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Lionhead Creative Hirector and "father" of the Fable franchise, Peter Molyneux, has admitted that the last iteration in the role-playing series, Fable III, had some issues, largely stemming from the short and complicated development process.
Microsoft's Fable franchise has had its ups and downs, but the quirk... |
29 June 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Video game developer Lionhead has voiced its opinion that the existence of a secondary market for used games for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft (and presumably for the PlayStation 3 from Sony) is far more of a threat to video gaming than the piracy that assaults the PC market. Matt West, who is a combat designer workin... |
18 May 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Lionhead, as the developer, and Microsoft Game Studios, as the publisher, have announced that the upcoming PC version of the action and role-playing game Fable III will be sold through the Steam digital distribution platform from Valve in addition to the Games for Windows Marketplace.
The game will be launched on ... |
22 April 2011
06:49 GMT |
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One of the leading developers working at studio Lionhead on the PC-based version of the action and role-playing mix Fable III has said that his team is determined to make sure that the release is more than just a simple port and takes advantage of the exclusive feature of the platform.
Josh Atkins, who is the lead... |
14 April 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Fable III is getting ready for its PC release this May, so Lionhead, its developer, and Microsoft, its publisher, have now revealed the minimum and recommended system specifications.
Fable III, after appearing last year on the Xbox 360, and being promised time and time again for the PC, is finally getting ready to... |
1 April 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Microsoft has made a lot of noise recently about refocusing on PC gaming, relaunching Games for Windows Live and finally getting Fable III, which was supposed to be a simultaneous PC and Xbox 360 release, on the old gaming platform.
And the man at Microsoft that is in charge of PC gaming says that the company is l... |
23 March 2011
10:45 GMT |
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Lionhead, as the developer, and Microsoft, as the publisher, have announced that their action role-playing mix Fable III will be getting additional downloadable content, called “Traitor's Keep,” set to be launched on the Xbox Live Marketplace on March 1 in all territories, with the price point set at... |
25 February 2011
05:02 GMT |
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It's hard being a PC gamer these days, but most of the stalwarts who cannot imagine completely moving their hobby to consoles and handhelds any time soon have learned to live with things like delayed release dates, mostly motivated by the threat of piracy, and with missing downloadable content, motivated by lack... |
15 January 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware manufacturer Microsoft has announced that it plans to release Fable III on the PC at some unspecified point in the future and that Age of Empires Online is still in development but has also unveiled plans for new releases on the Xbox Live and on its Windows 7 powered series of phones... |
7 January 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Developer Lionhead has again sparked hopes for those who are still waiting to see Fable III, the mix between adventure and role-playing game, released on the PC, with a message that suggests that a positive message could be delivered soon.
A Twitter message coming from the official account of Lionhead reads, &ldqu... |
6 January 2011
13:51 GMT |
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After many complaints from gamers, Lionhead, the studio behind the recent Fable III, has finally issued the first patch for the role playing game, promising to fix many of the issues encountered by the players.Lionhead admitted a few weeks ago that it is working in order to fix all of the problems reported by Fable I... |
1 December 2010
08:00 GMT |
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Lionhead has released a list of problems with its latest release, Fable III, that it plans to address with a new patch saying that gamers who are playing the mix between action and adventure set in the land of Albion will have a better experience soon.The new patch will fix issues with spawning all through the game a... |
24 November 2010
16:31 GMT |
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The PC version of role playing game Fable III is still in development at Lionhead Studios, and gamers shouldn't worry about the title being canceled or anything like that, at least according to the studio's Twitter account.Fable III has already been launched on the Xbox 360 console, and even if it has quite... |
18 November 2010
03:07 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its slimmed down sales figures for the month of October on the United States market and in a surprising development the basketball simulation NBA 2K11 from publisher Take Two has managed to emerge as the best seller in video game sales, beating out the analyst favorite Medal of Honor and th... |
17 November 2010
05:32 GMT |
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An analyst watching the video game industry has stated that video game sales for the month of October in the United States will actually see an increase over the same period of 2009, mainly powered by the release of Medal of Honor, the first person shooter from DICE, Danger Close and Electronic Arts, and Fallout: New... |
16 November 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Fable III, the latest addition to Microsoft's popular RPG saga, will get a new add-on pack, in the form of the Understone Quest Pack DLC, which will arrive on November 23 on Xbox Live.Fable III was just released at the end of October, and, at the moment, is plagued by quite a lot of glitches, as highlighted by t... |
16 November 2010
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Football Manager 2011, from publisher SEGA and developer Sports Interactive, has debuted at the top of the United Kingdom video game chart, with fans of the beautiful game in the land that perfected it ready to take on their favorite team and lead it to titles that might elude it in real life.Football as a sport mana... |
