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Lionhead Studios Loses 10% Of Its Workforce To Layoffs

Posted on Tuesday, October 16 @ 11:26:48 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack
"I'm just going to take a little off the t... woops."

Fable as we know it, and wish it would become, may very well be a thing of history.

Lionhead Studios has lost about 10% of its roughly 200-member workforce today due to a round of layoffs. Microsoft has declined to state why people were let go, but recent events do all the talking.

The company's previous founder, Peter Molyneux, announced his departure in March, and just released his final game with the studio, Fable: The Journey. Unfortunately, the title wasn't the big final farewell that many hoped and performed poorly critically with ratings averaging around the 60% mark and its sales were low enough to keep it from appearing on any top 20 charts during its week of launch.

Lionhead Studios is said to be working on a new project, although its title is unknown. Remember, this is the studio that brought us Black & White and the first two Fable games which were received very well globally. To have it crumble inside-out is the last thing this industry needs, and hopefully we see a proper restructuring of the studio to get it back on its feet.
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  • Imnickson
    Imnickson
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Oct 16th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
    Lionhead just launched a game, most studios have layoffs post launch.
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  • Jessica_Vazquez
    Jessica_Vazquez
    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Oct 16th, 2012 at 4:26 pm
    Lionhead Studios is Titanic and Fable: The Journey was their Iceberg. The end.
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  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Oct 16th, 2012 at 5:20 pm
    Fable was never a very good game, but had an interesting concept and sold pretty well because of it. Lionhead then decided to milk the franchise and it cost them.
    1 0
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Oct 16th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
    Worst of all, they kept Peter Molyneux
    0 0
  • cheesegod99
    cheesegod99
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Oct 16th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
    Reform Bullfrog! PLEASE!
    0 0
  • KaiserKold
    KaiserKold
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Oct 17th, 2012 at 6:41 am
    Unfortunately, I DUMPWEED seems to be correct. I can only judge from Fable 2, really, but it was just not that great. Fable 2 suffered horribly from its most basic gameplay mechanics - the role-playing elements were awesome, but the action elements were shockingly dull.
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