Over at Kotaku UK, Keza MacDonald reported on how Fable Legends took down Lionhead. It’s an in-depth look at why Lionhead was both an innovative studio and one Microsoft was willing to risk. Give it a read!
An Inside Look At How Lionhead Collapsed
Two months ago, in a stunning and surprising move, Microsoft shut down the renowned British studio Lionhead. Now, details have emerged about how it happened: in short, Fable Legends cost too much money, and nobody really wanted to make it.
Fable Legends shut down today. People who bought items in the game via microtransactions should be be getting refunds sent to their linked Xbox or Windows Store accounts. The in-development, free-to-play multiplayer game was the last thing made by legendary British game studio Lionhead.
Microsoft Cancels Fable Legends, Mentions 'Proposed Closure' of Iconic Game Studio Lionhead
Microsoft has cancelled the latest Fable game and has announced plans to close Lionhead, the legendary studio behind the Fable franchise.
This may shock you, but Fable Legends isn’t coming out in 2015—the free-to-play online game has been delayed and the open beta will now start this spring.
Fable Legends is Indeed Free-to-Play – And it's Not a Bad Thing
To be honest, the first time I ever saw Fable Legends – Lionhead’s 4v1 multiplayer remix of Fable, due out later this year – I could have made a confident educated guess that it would be free to play.
Fable Legends Will Let Xbox One And PC Gamers Play Together
At today's Windows 10 event, Microsoft and Lionhead Studios showed off the ability for Xbox One and PC users to play with (or against) one another across platforms in Fable Legends. The company didn't mention whether this feature would be coming for any other games.
Fable Legends' Four Versus One is a Lot of Fun
Fable Legends is one of those games that doesn't quite make sense until you get your hands on it. Fable is such an intrinsically single-player experience for a lot of us that imagining it as a co-op action game requires some mental gymnastics. Once I had a controller in my hands and four other people around me,…
Fable: Legends Is Sounding Like An Xbox One MMO
In an interview on Games Industry International posted yesterday, Lionhead studio head John Needham outlined the developer's big-picture plans for Fable: Legends, its upcoming Xbox One exclusive title. According to Needham:
The Next Fable Is Called Fable Legends
There's a new Fable! Lionhead Studios is working on an exclusive new entry in its action role-playing series.
