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Read More »Playground Games reportedly working on new open-world Fable RPG
Life After Lionhead: Former members of the closed Fable studio, four months on
In April, one of the UK’s most iconic developers closed its doors for the last time. After almost 20 years and the creation of beloved series including Fable, Black & White and The Movies, Lionhead was no more. Four months on, we catch up with some of the studio's ex-employees
Read More »What we can learn from Fable Fortune’s Kickstarter
There were a few reasons for thinking that the Kickstarter campaign for Fable Fortune would do pretty well. For one, the free-to-play card game was associated with an iconic brand, Fable, and was being made by former Lionhead developers who, since the studio’s closure, have formed Flaming Fowl. Historically, this …
Read More »Flaming Fowl cancels Fable card game Kickstarter after securing investment
Team formed by ex-Lionhead devs had raised £59,000 of £250,000 goal before attracting anonymous backer
Read More »Ex-Lionhead devs crowdfunding a Fable digial card game
Fable Fortune was in development for 18 months, Microsoft backing the team trying to finish it
Read More »Former Lionhead devs launching Fable card game on Kickstarter
Though Fable studio Lionhead has been closed, the iconic RPG franchise is not dead yet. As reported by IGN, the developer was secretly developing a free-to-play Fable digital card game called Fable Fortune. The firm had been working on this for 18 months before the studio was shut. Now that …
Read More »‘Multiple buyers’ reportedly wanted to purchase Lionhead – but Microsoft wouldn’t let Fable go
’90 per cent’ of interested parties walked away when Microsoft refused to sell Fable IP, sources claim
Read More »Goodbye, Lionhead: studio officially closes
Fable, Black & White and The Movies developer originally founded in 1996 by Peter Molyneux
Read More »And so our story ends: Lionhead has officially closed
Fable makers Lionhead has officially closed. In March, Microsoft announced it would cancel Fable Legends and that it was in consultation with the Guildford studio over whether to close it or not. The consultation has ended and Lionhead will officially close. Microsoft said: "We have reached the decision to close …
Read More »Lionhead team could keep working on Fable Legends
Reports suggest some employees could form independent studio and continue developing free-to-play RPG
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