Spencer announced that Microsoft has established five teams, all tasked with creating new experiences on Xbox. Spencer stated Microsoft's investment in new teams will allow it to make 'bigger risks' and produce 'bolder worlds' when developing new Xbox only titles. So does that mean you can expect to play more action-oriented gameplay from this title? It's likely.Īt E3 this year, Microsoft's Phil Spencer noted that more games are coming for the Xbox One soon, with Microsoft investing heavily in new projects over the past few years.

The powers that be at Microsoft, Eurogamer said, were inspired to create a single-player experience by the success of Guerrilla Games’ Horizon: Zero Dawn. Platform: Xbox OnePublisher: MicrosoftDeveloper: PlayGround Studios (heavily rumoured)Genre: RPGRelease date: TBDįable 4 is the rumoured sequel to the much-loved Fable series, originally developed by Microsoft, that's appeared on the original Xbox and Xbox 360.Įurogamer has stated that Playground Games is likely to be making a Fable-themed open-world action role-playing game as a potentially spiritual successor to Fable 3.

Now that Microsoft has formally acknowledged this other project exists, does that mean we can expect to hear more about it soon? Here's hoping. 'While it’s a secret project and I understand that you and probably all gamers out there the thing they want to know most about, we just ask for a little bit of patience, but know that making sure our world-class team is working on a big, big exclusive game for our fans, is something they should be excited about.' 'That same leadership, that same talent pool is gonna be driving influence on this second project. 'I think if you look at Playground and their pedigree and the way that they approach game development, the sense of purpose they put behind it, the care, the thoughtfulness…The team is so talented, and just know that same leadership and the same thought process, what they’re bringing to Seasons and just totally innovating open-world gaming with Forza Horizon 4. Granted, that's not an awful lot of information, but it is confirmation that the company is working on something else aside from the popular racing game series. In an interview with DualShockers, Xbox games marketing general manager Aaron Greenberg confirmed that the team was working on a “big, big project.' The Microsoft E3 2020 press conference promises huge Project Scarlett reveals, one of which has the potential to be Fable 4 as a launch title for the next Xbox.Microsoft has formally acknowledged Playground Games other, non-Forza project. What’s interesting about this is that the next-generation Xbox hardware, currently codenamed Project Scarlett, is scheduled to release in that same timeframe. Although technology and the team working on it are very different at this point, the potential for a holiday 2020 release appears to be there.

A mere two years separated Lionhead Studios’ launch of Fable 2 and Fable 3, which is almost the same length of time that Fable 4 has been alleged to be in development now. The belief was fuelled as murmurings of a new action RPG being developed at the studio evolved into hirings, but when it failed to appear, rather than dashing expectations, people simply transitioned to expect a Fable 4 announcement during E3 2020 instead.ĪLSO: Why Half-Life: Alyx’s VR exclusivity is a great, bold choiceĪlthough there’s nothing official on the game just yet, if the UK developer has been working on a new Fable game for as long as rumors suggest, it might not be all that far from release. A lot of people expected Playground Games’ vision of the Fable franchise to be unveiled at E3 2019, but, unfortunately, that didn’t happen.

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