11 November 2010
04:30 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, the creator of the Fable franchise and many other popular video games, admits that he hasn't really created a truly great game, at least in his eyes, up until now.Molyneux, the lead creative designer at Microsoft's Lionhead Studios in the UK, has talked about his activity as a games creator,... |
22 October 2010
02:25 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, who is the leader of the Lionhead development team and probably one of the most outspoken developer in the world of video games, has suggested that Fable III might not be the last title set in the world of Albion, saying that he will deliver more experiences as long as fans respond positively to the e... |
19 October 2010
03:13 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, the leader of developer Lionhead, has said that time is needed in order to create the defining gaming experience that could link the Kinect motion tracking system and the upcoming role playing action hybrid Fable III, just as sources talked about two of the ideas that were scrapped for the upcoming ga... |
18 October 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Fable III, one of the biggest Xbox 360 exclusive titles to appear this fall season, owes a lot to two of the biggest titles made exclusively for the Xbox's biggest rival, the PlayStation 3, in the form of Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.The console wars are always being waged by people representing eac... |
8 October 2010
02:51 GMT |
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Lionhead, the developer, and Microsoft, as publisher, have offered more information related to the supporting cast the the actors that will lend their voices to the upcoming action role playing game Fable III, which is set to arrive exclusively on the Xbox 360 on October 26.The entire cast includes:John Cleese as the... |
30 September 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is keen to reinvigorate the PC platform once more, in terms of gaming, as it has realized that it hasn't been really supporting the Windows platform as a viable gaming one, and favored the Xbox 360 console in front of the PC.Microsoft, as the developer of the main software for the PC, the Windows opera... |
27 September 2010
02:53 GMT |
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A complete list of Achievements for the Xbox 360 has been revealed for the upcoming action role playing game Fable IIII, which is set to be released exclusively on the Microsoft home console by developer Lionhead and publisher Microsoft.The complete list of Achievements includes the following, with Gamerscore values ... |
21 September 2010
05:37 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, the designer leading Lionhead in the development process for Fable III, has announced that the game will not be getting a complex weapons system that allowed for them to evolve depending on the actions of the players and to be traded via an online action system.The feature was one of the highlights wh... |
25 August 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has revealed its plans for this year's Gamescom, taking place between the 18th of August and the 22nd of August in Köln, Germany. Kinect will take the main stage, of course, but Age of Empires Online and a Microsoft Flight Simulator spin-off, both for the PC, have been announced. Gamescom is the l... |
17 August 2010
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Publisher Microsoft and developer Lionhead are offering a in game weapon for their upcoming action role playing game Fable III to all those who will pick up a novel set in the same universe, called Fable: The Balverine Order.Video game and movies have a pretty close relation nowadays and a lot of major titles like De... |
16 August 2010
07:51 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, the head of Lionhead, has declared that he hopes that Fablle III will sell five million copies when it launches in October. The game has been streamlined to welcome casual audiences, with a simpler user interface. Molyneux hopes that Fable III will be the best selling title in the series. Fable has so... |
12 August 2010
15:51 GMT |
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During last week developer Lionhead and publisher Microsoft have announced that they are launching a new Fable III related tool called the Village Maker, which will be accessible to all those interested in the world of Albion and will enable them to create a character, with a unique look and with a complex background... |
9 August 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Microsoft, as the publisher, and Lionhead Studios, as the developer, are announcing that those who have pre ordered Fable III, the upcoming role playing game that is set to arrive on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PC, will be able to access a new tool called the Fable III Village Maker. Players will be able t... |
4 August 2010
13:11 GMT |
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It was quite a surprise for the PC gaming community when Microsoft announced that the third installment in the Fable franchise will be released also on their platform of choice. Even more surprising was Microsoft's initial statement that both versions would launch at the same time on the 26th of October 2010, gi... |
3 August 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Fable III will have about 47 hours of recorded speech for its characters, up from about 36 hours for its predecessor. The increase is a sign of the commitment on the part of the team working on the role playing title at Lionhead to create a complex game world that draws in the player and makes him fell an emotional l... |
15 July 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Fable III is an ambitious project and something of an odd beast. It's part of one of the series that defined what a role playing game could do on the Xbox 360 but also confirmed as coming to the PC, spearheading an effort from Microsoft to expand its presence there. It's set to feature touch as one of the m... |
