Lionhead Adds New Free and Purchaseable Content to Fable III

Lionhead is giving away free Santa hats to download for all heroes of Albion this year, which has gone live on the Xbox Marketplace already. Also added was not new content or quests again yet, but an add-on that adds new breeds to morph yer pooch into if you're tired of old Lassie. The three new breeds available are the fluffy annoyingly-groomed Poodle, an evilly cute Doberman and a German Shepard, which for whatever reason is referred to as an Alastian in your breed settings.

Fable III Patch Released

The Fable patch is finally here. Rejoice Fable 3 players, as the patch promises to fix glitches that cause save game crashes and frame rate improvement. Although the patch doesn't fix everything, as Lionhead stated, it should handle a majority of the problems.

Hit the break for the full list of fixes included in this patch.

Gift Guide for the Gamer Who Has Everything

Last year I compiled a list of things for the affluent, items few gamers would ever purchase but that we might all have drooled at as they taunted us, glittering wonderfully behind store windows. It was actually more of a mix of mostly accessible items and socially irresponsible toys. This year I'm taking a slightly different perspective on things. I'm still going to compile a list of items that your poor gamer would probably pass on, but it might be a touch more practical this time around. In other words, there won't be anything on this list costing more than a grand.

Review: Fable III

I support child labor, brothers, and polygamy. Only in video games though, so don’t go revolting to get me off my virtual throne. See, I have morals in real life. I’m a good person. I kiss babies and all that by day at work. But in video games, it’s all fantasy – and I love when I get to unleash a little dark side here and there. Fable III let me push that to some choices I’ve always wanted but was never offered in any RPG. So consider my platform, I’m Stephanie Palermo and I support child labor (in Fable III). Vote for me for Queen of Albion.

Lionhead Opens Issue Report Page and Gives Update for Kingmaker Gold Issues

Since Fable III's release on October 26, 2010, there have been complaints and issues about the game. Lionhead has begun a campaign to rectify this problem - the technical ones, anyway. On Lionhead's Fable III website, you can find an Issue Report page and give them a detailed account about what technical problems you are experiencing. They go on to say that they are "monitoring this on a daily basis and the test, development and community teams meet on a regular basis to try and repro issues that come up, so the development team can fix it for the next update we'll release." Although the process for this is slow with no ETA, they ensure us that it will get looked at.

Fable III Rules With an All-Star Voice Cast in the Latest Lionhead Studios Video Diary

Lionhead Studios, the team behind the epic upcoming RPG Fable III, has released a new video diary with some of the all-star voicework cast from the game. You've got your Monty Python, a Star Trek star, as well as voices from The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland, and the upcoming X-Men: First Class. They put on some great accents, especially Sir Ben Kingsley's charming Welsh accent for Sabine. The video has a few snippets of the examples of voice work the well-known talent has done for the game. Please check out the video below and the full list of released voice actors and the characters to look out for them in when you play Fable III.

Sabine's kempt santa beard alone should be enough to make you curious to check out the clip!

Transform Your Bedroom Into a Torture Chamber in Fable III

The strict customization features in Fable II apparently left a lot of players unsatisfied. Lionhead has taken up these comments and complaints and revamped the housing customization features for Fable III. Before, where a wardrobe would sit, you could only swap it out with another higher or lower (in terms of quality/fanciness) level wardrobe. A bed for a bed, an eye for an eye, so to speak. Now, if you're not one for big blocks of wood to change your clothes... swap it for some torture chamber material, because an iron maiden is one of the available pieces to furnish your new home with. The wallpaper is now customizable, and you can move things around a bit more freely, such as moving a rug to any desired position on the floor, as well as change the type of items that lay on your bookshelves.

Check out the video below provided by Lionhead to get a glimpse of how the new housing features function, the iron maiden, and their book boneshelves.

Rulers of Albion Get Ready: Fable 3 Achievements Announced

The fate of Albion rests upon your shoulders on October 26th with the release of Fable 3. To assist you in ruling the lands, Xbox 360 Achievements has released the list of 50 achievements to allow you to get the most out of your gaming experience. Lionhead Studios once again makes the achievements compelling and fun to make them hard to ignore. Check them out below.

Fable III Opening Cinematic Released

With the release of this year's highly anticipated Fable III dawning upon us (in about two months), Lionhead Studios has released the game's opening cinematic, and it's not what you would expect. Let me be straight with you, the opening sequence is about a chicken. Although the hero of the opener is just a chicken, our narrator clearly lets us know that this allegorical sequence carries a lot more depth than meets the eye.

E3 ’10: Hands-On with Fable III

One of my most anticipated titles on the Xbox 360 for E3 2010 was Fable III. Fable II was such an enjoyment for me, but it always left the horizon open for what could have and should have been to make it the best experience Fable could be. Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios is known for his big promises and high hopes to push the genre forward with innovation but like most games and game company leaders – we hold our breath until we put our own two hands on the game and see for ourselves. In Fable II we were promised an expansive and immersive co-op experience, and the online turned out to be pretty damn close to nailing complete and utter failure despite how enjoyable the single player experience was. At E3 we got some hands-on time with the latest build of Fable III and talked to some of the development team on some of the pretty creative and interesting things to expect from your online experience in Fable III.