With the announcement of a series reboot at The Game Awards in 2020, Microsoft’s newest studio, The Initiative, has been given the momentous task of bringing the franchise to modern audiences, with a little help from Tomb Raider industry veterans Crystal Dynamics. That accolade goes to its spiritual successor: Perfect Dark. However, at the risk of raising blood pressure worldwide, I’ll dare to say that it’s not the jewel in the British developer’s FPS crown. Is this some galaxy-brain double-bluff to keep us all quiet before the surprise reveal, or am I reading way, way too much into this? Check the guild- err, the site, for more quests deets when that event kicks off next month.Rare’s legendary N64 first-person shooter, Goldeneye, marked its 25th anniversary last month. Still! Microsoft haven't yet had their big not-E3 Xbox 20/20 showcase, currently planned for later this July. Rumours of a Fable 4 have been floating about for years, but it seems we may be back to square one on that. Hopes of a proper, numbered sequel were dashed for good when Microsoft shut down Lionhead, prematurely killing asymmetrical multiplayer entry Fable Fortunes. While it was briefly a tentpole property for Microsoft, it seemed like the pubs didn't know what to do with it after Fable 3.
While the remastered visuals are pretty naff, it's a good game, too - a solid action-RPG populated entirely by west-country accents.
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But Fable did - and while Fable 3 was unceremoniously dropped from Steam with the death of Games For Windows Live, Fable Anniversary (a Halo: Anniversary-style remake of the first game) is still kicking about on Steam. With only two entries on the Nintendo 64 and Xbox 360, Perfect Dark never found its way to PC. At the time of writing, it isn't clear why - though the current owner of the PD account is certain the follow wouldn't have happened "if they didn’t have something in the works". Microsoft creative director Ken Lobb followed the account. After spotting the Fable account, an unrelated Twitter user snagged the Perfect Dark handle, admitting as such later on their timeline. The Perfect Dark account is a stranger story, though. General manager of Xbox games marketing Aaron Greenberg slid into Warren's replies to confirm that no, this was simply a routine job to "secure social handles for our IP". Unfortunately, news of the two series' return has been greatly exaggerated. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. I’m not sure who discovered the and placeholders, but a Microsoft Xbox employee is following one, and the other is registered to a Microsoft email address ? /MagqUbPiZf If, like me, you're unbearably online at all times, you'll have noticed the buzz around the two long-dormant Xbox properties started when The Verge's Tom Warren discovered "placeholder" Twitter accounts for Fable and Perfect Dark, both with minor - if noteworthy - ties to the publishers. Microsoft have stepped in to confirm that, no, you can't believe everything you read on Twitter. Your hopes are low - do you have any sources, or facts? This weekend, a very select group of FPS and action-RPG fans were elated to discover that Fable and Perfect Dark - two franchises that have gathered dust under Xbox's stewardship - may have been preparing for a comeback.
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