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30 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - Fable II, LBP, GRID Receive Kudos in Parliament BeefJack writes: "It's not often that a politician sings the praises of the video game industry, which is why a big deal should be made of it when it does happen.

Edward Vaizey, a Conservative MP, has requested the motion that the UK government recognise the importance of the UK Video Game Industry and in particular those games created by UK developers."
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28 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - 1UP GDC 2009: Molyneux Shows Lionhead's Design Experiments 1UP writes: "Large-scale game development might have a certain structure to it, but at the Game Developers Conference, you often hear stories about a game progressing along just fine until some jackass comes in towards the end and pushes for some neat feature to be put in, which steals everyone's focus. Peter Molyneux admits he's one of those people, and as the founder of Lionhead, that was a particularly big problem in their first game, Black & White. When a journalist was interviewing him about the game, Molyneux got the idea to put in a realistic weather system. He got it into the game, but the game itself wasn't being worked on during that time; everybody was pitching in trying to get the weather right."
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27 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - GDC: Live from Peter Molyneux's session VG247: Why not? The Lionhead boss has already said he's not going to announce a new game at GDC this year, but he's always worth watching.
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27 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - New Fable 2 DLC "See the Future" Adrian P from AnalogHype reports: GDC 09 is filled with more surprises. Lionhead announced the "See the Future" DLC will be released within the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for more information.
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26 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - Molyneux: New DLC Coming to Fable II Very Soon, Fable III Hints Kotaku writes: "See the Future, the next downloadable content from Lionhead Studios for Fable II, will be hitting in weeks, Peter Molyneux told Kotaku today.

"The next DLC comes out in the spring," he said. "We're in the spring now so don't think months, think more like weeks. It's called See the Future".
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18 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - Lionhead: Fable wrecked dev's lifes, Fable II didn't OXM UK writes: "Peter Molyneux has admitted that Fable 1 "destroyed the team" that worked on it, while the sequel did not.

"If I'm honest, on Fable we just burnt people's lives; we destroyed the team," Molyneux admits. "Week after week, month after month, they worked 50, 60, 70, 80 hour weeks. It destroyed their lives and destroyed their marriages. You just can't do that anymore..."
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16 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - Original Fable is this week's Deal of the Week on XBL Announced on Major Nelson's podcast, the next Deal of the Week will be the Xbox Original Fable.

Available for download for only 800 points instead of 1200 points, Fable 1 will be only available at the special price for the week of March 16th.
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12 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - New Fable II DLC coming Via CVG: "We are working on new DLC for Fable II," says Lionhead
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12 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3 lead ELAN nominations There's little doubt as to the four key titles that look set to dominate proceedings at this year's ELAN Awards, with Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, Gears of War 2 and Fable II all nominated in the majority of the nine categories.

In with a chance of winning seven awards apiece are Valve's zombie shooter Left 4 Dead and Bethesda's dark future RPG Fallout 3, while Epic's FPS sequel Gears of War 2 and Lionhead's fantasy adventure Fable II are both up for six awards.

In fact, of the nine categories - which each contain four nominations - those exact four will battle it out in four, while other prominent titles to be nominated just once include Crysis: Warhead, Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, Call of Duty: World at War and Too Human.

The awards, which also present prizes for the animation and visual effects industries, will take place in April and be hosted by the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, Tom Kenny.

The full list of categories and nominations is as follows:
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11 Mar 2009
360 News from N4G | Fable II
360 - Fable II - Fable II claims 'Action and Adventure' award at BAFTAs. Ve3tro writes: "Today, Xbox 360 and Lionhead Studios are thrilled to announce that the blockbuster "Fable II" claimed the prestigious accolade of "Action and Adventure" award at the Video Game BAFTAs, held last night in central London.

"For us the BAFTA's are one of the most important video games awards with its British and film association – our BAFTA for Fable II will take pride of place in our offices'' commented Peter Molyneux, Studio Director, Lionhead Studios. ''The team at Lionhead put a great deal of passion, hard work and care into making Fable II, so it is fantastic to get this kind of recognition from both fans and the judges.""
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