Although Microsoft has but to formally announce that a new Fable sport is within the works, increasingly more sources are popping out to substantiate there may be actually one in growth.
If you’ve not been following this new Fable thread, let’s begin kind the highest.
Playground Games, builders of the Forza Horizon collection, has been on a hiring spree since final 12 months, snatching up builders who beforehand labored on large open-world video games like GTA 5, and Metal Gear Solid.
The studio had beforehand mentioned it’s engaged on a non-racing sport, nevertheless it wasn’t till an Xbox Live API leak earlier this 12 months that we came upon the sport could also be Fable 4 – or no less than a brand new Fable.
We had no purpose to doubt the earlier reviews, however a brand new one from Eurogamer confirms that sure, a brand new Fable sport is in growth at Playground Games within the UK. Information remains to be slim, partly as a result of the sport may be very early in growth.
The report says that the brand new Fable will probably be a “character-focused, open-world action RPG”. Not actually shocking there, however good to see what path the following sport will probably be going. As to why Microsoft shuttered Fable creators Lionhead solely to to provide the IP to a brand new studio and greenlight a brand new Fable a 12 months later, sources say the success of Horizon: Zero Dawn has one thing to do with it.
Horizon, after all, being a brand new IP that did comparatively nicely for Sony, so Microsoft should have seen a chance to create an analogous sport for Xbox (character-drive, open-world) and the Fable IP was possible a high candidate.
Playground is alleged to be constructing a 200-person crew, with an enormous funding from Microsoft. The report signifies that the studio will probably be constructing the sport from scratch, so it doesn’t look we’ll be seeing belongings from the cancelled Fable Legends.
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