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Microsoft is teasing a new look at PlayGround Games‘ Fable at the Xbox Games Showcase 2023 on June 11.A recent tweet from Xbox teasing the upcoming Xbox Games Showcase looks like it could be getting ready to share a brand-new look at the fantasy role-playing game Fable.The video shows an Xbox controller covered in glitter, with the person behind the camera following the colourful trail until it reaches a computer monitor teasing the upcoming event. All the while, whimsical music can be heard, leading fans to believe the mystery game will be Fable.You can check out the teaser below:Do you love ✨ GAMES ✨ as much as we do? Then you won’t want to miss the Xbox Games Showcase: https://t.co/YSurRjtzpn | #Starfield #XboxShowcase pic.twitter.com/O1qSlXHNmY— Xbox (@Xbox) May 30, 2023The teaser ends with the caption “seems important” and asks fans to tune in on June 11 to see what the news will be.Fable was announced back in 2020 with a cinematic trailer, and will be coming to Xbox Series X and PC.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Xbox Games Studios head Alan Hartman is stepping down from his post after more than three decades working at parent company Microsoft. Following Hartman’s retirement, Craig Duncan, chief of Xbox’s studio Rare, will take over the position.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Microsoft Gaming is taking a victory lap after an impressive Xbox Games Showcase presentation at the David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles on June 9, which was anchored by the reveal of “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” followed by major announcements across all of Xbox’s studios, including Bethesda, Activision and Blizzard, as well as collaborations with third-party developers. Xbox president of gaming content and studios Matt Booty sat down with Jennifer Maas, Variety senior business writer of TV and video games, to discuss highlights from this year’s presentation, the inner workings of Xbox post-Activision Blizzard, and more for Variety’s “Strictly Business” podcast.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Microsoft‘s Activision has launched a new internal, standalone studio with one mission: creating a new narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise. Titled Elsewhere Entertainment, the studio will be headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, with additional staff in the United States.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Microsoft‘s Xbox will shut down four studios run by its Bethesda Softworks publisher, including Arkane Austin, Alpha Dog Studios, Tango Gameworks and Roundhouse Games. Xbox Game Studios chief Matt Booty announced the restructuring in a memo to staff Tuesday, writing that the closures were “grounded in prioritizing high-impact titles and further investing in Bethesda’s portfolio of blockbuster games and beloved worlds which you have nurtured over many decades.” “We are making these tough decisions to create capacity to increase investment in other parts of our portfolio and focus on our priority games,” Booty wrote.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Bobby Kotick is officially leaving Activision Blizzard on Dec. 29, after more than three decades as CEO of the gaming giant, following Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of the company.

Fable’s comical world for fans, featuring Richard Ayoade as one of the disgruntled denizens dealing with bothersome heroes.Of course, we had an inkling the RPG would be appearing in the presentation, based on a sparkly social media post from the official Xbox social media channels. And if there’s one thing that Fable is fondly remembered for, it is its wry sense of humour about the Hollywood solemnity of other fantasy fiction.Richard Ayoade, who you’ll recognise from The IT Crowd, set the scene for the narrative of the new Fable, starring as Dave the vegetable enthusiast.

Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty has shared that the upcoming reboot of Perfect Dark is being done “very carefully” so that it works for modern-day audiences.During a Pax West 2022 interview, which was shared on Twitter (September 2), Booty was asked how one reboots Joanna Dark – the protagonist of Perfect Dark – in the modern age. To this, he said, “very carefully,” going on to add, “those things they don’t always age well…”Booty doesn’t clarify this statement, but by the way the question is asked and answered he could be referring to the design choices of Joanna Dark when the game originally launched in 2000.Matt Booty describes rebooting Perfect Dark for the modern day as "Very Carefully".He also describles the game as a cross between a Bourne Identity and James Bond.

Xbox Game Studios boss, Matt Booty, has discussed how Xbox “jumped at the chance” to work with Crystal Dynamics on its upcoming Perfect Dark reboot.In an interview with Kinda Funny Games and transcribed by VGC, Booty explained the thought process behind Xbox’s plans:“I think we’re at a point in the industry where if you’ve got a team like the Crystal Dynamics team that becomes available, which has got great pedigree, good success, just a lot of skill, and through connections—you know, the fact we’ve got Daryl Gallagher at The Initiative, who knows some folks there—and they become available, going back to what are my jobs day-to-day, it would just be, I’d be remiss to [not] say ‘we’ve got to find a way to make this work’.”As he continued,

Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has said that Microsoft doesn’t have a mandate for live service games.In a recent interview with The Guardian, Booty said that while Microsoft is thinking about live service type games, it isn’t something that is essential, stating: “We don’t have any direction or mandate that says every game has to be an ongoing, sustained game”.Booty used the upcoming Double Fine Productions title Psychonauts 2 as an example when he explained that “there might be a Psychonauts 3, but I’m not going to tell Tim Schafer to go make it.“Knowing the history of games that he makes, I don’t think he’s going to be making a game that has seasons and goes on for five years,” he continued. Psychonauts 2 will also have an

Microsoft have announced a cut in the fees taken from developers when games are sold from their store.Previously taking 30 per cent, the cut will see them match the Epic Games Store at 12 per cent in an effort to entice developers to list games on their platform and stores.

Fable reboot is scarce, Head of Microsoft Studios, Matt Booty, has shed more light on the game.In an interview with The Guardian, Booty spoke about the upcoming Xbox Series X and how games are no longer defined by technology. One such game that will take advantage of the new hardware is the new Fable instalment, developed by Playground Games.“I just look at what Playground has done with the Horizon series – that attention to detail, the ability to represent these naturalistic landscapes,” Booty stated.