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‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable

The distinctively British RPG is returning courtesy of the makers of Forza Horizon – with comedy talent such as Richard Ayoade and Natasia Demetriou voicing sweary characters. We had our first play and spoke to its developer

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Fable director says they aren't 'scared of other big games' except one—it's GTA 6, in case you were living under a rock

"There's just one that I'm happy to avoid entirely."

PC Gamer

Fable director "happy to go toe-to-toe" with heavy hitters like Persona and God of War, but GTA 6 is a beast he's "happy to avoid entirely"

Playground Games is confident in its RPG reboot

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Fable deserves a "chance to shine" – which is why Xbox should delay it one final time

Fable is one of my most anticipated RPGs of 2027, but it deserves a clearer release window

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"There has to be a reason for people to buy an Xbox": Making sense of Microsoft's messy return to console exclusivity

The Saturday Read | Senior leaders across Xbox detail why the platform is returning to console exclusivity, and explain why Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are only the beginning

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If you kill every Fable NPC, Playground Games says the world will 'stay empty for some time' before being repopulated by 'full NPCs'

Playground Games has confirmed that if Fable players, for some reason, decide to kill every NPC in a settlement, they will repopulate over time.

TechRadar

We spoke to three Xbox Game Studio teams about exclusivity, and got two very different answers

The Coalition believes making Gears of War: E-Day an Xbox exclusive was the best decision, but not all Xbox Game Studios teams are aligned on the approach to console exclusivity.

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Fable will feature over 150,000 lines of dialogue, Playground Games confirms — 'We've had multiple studios set up running in parallel for over 1000 hours just this year alone, just recording VO'

Playground Games has said that more than 150,000 lines of dialogue have been recorded for Fable.

TechRadar

Fable delay was a "disappointment," Playground boss says, but avoiding GTA 6 can give the RPG "the attention this game deserves"

Mind you, February is also looking a bit stacked, but anyway

GamesRadar

Fable creator says it's 'a real shame' the reboot is dropping the horns-or-halo morality system

Peter Molyneux is an old school guy, and he likes old school systems.

PC Gamer

Fable developer Playground Games first spoke about "doing something" other than Forza Horizon back in 2017, and were quickly sold on the iconic RPG when it came up: "I could think of nothing else"

"The conversation around building a second team and doing something else, doing something different, was really about wanting to challenge ourselves"

GamesRadar

Playground Games' Fable has "kind of nicked" The Office's mockumentary-style interviews: "A lot of people assume we just did that for those trailers"

"I've never seen it in games before, but it allows you a way to really neatly tell a joke or drop a little bit of character detail"

GamesRadar

Fable's reboot doesn't have morality-based character morphing and fans are divided: "It's what helped set Fable apart from other Middle Ages Western RPGs"

Say goodbye to those devil horns and angelic halos

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Fable's new morality system is "entirely subjective" and "probably representative of how morality exists in the world that we live in today"

"We've pursued a much more shades of gray approach to morality"

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Fable lets you enter and even buy any building in its world because that was one of the "requirements that we took from the original games," dev says

Playground Games had to think about every building's interior and exterior

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Why Playground Games' ambitious open-world Fable reboot is a fresh start for the series: "This has to be Playground's Fable"

Big in 2026 | Playground Games has been wanting to do "something other than Forza" for 10 years, and the Fable reboot feels like a match made in Albion

PC Gamer

Fable is getting rid of the old games' horrible dog, who I hate

Headlines that are bound to make me popular, part one.

PC Gamer

The new Fable's morality system will live in 'shades of gray', which is a huge shift for a series where being too mean made literal devil horns grow out of your head

Everyone always calls me chicken chaser. Nobody asks why I chase chickens.

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Fable's "shades of gray approach to morality" directly ties into the RPG's living population, with a reputation system I can't wait to play with

How Fable's approach to morality will shape some of the RPG's biggest choice and consequence innovations

TechRadar

Fable director explains what makes the RPG a fairytale rather than a straight fantasy like The Witcher — 'Fairytales are intimate, they’re small stories about regular people... I think that is a brilliant description of what Fable really is'

According to Fable game director Ralph Fulton, the upcoming game will be an open-world fairytale, rather than a "grand and sweeping" fantasy story like The Witcher or Skyrim.

PC Gamer

Fable reboot devs aren't trying to make a Lionhead game, but one important hallmark will carry over because 'kicking chickens is classic Fable'

Is it right, or is it wrong, to kick a chicken?

PC Gamer

Fable has 1,000 'handcrafted' NPCs, and you can apparently marry every single one of them

Polygamy achievement unlocked?

GamesRadar

Fable head says "we can't try to make a Lionhead game," and the RPG reboot isn't fantasy either: "We all know what fantasy is – it's The Witcher, it's Skyrim, it's Lord of the Rings"

"Fairytale exists right at the opposite end of that spectrum"

GamesRadar

New Fable developer Playground "got a treasure trove of documents" from original creator Lionhead "that had been in storage," and one sums up the whole series in 5 words

Fable is very different today, but Playground studied the old ways

GamesRadar

Fable will let me romance nearly all of its 1000 NPCs "with a very few exceptions," lead says, and I can't wait to be a hero-turned-divorcee with two kids after orchestrating a turbulent love triangle

"You can talk to them, you can romance them, you can marry them. You can divorce them or be divorced by them"

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