“No. I hate demos. What either happens, is you either make a demo that people think is too short or, you know, is too confusing,” said Molyneux. “There are a million reasons why they go wrong, very few reasons why they go right. What was the last great demo that you played and then went out and bought the game?” – Videogamer.com

Molyneux has also updated his BBC diary.

At the Develop Conference in Brighton later this month, Lionhead have:

Fable 2 Art Showcase — Ian Lovett and John McCormack (14.30 - 15.30, Thursday, July 31st)

and a as-yet undated “New Gameplay Dimensions in Role-playing Games” talk by Molyneux. From the latest Develop Magazine.

Eurogamer has a hands-on.

It’s all to do with orbs. These look a little like pearls, and move politely about the world of Fable 2 as if minding their own business. And they are minding their own business: every orb you encounter is somebody on your friends list who’s independently playing through the game. The orb shows their position, allows you to chat, gift them items, compare stats, and even boot them out of your world. It also allows you to invite them in to join you properly.

Fable 2 has a fancy pages on xbox.com, more coming later.

Gametrailers.com have some kind of Fable 2 gameplay montage.

Following the news that Fable 2 is confirmed to come out in October (from Kotaku’s liveblogging), there is one question on the lips of every older Lionhead watcher:

October which year?

In what we consider to be the first publicly documented case of Molyneux writing anything (hopefully putting the majority of detractors that claim he cannot write to rest), Molyneux is keeping an “E3 Diary” at the BBC.

So far, Molyneux has one entry, pre-flight to E3. He shares his bizarre fear of going to the toilet and claims that his hairline has receeded further (is that possible?). They’ve made nine different demos and three different videos. - Read on »

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a source in Future publishing feeding us these slightly before magazine release? Wouldn’t it be nice if I checked my email yesterday?

At the request of Future Publishing Limited, we have taken down these fakes, but we hear that some partial content is available at oxm.co.uk.

- Read on »

In going through our attic (who would like to remain anonymous), we seem to have found an image in the style of Fable 2 very shortly after the Collector’s Edition was announced. Does it look familiar? Have we played too much Halo? Is it part of the Collector’s Edition? We have no idea.

As far as you know, anyway.

Lionhead has updated their website to a subtle yellow-on-black, gradient heavy design on a gorgeous background art piece.

It also includes a Tales of Albion section, which requires Microsoft’s flash-competitor Silverlight to run; however you can read content right here without Silverlight (I guess someone forgot to remove those This is Sparta!s before publishing).

The old content still appears to be there in its entirety, including the never-updated © 2006 Microsoft Corporation (you guys, I think <%=Year(Date)%> echoes the current year).

(Via Lionose) Vapidangel has posted an ad scanned from Official Xbox Magazine (in the UK):