What you need to know
- Following the announcement of his new game Masters of Albion during Gamescom 2024's Opening Night Live show, Peter Molyneux has been asked if it's a Fable game and if it's in the same universe.
- In an interview that appeared in Video Games Chronicle, Molyneux asserted that Masters of Albion shares a universe with Fable, but isn't a Fable game.
- Molyneux co-founded Fable's original developer Lionhead Studios, but left the studio in 2012 a few years before Microsoft shuttered it in 2016. Fable is still a Microsoft property, and a Fable reboot coming out in 2025 is in development at Playground Games. It will be a first-party Xbox and Windows PC exclusive.
- Molyneux claims that because Albion is a historical term for Great Britain, it can't be copyrighted. However, he's ultimately unsure if that reasoning will hold up in a legal dispute.
