Microsoft’s Holiday Offer: Spend 1600 Microsoft Points, Get 400 Free

To kick off the holiday season, Microsoft is offering 400 free Microsoft Points when you spend 1600 Points on select Microsoft Game Studios' titles. Running from November 16th to November 22th, you have to download the free Microsoft Game Studios Offer gamerpic first, then purchase the eligible products under the same Xbox LIVE account you registered the gamerpic with by November 22th.

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.

Buy Fable III New, Get DLC Free

Publishers are doing what they can to try to encourage gamers to purchase their games new, rather than used. Looks like Microsoft is joining the club, as they revealed that new copies of Fable III will include codes for various in-game downloadable goodies.

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.

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.

Fable III PC Delayed Indefinitely

PC gamers, sometimes it just seems like you haven't any luck. After missing out on Fable II, the announcement that its sequel would not be a 360-exclusive was welcome news. However, today, Microsoft admitted that the PC version of Fable III is no longer on the same schedule as the console game.

Originally scheduled to release together on October 26, Microsoft said only that "The console and PC versions are now on different schedules as we're focusing on building experiences optimized for each platform." No new PC release date was given, although the company promises "news soon."

Design Your Own Villager With Fable III Villager Maker

Are you one of the many who can't wait till Fable III is released? Do you still need that Fable fix? Well you're in luck, because today Microsoft and Lionhead Studios have launched the new Fable III Villager Maker, giving you the ability to tweak your creation's hair, background, clothing, accent, and more, the Villager Maker allows more than 2,000 different villager variations. The Villager Maker is available to everyone at Fable III's website, but people who pre-order Fable III will get exclusive bonuses - which includes bringing your creation to life in your Fable III game.

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.