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Lionhead Studios Limited was a British video game developer founded in July 1997 by Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley, Tim Rance, and Steve Jackson. The company is best known for the Black & White and Fable series. Lionhead started as a breakaway from developer Bullfrog Productions, which was also founded by Molyneux.
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Fable is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.Set in the fictional world of Albion, Fable represents the first new installment in the franchise since Lionhead Studios ' s Fable: The Journey in 2012.
The following year Lionhead released the games they had been developing at their main studio, Black & White 2 and business simulation game The Movies, neither of which were as successful as the company's first two titles. Lionhead had financial difficulties as a result, and was purchased by Microsoft Game Studios in 2006. [1]
Since Microsoft's first acquisition in 1986, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. The company purchased more than ten companies a year between 2005 and 2008, and it acquired 18 firms in 2006, the most in a single year, including Onfolio, Lionhead Studios, Massive Incorporated, ProClarity, Winternals Software, and Colloquis.
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Darkside Game Studios: Microsoft: Project Knoxville: A survival-based game announced in 2015 for the Xbox One, the game was cancelled the following year after Microsoft decided to close its developer, Press Play. [17] Press Play: Microsoft: Scalebound: An RPG collaboration between developer PlatinumGames and publisher Microsoft announced at E3 ...
Big Blue Box Studios – Founded by Bullfrog programmers Simon and Dene Carter, and Ian Lovett (who worked on Magic Carpet and Dungeon Keeper), Big Blue Box Studios were "very close" to Lionhead Studios, and the two companies merged. [11] 22cans – Founded in 2012 by Molyneux after he left Lionhead.