Playground Hires Former Lionhead Producer to Work on Fable - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 February 2022 / 2,359 Views
Lionhead Studios was a British video game developer best known for developing the Fable series, as well as Black & White. The studio was shut down in 2016.
It was announced in Summer 2020 that Forza Horizon developer Playground Games is working on a new entry in the Fable series.
Amie Loake, who worked at Lionhead Studios from 2013 to 2016 as a software test engineer on Fable Anniversary and worked on Fable Legends, announced via Twitter she has been hired by Playground Games to work on the new Fable game as a Senior Producer.
"I'm very happy to announce that next month I will be joining Playground Games on the Fable team as a Senior Producer! I'm so excited to be part of bringing this franchise, which is so close to my heart, to the new generation. I hope we can make my fellow Lions proud," said Loake.
I'm very happy to announce that next month I will be joining @WeArePlayground on the #Fable team as a Senior Producer! I'm so excited to be part of bringing this franchise, which is so close to my heart, to the new generation. I hope we can make my fellow Lions proud ♥️ pic.twitter.com/vashmy5qv0
— Amie (@Mrs_Spuddles) February 16, 2022
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Smart move!
Ok, that's moving in the right direction. People were saying they were hyped for this new Fable, despite being a completely different development studio (which has only made racing games) with no connection to the originals. At least now we know there's some connective thread between this new game and the old ones.
agree 100% - encouraging
Yupp. But let's be honest the studio has one good pedigree. This is the first time since the first entry since I'm genuinely interested to see how the game turns out.
Hey, it worked for Guerrilla Games. I still have some faith that Playground can put out a solid RPG.
I see no reason why they won't put out a good rpg. IMO if there is one studio that could branch out and hit gold in a different genre, it's them.
Makes sense to bring people that were core of the past games.
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