
Fable, Black & White, and Dungeon Keeper developer Peter Molyneux is someone who's "absolutely motivated by praise," so he was really happy when Microsoft offered to acquire the studio he co-founded: Lionhead.
"Lionhead was 350 people, with a burn rate that meant I had to change my underpants twice a day, and these escalating costs of development," Molyneux remembered of the studio before it was purchased in 2006, speaking to the latest issue of Edge Magazine.