Tonight, during the traditional Xbox Developer Direct at the start of the year, Playground Games caused a sensation presenting in detail his next two games : Forza Horizon 6expected for the 19th of 2026 et Fablelisted for fall 2026 on PC, Xbox Series X/S and on PS5 from its launch.
After several months of waiting and fear around a possible new postponement to 2027, Playground Games revealed to us a wave of information on Fable. We take stock.
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Before the presentation, Playground Games had already teased a lot of things. This presentation was to highlight numerous adventures, a multitude of choices to make, while highlighting nervous Hobbes. The studio didn’t lie!
Fable will be the very first RPG from the studio and it promises to be extremely rich, immersive and organic. The Albion region seems very alive, with the possibility interact with almost all NPCs. These can then play a certain role in your quest. The game will offer lots of activities and will allow you to have a job, to make money, in addition to your side quests.
Well the saga Fable change of developers (following the closure of Lionhead Studio), the Playground Games teams intend to keep everything the humor, the atmosphere and the soul of the license. The world of Fable will be extremely detailed with diverse biomes. The game will offer you total freedom and personalization regarding creating your character (male or female).
Of course, combat will be at the center of the game and should be precise, offering a lot of possibilities to players with numerous combos that can be combined with your different powers. This new opus takes the emblematic mixture close combat, ranged combat, and magic from the original game, the famous combination of strength, skill and will.
Point important, karma will be back. The balance between good and evil will be very important and your behavior, as well as your choices will clearly have an importance on your entire adventure. Some choices may even have repercussions on your environment.
Playground clarified that play begins when we are children. And that is when our heroic powers first manifest themselves. This will then be the start of a long and great adventure: “The game skips back in time, and we find you in Briar Hill, the village of your beginnings, when you are now an adult in the prime of life. This is when the real events of the game begin to unfold”as indicated by Ralph Fulton, general manager and game director.
The trigger is when your grandmother and all the inhabitants of your village are turned to stone by a mysterious stranger. Finding yourself alone, you have no choice but to explore the world to understand what happened and try to reverse this fate.
From the start of the game, the entire kingdom of Albion will be accessible to be explored in freedom. There will be no no blocked areas due to too low a level. The entire world will adapt and evolve according to the player’s evolution.
Fable is expected on PC, Xbox Series X/S et PS5 pour this fall. A more precise release date will be communicated later.
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