Forza Developer Playground is geared up to reboot Microsoft’s Fable franchise, the developer had hired Batman Game scriptwriters in the new team. According to news source among three from four Batman Arkham writers have joined Playground, which includes Senior Scriptwriter Kim MacAskill, Principal Scriptwriter Martin Lancaster and Writer of Du Lac & Fey: Dance of Death, Rebecca Haigh.
Playground is actively hiring for the game development from the past three years, yet not openly shared any vital details on the reboot. A lot of lead members from different triple AAA titles had made into Playground group indicating they are working on something really big.
Fable series took place between 2004 and ended in 2017 with Fable Fortune. The action role-playing game was released for Xbox, PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. With the end of Lionhead Studios in 2016, there is nothing much to hear about the series reboot. In the year 2016, Lionhead Studios launched a Kickstarted project to crowdfund Fable Fortune, with still in development after the studio closure it was released on Xbox One in Feb 2018.
Rumor about Playground Games working on Fable IV started in Jan 2019, when head of Xbox Phil Spencer agreed on it during the E3 2018 conference. Fresh hiring reveals Playground Games will reveal a lot on the new Fable Reboot in the forthcoming period.
Source: VideoGamesChronicle