Fable is delayed until 2026, but Xbox Game Studios head says: "It's definitely worth the wait"

A screenshot of a character in the Xbox Games Showcase June 2024 Fable trailer.
(Image credit: Playground Games)

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fable reboot, initially scheduled to release some time this year, ha🍷s been delayed to 2026.

"We are actually going to give Fable more time," 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Game Studios head Craig Duncan says in a . "While I know that's not maybe the news people want to hear, what I want to assu🍷re people of is that it's definitely worth the wait."

Playground, the Forza Horizon developer, has already made "quite frankly, the most beautifully realized version of Albion you've ever seen," the Xbox director continues. "I have unequivocal confidence in the Playground team. If you think about their history and leg﷽acy for Forza Horizon – the last two games critically acclaimed [...], award-winning, beautiful, played great."

Xbox first revealed Fable in 2020, but it's been reticent about sharing more details about the action RPG – the first game to join the irreverent fantasy series in nearly two decades – ಞsince then. Fable didn't even get a full trailer until 2023, though Duncan shared fre꧒sh pre-alpha footage during his Official Xbox Podcast appearance, calming the sting of Fable's delay a little bit.

ꦬThe new clips show off Fable's lush, flower-spotted environments and dynamic sword combat, and Duncan adds that the game's quests𝓀, boss battles, and magic all "felt amazing" during his hands-on time.

"Genuinely beautiful," he says, "It's vꦐery real. Everything you're seeing here is very playable. [...] Take my word for it."

"There are no bigger fans of Fable as a franchise [ꦬthan] the Playground team that are making it," Duncan continues. "It's a really fun balance between, what are the game tenets𓆉 that are true to Fable? And what's some modern day reimagining of what is Playground Games' version of Fable?"

Fable's reboot remains shrouded in mystery – but that's the most exciting thing about it.

Ashley is a Senior Wri𒁏ter at GamesRadar+. She's been a s⛄taff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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