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Some images from the latest and greatest Community Update.

It’s nowhere near finished. Think about that for a second. It is not finished. [Sam]

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This link has been recently brought to my attention from an individual who shall remain annonymous. Apparently a new Lionhead News site has appeared recently. Or should I say, “News”. Whatever the case, it is mildly amusing and seems to be at least worth a visit.

The Lionhead Review

 Whatever it’s nature, its good to have a new LH fansite.

Peter Molyneux is from the old guard. As a designer of videogames for over 20 years, he’s in a league of few and has a pedigree of innovation. That track record has seen him take huge risks all for the sake of pushing the art form. We spoke to Peter recently about Fable 2 as well as some of his previous works, Fable and Black & White, to find out exactly how his latest work is the culmination of all he has done before. To hear a candid talk on topics including but not limited to what happened with Fable and how he and his team look to rectify that with Fable 2, look no further.

Watch the interview here.

Fable 2 staging director Georg Backer has talked with eurogamer about lionheads wish to make games equal to movies and tv.

We want to achieve that games are an equal choice of entertainment as movies and TV are,” said Backer - delivering Lionhead’s GCDC speech instead of Peter Molyneux, who had to pull out. He went on to reveal that the developer had sought counsel from film editors, fighting specialists and professional wrestlers, among others, to help create a unique combat system that delivered on the developer’s intent.

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Molyneux didn’t make it to the Best-selling Games panel he was supposed to attend (Joystiq cits ‘unspecified reasons’). No wonder it was a bit dull.

Spong has received a email from the one and only Peter Molyneux.

I find the traditional RPG either a mixture of a hugely long slog, the padding out of often poorly balanced features for tens of hours or an incredibly complex multi faceted mixing pot of meaningless and confused features where the true feeling of being heroic has been lost. What we are striving to do with Fable 2 is to give the player a true heroic path that makes you feel as though you really are playing the role of a hero or heroine through finely tuned game mechanics innovation and story and our combat system is a big part of that. But I would say that wouldn’t I?

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GamesIndustry.biz has posted the second part of the their big interview with Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley and Tim Rance.

GamesIndustry.biz: What made you accept the offer from Microsoft, as opposed to the others that came in?

PM: They simply told us that they wanted us to be unbelievably creative and inventive, and they wanted to give us an environment where we could create great games. And that really is the way it’s worked out.

We worked out what we wanted to be within Microsoft, and our mission statement is really two things - to create landmark games that the world respects, and to be the most professional studio within Microsoft Game Studios. And that’s the dream, and I think we’re doing quite well with that.

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After a lot of work behind the scenes, the Lionhead site is now running Community Server and is all shiny.

GamesIndustry.biz interviewed Peter Molyneux (CEO, studio head and chief designer), Mark Webley (director) and Tim Rance (CTO) about the last ten years at Lionhead, who actually started as “Splinter Studios”. Part one of three.

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Though the majority of readers of this page will no doubt already be aware, the Lionhead Forums have come down, earlier than the most recent anticipated down-time. According to Sam, this means that they will likely be up again by the end of this week.

We know little about the new forum system, except that they are supposed to be better, flashier, and sexier than ever. - Read on »