“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.

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.

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.

October which year?

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.

It’s 2.00am on Thursday. In 12 hours I fly out to LA to begin the hell that is E3.

At this point in time the nine different demos that we’ve done for the show floor and Microsoft press event are not quite working as they should.

We had to make three different videos: for the E3 trailer, the press conference and B-Roll footage. A huge amount of work, on top of finishing off the game.

I’m scared. I’m tired. I’m even too frightened to go the toilet in case I fall asleep and miss the flight. But hey it’s E3 and that’s what it’s all about.

It’s the adrenaline rush of pushing your chest out and showing who you are and what you stand for and this year Lionhead stands for Fable 2 which amazingly is finally done.

More than three years in time, multimillions in dollars and a further inch off my receding hairline and finally I get the chance to show off to the world - the trouble is we’re giving the press the chance to play the game for themselves for the first time and experience tells me that anything can go wrong…

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.

Future Publishing Limited (”Future”) is the publisher of Official Xbox Magazine (the “Magazine”). In issue 36 of the Magazine, Future published an article relating to Fable 2 (the “Article”). The Article is an original artistic work and Future owns the copyright in it.

It has come to our attention that the Article is being published on the website whose URL is at www.loinhead.net (the “Website”) without consent from Future and as such, the publisher of the Website is infringing Future’s copyright in the Article.

Please confirm to me within two days of the date of this email that:

a) the Article has been removed from the Website; and
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If we do not receive confirmation as above, Future reserves the right to initiate legal proceedings against the publisher of the Website for copyright infringement without further notice.

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Jon Hicks

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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.

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).