#Fable 4 2016 series#

It is possible that the game has been in development since late 2016 or early 2017, and many of the assets are already created due to the cancelled Fable Legends. Now let’s hope that they can capture the child-like humor and art direction Lionhead managed to do so well.

Creating an RPG is a bit of a shift over what they’re typically accustomed to developing, but if the amount of care and detail they put into the Horizon franchise is put into Fable 4 (or reboot), there is no reason to be concerned. This is the great crew that brought us the Forza Horizon series, some of my favorite racing games of all time. It didn’t take long to figure out who he was talking about the developers behind some of the best games on the Xbox One in terms of quality - Playground Games. There’s nobody here in Brighton that could take on a task of that magnitude. Mmm ok, having no inside information, I totally know who’s building Fable 4 now. He has since deleted his Tweet, but once on the internet, always on the internet…. Lionhead Developer all but confirms it…Ī former Lionhead Developer tweeted that he figured out which studio is responsible for building Fable 4, and it was an interesting choice. The last full-on Fable game was Fable 3, released in 2010, Fable Legends never got out of beta, Lionhead Studios has closed down, but it appears there’s new life breathed into the Microsoft IP. This was back when it was still known as ‘ Project Ego.’ There have been a few years of uncertainty surrounding the Franchise. If Fable and other first-party exclusives go yet another year without a reveal, even after Xbox Game Studios' massive acquisition streak in 2018, it will be handing an easy victory to Sony for the second time in a row.Fable, one of Xbox’s most beloved franchises, introduced me to the Original Xbox in the early 2000’s. Sony announced late last year that it would be skipping its usual appearance at E3 this year, so the ball is squarely in Microsoft's court. With next-gen consoles waiting just over the horizon, Microsoft needs to bring the heat on the first-party title front to avoid being slaughtered in terms of hardware sales like it was this generation.

With the Mixer leak being so close to E3 2019, the odds of Fable IV's appearance at Microsoft's press conference just went way up. Knowing this and coupling it with the listing, and even following the franchise's Roman numeral numbering conventions, it seems pretty compelling that Fable IV is indeed Playground Games' long-rumored secret weapon.

#Fable 4 2016 series#

While Lionhead's last attempt at breathing new life into the series was with Fable Legends, an online multiplayer ARPG that was canceled when the studio failed in 2016, it's also known that the spinoff was narrowly decided upon over a sequel to the mainline franchise. Though its presence could potentially be in error, it's just about as likely that someone at Mixer could have jumped the gun on adding upcoming titles scheduled to be announced at E3 2019. Mixer provides a list of curated titles for streamers to auto-fill and select when setting their channel's current game, and apparently 'Fable IV' is now to be counted among that official list.

If what Redditor snow9876 has uncovered is valid, Fable fans have good reason to get excited. Related: Netflix is Coming to E3 2019, Will Talk Turning Originals Into Games However, hopes were reignited later that year at Gamescom when Xbox Game Studios General Manager Aaron Greenberg confirmed that Playground had a secret ' big, big exclusive' in the works. However, a new Fable was a notable absence at E3 2018, leaving fans to wonder if the earlier murmurs had been mistaken. It isn't a whole lot to go on, but recent nods to Fable 4's potential existence by Microsoft lend credibility to this online find.Įarly in 2018, rumors of Fable 4's development were spreading, and it was believed that Microsoft apparently had enlisted Forza Horizon's first-party developer Playground Games to continue where the epic fantasy franchise left off after Fable creator Lionhead Studios closed in 2016. Absent for almost a decade now, fans are thrilled at the prospect of the Fablefranchise finally making its return at E3 2019 after the game was listed on Mixer, Microsoft's dedicated streaming platform.