Players want to be good guys.

Brian Fleming, president of Sucker Punch, the studio behind June's dark super-hero game "Infamous," didn't believe it.

He'd heard this from Peter Molyneux, the outspoken head of Lionhead Studios, who said that players of the Xbox series "Fable," tended to steer their characters toward the side of angels. Technically, they could have made their characters evil and gained just as many benefits. But Molyneux said players ultimately preferred to complete their adventure as a good person.
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31 Mar 2009

'Fable 2' Developers Tested Microphone-Control For Game's Dog

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360 - Fable II - 'Fable 2' Developers Tested Microphone-Control For Game's Dog

Gamers who played last fall's Xbox 360 hit "Fable II" were supposed to feel an emotional connection to the virtual canine that faithfully followed their hero throughout the game.

The dog was mostly self-sufficient - following, leading and fighting on its own - though it did do tricks with the press of a button.

What if players could talk to that dog?
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31 Mar 2009

Ruffian Games' Last Call for New Recruits

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360 - Fable II - Ruffian Games' Last Call for New Recruits

Ruffian Games have put out a final call for developers to join their merry band on a journey to make awesome games. Having established their studio in 2009 Ruffian's recruitment drive is near an end and the places remaining are few.
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30 Mar 2009

Fable II, LBP, GRID Receive Kudos in Parliament

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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

1UP GDC 2009: Molyneux Shows Lionhead's Design Experiments

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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

GDC: Live from Peter Molyneux's session

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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

New Fable 2 DLC "See the Future"

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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

Molyneux: New DLC Coming to Fable II Very Soon, Fable III Hints

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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

Lionhead: Fable wrecked dev's lifes, Fable II didn't

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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

Original Fable is this week's Deal of the Week on XBL

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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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