Loinhead

The Develop Conference & Expo – Come and be inspired by these speakers and others from studios such as Media Molecule, Lionhead Studios,

Again from Develop Magazine’s most recent release, it seems that someone from Lionhead will be representin’ at the Brighton conference later this year, from the 29th to the 31st of July. Also see last time Lionhead went to Brighton.

In this month’s Develop Magazine there is an “IP Profile” of Black & White, although it reads more like an essay about Lionhead pre-2006. (We have some alleged “images” which may or may not come from the alleged “article”.) The interesting numbers are:

• Black & White and Creature Isle sold 2 million copies put together
• B&W2 sold “a fraction” of that, so perhaps a few hundred thousand
• Fable sold 1.5 million in its first month and 3 million overall

The webcams page now has all four lionhead webcams at once. That is all.

Gamasutra have a 5-page interview with the Molynator. Here is a brief selection of tantalising phrases which may or may not be related to the interview or, for that matter, Fable 2: henchmen that can do everything you can, Peter playing with and designing for his wife, finding the middle ground between arcade and hardcore and the audience to go with it, something about “women” having “insight”, the industry, the past of Bullfrog yet again. Also he likes Phantom Hourglass.

Yarr.

Former High Karma members were invited to Lionhead Studios a couple of days ago. During which time, they were let in on some hidden secrets and the likes that regular members dream about at night.

Most of which they discovered was fairly old, MJLover mentioned that there were some fancy details that were recently put in, but sadly he wasn’t allowed to say much about it.

So what was revealed?

Well, as Derobrash mentioned, LH are experimenting with a Tamagotchi device of sorts that will allow you to train your dog even away from your xBox. You’ll then be able to upload the dog you have on your Tamagotchi up to your xbox, and if you’ve done much training, you’ll have a more trained dog on your game.

The forums are down. Official sources declined to comment. Secret contacts have leaked internal emails to us implying forums will return in a month starting with a J.