Peter Molyneux, the mind behind the originalFablegames andBlack and White, is back. And the crowd goes mild.
As announced at Gamescom yesterday, Molyneux and his developer 22cans are back with their new gameMasters of Albionafter their long stint developing mobile games.
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If you take a look attheir Steam page, you’ll notice thatGodusis no longer available on Steam even though it did see release on the marketplace.
This is because the developer announced some time ago that they could no longer support the development of the ongoing title, so they opted to simply remove it from the Steam store for… some reason.
Fans of Molyneux’s most popular game,Fable, might notice thatMasters of Albion’stitle shares something in common. Albion is the same name of the land that theFablegames are set in, which might make you think that the games are set in the same universe. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
As Molyneux explainedin his interview with IGN, the two locations simply share a name and aren’t interconnected in any way.
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Or, as he explains it: “Albion is like saying if you set a game in America, you can’t set any other game in America… so Albion can’t be copyrighted. It’s the name for England and Wales and that’s how we get away with it.”
Tying this together with the obvious gameplay similarities betweenMasters of AlbionandBlack and White, it seems a little bit like Molyneux is essentially giving Microsoft the middle finger here, as they now own the rights to bothBlack and WhiteandFablefollowing their acquisition of Lionhead Studios - the studio that Molyneux founded.
Topics:Fable,Microsoft
