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Microsoft Finally Admits it Made a Mistake Closing ‘Lionhead Studios’
There was a time where Lionhead Studios represented one of the UK’s biggest gaming developers. Founded by Peter Molyneux following the sale of Bullfrog to EA, his idea was that creating a new independent company would allow his creativity to run wild without the constraints of having to meet the…
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Peter Molyneux Teases New Game
Peter Molyneux If you were to travel back in time around 10-15 years, Peter Molyneux was a thoroughly respected name in the gaming industry. Today, however, his tendencies to over-exaggerate products (or simply abandon them) have done much to tarnish the reputation of the man who (essentially) created some of…
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Peter Molyneux Thinks it Would be a Mistake to Discuss His New Game
Peter Molyneux has a bit of a history of overhyping his games, something that’s got him in a fair bit of hot water with his fans in the past, and it seems he’s learnt from his past mistakes. While work on his latest game “Legacy” is well underway, he’s being coy…
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Fable Developer Lionhead Studios Closed by Microsoft
Microsoft Studios has announced that it is closing Lionhead Studios, developer of the Fable series, and Denmark’s Press Play Studios, which was in the process of making Project Knoxville. The closure of Lionhead means that Fable Legends is now effectively dead. “After much consideration we have decided to cease development…
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Controversial Microtransactions Removed From Godus Wars
Peter Molyneux is one of the mistrusted game developers throughout history and it’s not unwarranted given the hugely disappointing releases during the last decade. Molyneux has forged a terrible reputation for promising so much and failing to deliver! For example, Fable 3 was a pretty hollow experience and didn’t have…
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Peter Molyneux’s 22Cans Worth -£1.2m
Peter Molyneux’s 22Cans, developer of the notorious (and still unfinished) Godus, has been revealed to be worth -£1.2 million. According to NextPowerUp, 22Cans’ net worth has fallen from -£710,022 in 2013 to -£1.2 million after its assets dropped from £1 million to £487,816, with liabilities of £1.7 million having remained…
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Peter Molyneux Accepts Blame for his Portrayal as a “Fraud”
Infamous game developer Peter Molyneux has suffered quite a hammering of late, not least due to the Curiosity/Godus debacle, and he now concedes that he is partly to blame for his portrayal in the press as a “fraud” and a “liar”, admitting that he’s guilty of waxing lyrical about game…
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Nineties Classic Syndicate Available Free on Origin Now
Classic real-time strategy game Syndicate is available for free through EA’s digital distribution platform Origin. Syndicate, developed by notorious game developer Peter Molyneux under the Bullfrog banner, puts the player in charge of a team of four cyborgs tasked with wiping out the other syndicates on isometric cityscapes. Syndicate is…
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“I Will Not Speak to the Press Again,” Claims Peter Molyneux
After the recent controversy concerning the broken promises over his game, Godus, game developer Peter Molyneux has announced his retirement from public life, swearing off all future press interviews. “The only answer is for me to retreat,” Molyneux told The Guardian via Skype. “I love my games and I love…
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The Man Who Opened Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity Cube Still Awaiting His Reward
When 18-year-old Scot Bryan Henderson opened Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity cube, he was promised that the reward would be “life-changing”. That was on 26th May 2013, and Henderson is still waiting. Curiosity, a mobile game developed by Molyneux – the famed auteur and creator of the Fable games – through his…
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