Behind Closed Doors: A Developer's Tale

It wouldn't be a Fable preview if I wasn't at least a little bit wary of encouraging you to get your hopes up. But, forgive me, I'm going to. I've seen a good half hour of continuous gameplay and, although it comes with plenty of caveats, it really was fantastic. Playground Games' Fable reboot looks to be silly, crass, British, beautiful, systemic, and maybe a little overambitious. In other words it looks like Fable. Indeed few things are more Fable than promising the Moon, after all - 1,000 unique, romanceable, morality driven NPCs! Each with reactive personalities of their own! - and in turn

A new report claims that Microsoft is considering cancelling the upcoming Marvel's Blade game and closing its developer. According to The Verge, Microsoft is considering closing at least five studios, one of which is Arkane, the developer of the upcoming Blade game. The report said Blade was originally set to launch in 2026, but was delayed to late 2027 and is over budget. Earlier in June, a report said Marvel's Blade was not canceled, despite it being a no-show at the Xbox Games Showcase. The game was announced in 2023, but no gameplay footage has ever been released. https://www.youtube.com/w

French developer Asobo, creator of the Plague Tale series and the Microsoft Flight Simulator games, doesn't believe smaller teams need to use generative AI tools to compete with bigger development studios. Read more

Psychonauts developer Double Fine has responded to the reports of its potential closure with a single emoji.

Hitman and 007: First Light developer IO Interactive will close one of its studios and lay off an unknown number of staff, after Xbox pulled funding for an upcoming project.