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  • Lexx87 7 Mar 2012 12:13:50 20,873 posts
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    http://kotaku.com/5890594/peter-molyneux-is-leaving-lionhead-studios-and-microsoft-will-finish-kinect-fable

    It is with mixed emotions that I made the decision to leave Microsoft and Lionhead Studios, the company that I co-founded in 1997, at the conclusion of development of Fable: The Journey.," Molyneux said in a statement to Kotaku.

    Speak the truth hussy!

  • agparrot 7 Mar 2012 12:17:23 11,899 posts
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    I anticipate a Kickstarter project for "something like Populous" in the very near future!
  • agparrot 7 Mar 2012 12:17:23 11,899 posts
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  • MetalDog 7 Mar 2012 12:18:31 23,448 posts
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    Should be interesting to see what he gets up to next. He's never boring, I'll give him that :)

    Mark Webley is a pretty awesomesauce fellow, look forward to seeing what happens with him captaining the good ship Lionhead too.

    -- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.

  • Psychotext 7 Mar 2012 12:18:52 49,606 posts
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    Good on him.

    I've been saying for years that the poor bastard should get out of the saltmines. He really wasn't suited to that sort of corporate world.

    This post is sponsored by Apple and the iPhone 4S. Think different.

  • King_Edward 7 Mar 2012 12:21:07 9,778 posts
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    Thank Fuck.
  • Razz 7 Mar 2012 12:22:05 58,183 posts
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    Eurogamer frontpage last with the news as always :/

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  • THFourteen 7 Mar 2012 12:23:29 29,271 posts
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    meh, fables were a load of rubbish anyway.
  • Blerk Moderator 7 Mar 2012 12:23:42 47,785 posts
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    It'll be interesting to see what he can come up with with the shackles off. If anything. :D
  • mcmonkeyplc 7 Mar 2012 12:24:52 35,991 posts
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    He clearly felt that MS didn't hold enough ambition for Kinect....

    Come and get it cumslingers!

  • morriss 7 Mar 2012 12:25:26 69,618 posts
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    Wow. Bombshell.
  • MrTomFTW Moderator 7 Mar 2012 12:26:41 31,670 posts
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    He wants to be free. He wants to go do what he wants to do!

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  • dsmx 7 Mar 2012 12:27:41 6,931 posts
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    black and white 3?

    "If we hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a a house of cards, checkmate." Zapp Brannigan

  • shamblemonkee 7 Mar 2012 12:27:43 13,508 posts
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    agparrot wrote:
    I anticipate a Kickstarter project for "something like Populous" in the very near future!
    That would be good. Just so long as it's not one of his mentals like "crasha c ar in a racing game and your friends mum explodes in reality!!" style ideas
  • oceanmotion 7 Mar 2012 12:27:49 13,402 posts
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    Weird. He seemed to promote Kinect a lot. Was that just PR and he really thinks it's shit ?

    I also think it may be results too, what have they really achieved since Fable 1 ?
  • Blerk Moderator 7 Mar 2012 12:27:51 47,785 posts
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    Fable Heroes must've driven him over the edge.
  • Zomoniac 7 Mar 2012 12:27:59 6,318 posts
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    Good. Can't help but feel MS have been holding him back for a while now. Interesting to see what comes next.
  • X201 7 Mar 2012 12:29:02 13,442 posts
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    Didn't see that one coming but happy for him.

    He needs to be top dog at a company so that he can say "we're doing this", and not have to seek approval from the suits above.
  • oceanmotion 7 Mar 2012 12:29:38 13,402 posts
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    It would be funny if he joined the people that recently left Lionhead.
  • javvyman 7 Mar 2012 12:29:54 671 posts
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    I'd be leaving too if I was as good as forced to make Fable games for 6 years. He's clearly got more to him than that, but hasn't had the freedom to create what he really wants.
  • neilka 7 Mar 2012 12:30:32 12,596 posts
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    Peter Mlolyneuz

    EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE

  • oceanmotion 7 Mar 2012 12:31:30 13,402 posts
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    I imagine doing Fable this and that for a decade must take it's toll.

    Microsoft recently said they were doubling down on their franchises. I can see more devs leaving in droves.

    Onto new a better things.

    Edited by oceanmotion at 12:32:43 07-03-2012
  • madgerald Marketing Manager, Arooga 7 Mar 2012 12:31:48 300 posts
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    Molyneux's new venture is startup studio 22 Cans, which was founded by former Lionhead CTO Tim Rance in January 2012.
  • nickthegun 7 Mar 2012 12:34:27 45,310 posts
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  • Razz 7 Mar 2012 12:34:35 58,183 posts
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    As confirmed by twitter:
    https://twitter.com/#!/pmolyneux/statuses/177367286859051008

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  • oceanmotion 7 Mar 2012 12:36:25 13,402 posts
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    Rare now have a studio buddy in the same boat, Lionhead.
  • Derblington 7 Mar 2012 12:37:23 19,665 posts
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    I'm of the opposite opinion. He seems to need other people to keep him in check more often than not, and he's really not done anything great for a long time. His ideas/games are always over scoped, full of hype, and the result is good but nothing more.

    Good luck to him, he'll always be a well known character in industry circles and he'll always have the opportunity to make whatever he fancies but I doubt he'll ever have the kind of successes his original games brought him.

    Edited by Derblington at 13:36:53 07-03-2012
  • morriss 7 Mar 2012 12:40:26 69,618 posts
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    Be interesting to see a DS game from him, or Vita. Or perhaps an iOS title.
  • Deckard1 7 Mar 2012 12:40:55 19,224 posts
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    Rumours circulating on twitter that he was pushed rather than jumped. Apparently there's a story about to break about him being accused of sexually abusing a young boy a few years ago.
  • RedSparrows 7 Mar 2012 12:41:32 17,512 posts
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    So now you all like him?

    Funny that.

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