Fable III ditches Kinect support
It seems that upcoming RPG Fable III will not now support Xbox 360’s motion camera Kinect, delivering a big blow to the peripheral’s hardcore-audience credentials. It was announced in October 2009 that the game would include some sort of Kinect functionality. Since then the Lionhead title had been more or …
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