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Fable (Fable)

26/08/2004

It feels as if we've been waiting a long time for Fable. First announced three years ago at Microsoft's X01 press shindig (where it was called Project Ego), Lionhead's Peter Molyneux promptly declared it to be "the greatest RPG ever". While Molyneux today admits that "really, we just had a few concept sketches and a very basic demo of a hero standing there... I'm just an idiot, I just can't help blurting out games", recent indications are that the game will indeed be one of the finest ...

5 reasons real life should be like Fable II... (Fable II)

3/12/2008

And a couple of reasons it really shouldn't be. A photo guide to life under Lionhead's rules. ...

Fable II: Kinkiest Achievements ever? (Fable II)

21/10/2008

You cheated on your wife with a group of strangers – 5 points! ...

Faces of Good and Evil in Fable II (Fable II)

17/10/2008

Next week, you make a choice. Will you live life as a pure and noble hero, or as a vile and dastardly anti-hero? Will you smile at children, offer help to villagers and stay monogamous to your spouse? Or will you scream at children, offer severed trophy heads to villagers and engage in orgies with everyone but your spouse? In this exclusive interview, we chat with the art director on Fable II about how the game determines all of these vast and dramatic transformations. We’ve also got brand new, exclusive artwork to show you just how much is at stake. ...

Interview: Peter Molyneux opens up about Fable 2 (Fable II)

17/09/2008

The Lionhead honcho and all-round gaming legend talks Fable 2, videogame erotica, and why Americans love destroying the planet. ...

Fable 2 - interview (Fable II)

13/05/2008

We recently travelled down to Lionhead's Guildford HQ to see how the epic sequel to Fable is shaping up. You can check out our impressions here, and read on to see what an enthusiastic-as-ever Peter Molyneux had to say...

The scale of Fable 2's world is huge compared to the first game. We're sick of mentioning it, but the first thing that came to mind was the jump to GTA IV's Liberty City...

Molyneux: The first thing we did ...

GC 09: Fable III trailer, mega-facts and... Natal? (Fable III)

19/08/2009

Lionhead creative director Peter Molyneux used this morning's Microsoft Gamescom conference as a platform to announce Fable III. And, in true Molyneux fashion, he spent a good 30 minutes talking up the game, promising an experience with tougher choices, wider consequences and a generous selection of new game mechanics. So, what can we expect from the third instalment of Lionhead's fantasy RPG? For starters, point your eyes at the Gamescom ...

Turning back the clock on Fallout (Fallout)

16/12/2008

So, not happy with Fallout 3? If so, you’re crazy. Game of the year, in my not-so-humble opinion.But even though this irradiated epic is one totally fine modern RPG, loaded with the actiony, first-persony stuff that you just have to have in the post-Oblivion era, the new game is worlds apart from its predecessors, released by Interplay in the 1990s. Wake up from a decade-long coma and you’ll wonder what happened to the isometric ...

Fallout is a good old game (Fallout)

25/09/2008

Visions of Deathclaws dance in the heads of RPG fans as they anxiously snooze in anticipation of the October 28 release of Fallout 3. Will series devotees consider it too different from the classic RPGs that spawned it? The original Fallout RPGs were modest commercial successes compared to their swords and sorcery contemporaries such as Baldur’s Gate; will developer/publisher Bethesda be able to replicate the blockbuster success it ...

Gaming’s filthiest bathrooms (Fallout 3)

16/10/2009

We’ve murderised millions of men, killed countless cuddly animals and run over a nursing home’s worth of OAPs. But nothing has ever unhinged us like the computer crappers in the following beastly bathrooms. Unhygienic, grim and often smeared in the sort of bodily fluids you’d associate with Kill Bill rather than the can these are the filthiest game bathrooms we’ve ever seen.

Silent Hill 3

In a tight bind, when ...

Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta - review (Fallout 3)

21/08/2009

We’re not game designers, but if we were making a DLC pack about alien abduction set in the universe of Fallout 3 we wouldn’t make the following four dumb errors... ...

Fallout 3: Point Lookout review (Fallout 3)

14/07/2009

We’ll level with you; Broken Steel partially excepted, we’ve been mightily disappointed with the Fallout 3 downloadable content (DLC) on offer thus far. The fresh content – for one reason or another – simply hasn’t resonated, possessing neither the grandiose questing of Oblivion’s Knights of the Nine nor the diverse fantasy universe of the Shivering Isles. ...

Top 10 Fallout 3 mods (Fallout 3)

1/07/2009

One of the great things about Bethesda is that the developer allows for open modding of its games (sorry 360 and PS3 people, this is for the PC crowd only). This takes your $50 game and turns it into its own little virtual play set. ...

Video: Fallout 3 is full of idiots (Fallout 3)

22/06/2009

Fallout 3 is a superb game. So superb, in fact, anything in it that's less than brilliant sticks out like a third thumb. And, sadly, that's most apparent in the human characters. That's right, Fallout 3 is chock full of idiots. But don't just take our word for it - here's the evidence ...

Fallout 3: Broken Steel review (Fallout 3)

28/05/2009

We could tell that Fallout 3 was a great game by how annoyed we were by the abrupt ending. We wanted to keep adventuring in its enormous world with the character that we’d come to love, and earn rewards for doing so rather than banging my head against the level 20 cap. ...

GR Asks: How do devs decide the size and price of DLC? (Fallout 3)

29/04/2009

Welcome to GR Asks, our weekly Q&A with the games industry that answers questions submitted by YOU. Is there something game-related you’ve never seen addressed? Message GRAsks and we may just get it answered! ...

Fallout 3: The Pitt (Fallout 3)

13/04/2009

You have to hand it to Bethesda – they’ve choosen a part of the US that really lends itself to surviving a nuclear apocalypse seemingly unscathed. That, and getting the designers of The Pitt to actually play Fallout 3 all the way through, so they could get a feel for what people might want to play. ...

Gaming's big-ass booms! (Fallout 3)

11/02/2009

There are two types of gamers: the ones who love explosions, and the ones who love explosions in 1080p at 60 fps. Whether you’re a fan of shooters or strategy games, 8-bit or HD, we still all share the common appreciation of a good bang (ha, you WISH!). To show our love of all things that go BOOM, we’ve collected some of videogames' most epic explosions and set them to a bangin’ soundtrack. ...

The most superior superior races (Fallout 3)

5/02/2009

Don’t get too comfortable, puny human. You may be perched high on your planet’s food chain right now, but it won’t last forever. There are plenty of races waiting for their chance to assimilate you into their culture, usually by killing you. ...

Which create-a-character is best for making Obama? (Fallout 3)

30/01/2009

Barack Obama. The most important politician in a generation. A peerless orator. Winner of a historic election. And exceedingly effin hard to recreate in every create a character mode we could find. You’d think the current leader of the free world’s unassuming features would be easy to make with the plethora of chin, forehead and septum sliders most games now have. Wrong.

Not only did we fail to craft convincing Obamas, we ...