The Xbox 360 first launched in 2005, and if you were fortunate enough to not encounter the ‘Red Ring of Death’ that the earlier consoles suffered from, then you were set for a good few years of gaming.
]]>Although gaming is a creative industry where, perhaps more than any other, it’s disingenuous to pin the success of any one product on a single individual, it’s extraordinarily hard to uncouple Peter Molyneux from the Fable series.
]]>Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 40 - The best game with the most juvenile feature.
]]>Something extraordinary happened over Christmas: I took my kids to see a big screen adaptation of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, starring Hugh Laurie and Emilia Clarke, who are Big Name Actors from Popular Things. This is significant, because it’s a Discworld novel. And Discworld has never quite become the juggernaut that it always felt like it ought. To my absolute shock and delight, it remained a story of Discworld in its translation to a CGI cartoon for children. It’s remarkably faithful to the book, which is just one in a series that’s dozens long. Rincewind and Twoflower even have brief cameos. I might have welled up at the sight of Terry Pratchett’s name in the opening credits, because I realised this was my kids’ first exposure to his wonderful mind, and vowed to encourage them to explore it further if they showed interest.
]]>Fable 2 and NBA 2K14 have been discounted over on Xbox Live as part of Microsoft's weekly run of deals.
]]>Fable Trilogy, which consists of Fable 2, Fable 3, and Fable Anniversary will be released in February, Microsoft has confirmed.
]]>Fable 2 has returned to Xbox Live's Games on Demand after an "isolated issue" caused the game to become unavailable through the service.
]]>Former Lionhead developer, James Duncan, has announced his new iOS game will be titled Rogue Star. It is currently in development at the studio he founded, RedBreast. He hopes the title will draw renewed interest from the public in the "much missed" space combat-trading genre. Details are still a sparse at the moment, but Eurogamer has one new shot of it through here. Still no date.
]]>Although the Microsoft-owned Lionhead is keeping quiet about Peter Molyneux's departure, ex-staffers have assured fans the Fable franchise is in no danger.
]]>Dreaming if you're ever going to get a PC version of Fable II? Dream on: Lionhead's said that there won't be such a conversion due to the developer now working on "new projects."
]]>Lionhead has an clear idea what the future holds for the next Fable, and it plans to make it stand "head and shoulders up," with any other developer in the industry.
]]>Fable is one of those franchises which evokes strong opinions in players, and Lionhead wants to hear yours.
]]>Yes. You read the title right. It's no longer free. For some anyway.
]]>Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux told attendees at his Fable III session at Develop earlier today that its prequel was "rushed".
]]>Microsoft's a whole list of panels and games that will be at ComicCon a week-and-a-half from now, including Halo: Reach, Fable III, Gears of War 3 and Kinect.
]]>Fallout 3 and Fable II have both hit Games on Demand for Xbox 360.
]]>Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has said the release of Fable II Episodic was a "successful" one.
]]>Amazon's offering a third game free when you buy two Platinum Hits for Xbox 360, provided it's an equal or lesser price then the two you've already picked.
]]>Microsoft's announced it's added Fable II and Halo Wars to the Classics catalogue for 360.
]]>Necromancers, crazy ghost hobs and the return of Theresa are just some of the things the developers chat about in the latest and last Fable 2 video diary from Lionhead.
Just in case you want to remain slightly surprised with See the Future's content, don't watch after the break.
But how can you not? It's Fable 2 and you love it.
Thanks, Joystiq.
]]>See the Future, the next batch of Fable II DLC, will cost 560 MS Points and will include the "Ghosts of the Snowglobe Quest," the "Cursed Knight Quest," new items and a bunch of other stuff.
There's a press release after the break. It's out in May.
]]>Lionhead has released a set of six new screenshots of Fable II's Knothole Island, released yesterday on Xbox Live for 800 MS points.
We've had a little go on it, and suffice to say we're very impressed so far.
Check out the pics after the break.
By Mike Bowden
]]>Shacknews for these. As per headline, the two images show some rather special looking armour.
However, it is worth noting that although pretty, up until now Fable II armour and clothing has been purely superficial, offering the wearer no added protection.
Also, Lionhead has released a new dev diary about the making of Knothole Island, which is of course due out on January 13.
After the break.
By Mike Bowden
]]>Lionhead's Fable II is the Daily Telegraph's game of the year, leading a list of 50 potential candidates.
The UK paper put Fallout 3 at second and LittleBigPlanet at third. GTA IV managed a paltry seventh: probably wasn't the right sort, if you catch my drift, sah.
Get the full top 50 after the break. Thanks, MCV.
]]>Richard Ham, Fable II's lead designer, has joined Splash Damage as creative director.
He'll be put to work in charge of the design team on the developer's Bethesda project.
“I’m really excited to be at Splash Damage," said Hame. "Their pedigree in shooters is absolutely fantastic and when I met the team and saw what they were working on, I knew I had to be part of it.”
Press release after the link.
]]>Lionhead's confirmed the imminent arrival of a large patch for Fable II, saying the update is now in testing.
To see what it fixes, hit the link. Beware: there may be some spoilers there.
]]>GameStation's confirmed yesterday's rumour that Fable II has now dropped to £20 for the next week.
It's actually even cheaper than that: buy it online for £19.57.
Press release after the link.
]]>UK retailer GameStation is to cut the price of Fable II to £20 in a promotion next week, if pictures of promotional leaflets we've just been sent are to be believed.
We've been advised that this may go live this Friday "if they feel like it," so keep your eyes peeled tomorrow if you fancy getting yourself a copy for a song.
See the full image after the break.
]]>Lionhead's confirmed that there's going to be no big Fable news this week, despite last week's promise.
"I know what you're thinking, but no, I'm afraid this is not the BIG news that got me (and most of you) so excited last week," said a staffer on the Lionhead blog.
]]>Microsoft focused squarely on the fact it had sold almost twice the amount of PS3s with Xbox 360 in the US last month in its post-NPD statement last night, issuing a press released titled, "Xbox 360 outsells PS3 nearly 2:1 in October, Fable II debuts at #1".
The company said Fable II, topping the chart in America last month, has now sold more than 1.5 million units worldwide.
Gears of War 2 and the impending release of NXE were also highlighted.
Full thing after the break.
]]>Lionhead has updated its blog announcing that the Fable II online co-op patch is finished and will be available for download when the RPG launches this Friday.
]]>After the break. It does look good, no doubt, and indications in the last few days from the UK press suggest it's going to review very well.
It's out later this month. Take a look.
]]>After the break. It goes without saying that this is a "spoiler," so don't watch if you want to stay clean. It's the first full first minutes of play from the Polish version of Fable II, and it does pretty much give the game away, so to speak.
Looks lovely, though. Watch if you dare. Game's out at the end of this month.
]]>On IGN. The 360 RPG looks in fine form for its release later this month, what with its spells and swords, and whatnot.
Take a look.
]]>After the break. There's no gameplay to speak of, which is a shame, but it does get the theme of choice across quite well we think.
Game's out later this month. We're all giddy with excitement.
]]>After the break. It's Peter and pals talking about jobs, money, clothes and getting married in Fable II. There's a lot of detail in there about expressions and personality, and some bits about making evil kids.
Game's out on October 24.
]]>After the break. It's got Russell Shaw, head of music at Lionhead, talking about Fable II's audio, footage of the orchestra playing stuff from the game and loads more. Interesting stuff.
Take a look.
]]>Speaking to Videogamer, Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has claimed that Fable II's online co-op has only been possible because of the way Live's structured, and that PS3's online offering isn't as "mature" as 360's.
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