Your hopes are low – do you’ve any sources, or details? This weekend, a really choose group of FPS and action-RPG followers have been elated to find that Fable and Perfect Dark – two franchises which have gathered mud underneath Xbox’s stewardship – could have been getting ready for a comeback. Well, sorry crew. Microsoft have stepped in to verify that, no, you may’t imagine all the things you learn on Twitter.
If, like me, you’re unbearably on-line always, you’ll have seen the thrill across the two long-dormant Xbox properties began when The Verge’s Tom Warren found “placeholder” Twitter accounts for Fable and Perfect Dark, each with minor – if noteworthy – ties to the publishers.
I’m undecided who found the @fable and @PerfectDarkGame placeholders, however a Microsoft Xbox worker is following one, and the opposite is registered to a Microsoft e-mail handle 👀 pic.twitter.com/MagqUbPiZf
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 27, 2020
Unfortunately, information of the 2 sequence’ return has been drastically exaggerated. General supervisor of Xbox games advertising Aaron Greenberg slid into Warren’s replies to verify that no, this was merely a routine job to “secure social handles for our IP”.
The Perfect Dark account is a stranger story, although. After recognizing the Fable account, an unrelated Twitter consumer snagged the Perfect Dark deal with, admitting as such in a while their timeline. Microsoft artistic director Ken Lobb adopted the account. At the time of writing, it isn’t clear why – although the present proprietor of the PD account is for certain the comply with wouldn’t have occurred “if they didn’t have something in the works”.
With solely two entries on the Nintendo 64 and Xbox 360, Perfect Dark by no means discovered its option to PC. But Fable did – and whereas Fable Three was unceremoniously dropped from Steam with the loss of life of Games For Windows Live, Fable Anniversary (a Halo: Anniversary-style remake of the primary game) remains to be kicking about on Steam. While the remastered visuals are fairly naff, it’s an excellent game, too – a stable action-RPG populated completely by west-country accents.
While it was briefly a tentpole property for Microsoft, it appeared just like the pubs didn’t know what to do with it after Fable 3. Hopes of a correct, numbered sequel have been dashed for good when Microsoft shut down Lionhead, prematurely killing asymmetrical multiplayer entry Fable Fortunes. Rumours of a Fable four have been floating about for years, but it surely appears we could also be again to sq. one on that.
Still! Microsoft haven’t but had their huge not-E3 Xbox 20/20 showcase, at present deliberate for later this July. Is this some galaxy-brain double-bluff to maintain us all quiet earlier than the shock reveal, or am I studying approach, approach an excessive amount of into this? Check the guild– err, the positioning, for extra quests deets when that occasion kicks off subsequent month.