1 July 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux is one of those designers who design videogames for technologies that are not even in the planning stage. In 2001 his Lionhead Studio launched Black & White, a game which allowed the player to perform complex gestures with his hand (controlled through the mouse) in order to shape the world and comm... |
28 June 2010
05:16 GMT |
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The surprising release of Fable III on the PC may be the signal of better things to come from Microsoft for Windows-based gamers. Apparently, the company wants to promote Windows 7 also as a gaming medium and Fable III is just the first step in this direction, according to an internal Q&A sheet. Microsoft may be happ... |
22 June 2010
15:51 GMT |
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New details have emerged about the romance options of Fable III, as Peter Molyneux has recently declared that those who play the cooperative multiplayer component can, in fact, marry their avatars. Moreover, he says that, if players married someone from the Xbox Live friends list, then the two characters could have c... |
18 June 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Innovation will be the name of the game for the videogame industry in the coming years, according to Peter Molyneux, the legendary designer who is in charge of Lionhead studios and currently working on Fable III. He believes the avalanche of new concepts and technologies that are coming to the fore at the same time w... |
9 June 2010
13:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has finally delivered confirmation that Fable III will be coming to the old PC, through Games for Windows Live, while also announcing a new Collector's Edition package which, in a weird move, will only be offered to those who are planning on enjoying the role playing game on the Xbox 360 home console. ... |
26 May 2010
13:31 GMT |
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The box art for Fable III seems to suggest that the role playing game is heading to the PC platform, as well as the Xbox 360 home gaming console, when it comes out in the final months of this year or in the first half of 2011. Development duties for the action role playing videogame are handled by Lionhead Studios, a... |
17 May 2010
06:19 GMT |
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The so-called Second Christmas sales period, which saw publishers launch all those titles that would have crowded the fall launch season of 2009, with hits like God of War 3 and Mass Effect 2, is all but over and people are looking forward beyond the summer to the big releases of this year. And it seems that Halo: Re... |
4 May 2010
18:31 GMT |
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2010 is shaping up to be a great year for gaming. The economies worldwide are slowly rebounding, meaning that consumers probably have more disposable income to spend on consoles and on videogames, and gaming hardware is cheaper than ever for this current generation of devices, considering that the PlayStation 3, the ... |
1 March 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has been talking about Project Natal, the motion tracking solution it plans to deliver during the fall for its Xbox 360 home gaming console, as being the next natural evolution of videgaming. There are even some who are saying that the release of Natal and the motion tracking system from Sony (which might b... |
23 February 2010
14:41 GMT |
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Fable III received quite a few new details during Microsoft's X10 conference, and the pieces of news that keep pouring in seem to have a hard time stopping. We already know that the game plans to move out of the Teen rating aisle, by introducing a more graphic and violent combat, with blood-dripping swords and p... |
15 February 2010
05:18 GMT |
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A few days ago, Peter Molyneux announced that there was a big Fable III announcement coming our way, and it was one that would aggravate a lot of gamers. The day of Fable III announcements came and went, and, while several game details were revealed, it's hard to see which one of them is the controversial one th... |
12 February 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Fable II was one of the most interesting role-playing experiences on the Xbox 360 last year, and it's creator, the loquacious Peter Molyneux, has begun to talk about the next installment in the series and the features that players might expect from it. Speaking at the Annual Video Game Lecture session in London,... |
22 October 2009
07:39 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important gaming news from the last seven days. It's been a truly hectic week this one, as it was host to the GamesCon in Cologne, Germany, and has also seen the BlizzCon in Anaheim, California. Of course, a lot of announcement... |
22 August 2009
04:31 GMT |
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As you all know, the GamesCon conference is currently underway in Cologne, Germany. We're already in day two of the convention and there have already been some huge announcements made by Sony yesterday in regard to the PlayStation 3 Slim and new features for the PSP. But today was Microsoft's turn to revea... |
19 August 2009
05:41 GMT |
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It seems that Twitter is beginning to change the gaming world. Recently, it was used by a student to break the news that Lionhead was set to unveil its most recent project at E3, with the rumor indicating that the game would not be Fable III, but a totally new project.It seems that Andrew Lindsay, who is the animatio... |
23 April 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux is one of the most flamboyant game designers currently working in the industry. While he didn't really break the mold with his games, he did become famous for his uncanny ability to hype them up and make them sound like the best titles ever. The latest game from his studio, Lionhead, was Fable II... |
27 March 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Fable II was the biggest role playing game released for the Xbox 360 in 2008 and Microsoft and Lionhead are certainly looking for new ways to extend the franchise. After all, critics loved Fable II for the most part and it managed to sell no less than 2.6 million copies. These are strong signs that Fable III is alrea... |
16 March 2009
14:51 GMT |
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