Fabled Style

At Summer Game Fest today, Xbox's new chief strategy officer Matthew Ball spoke about some of the company's big moves recently, including its strategy on exclusives and what's next for the company in the hardware space with Project Helix. He made these comments at The Game Business Live. "Reliable pipeline" of exclusives On the subject of exclusives, Ball said, "Everyone in the industry understands that exclusives are important," and Microsoft is no different. The first two console exclusives that Microsoft announced at the Xbox Games Showcase were Gears of War: E-Day this October and Clockwor

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The Fable reboot has more than 1,000 NPCs that players can interact with. Given this scale, and the fact that they all speak, people are naturally wondering how developer Playground was able to pull this off, and if some kind of artificial intelligence system was used. During a recent group Q&A attended by GameSpot at Summer Game Fest, Playground confirmed that there is "no generation involved in it" after being asked if the studio used an Arc Raiders-style text-to-speech AI system. "We've got a really fantastic cast of actors who have come in and recorded tons and tons of dialogue, which