In early March 2016, Microsoft announced that it had proposed closing Lionhead Studios and that the planned game Fable Legends would be cancelled Lionhead was closed down almost two months later, on 29 April. As a result, there were many changes within the studio. After Molyneux's departure, Microsoft had Lionhead switch to developing games as a service games. Molyneux left Lionhead in early 2012 (shortly after the resignation of another group of developers who were dissatisfied with the company) to found 22cans because he wanted to be more creative. Many Lionhead developers left around this time, including co-founder Jackson and several developers who left to found Media Molecule. Lionhead was acquired by Microsoft Studios in April 2006 due to encountering financial difficulties. In 2005, Lionhead released The Movies and Black & White 2. Lionhead released Fable, from satellite developer Big Blue Box. Lionhead Studios is named after Webley's hamster, which died not long after the naming of the studio, as a result of which the studio was very briefly renamed to Redeye Studios.īlack & White was followed up with the release of an expansion pack named Black & White: Creature Isle. Black & White was published by Electronic Arts in 2001.
Lionhead's first game was Black & White, a god game with elements of artificial life and strategy games. Lionhead started as a breakaway from developer Bullfrog Productions, which was also founded by Molyneux. The company is best known for the Black & White and Fable series. Lionhead Studios Limited was a British video game developer founded in July 1997 by Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley, Tim Rance, and Steve Jackson. Official website (archived version from 1 April 2016) Gary Carr ( chief creative officer) (2011–2015) Peter Molyneux ( managing director) (1997–2012)
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