{"id":90959,"date":"2016-04-29T11:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T09:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90959"},"modified":"2016-04-29T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T09:09:20","slug":"fable-developer-lionhead-studios-officially-closes-down-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90959-fable-developer-lionhead-studios-officially-closes-down-today","title":{"rendered":"Fable developer Lionhead Studios officially closes down today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionhead Studios, the development studio behind the Fable franchise, officially closes down today.<\/p>\n<p>The studio&#8217;s closure\u00a0was originally announced on <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/86790-fable-legends-is-cancelled-lionhead-studios-set-to-close.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>7 March 2016<\/strong><\/a>, and today the studio closes down for good.<\/p>\n<p>Lionhead Studios staff have been expressing their sadness and saying farewell to their beloved development studio\u00a0on social media today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Getting ready to go to work at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lionhead?src=hash\">#Lionhead<\/a> for the last time. Hardest thing I&#8217;ve ever had to do. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BestTeamEver?src=hash\">#BestTeamEver<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0dFakXIqLw\">pic.twitter.com\/0dFakXIqLw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Callum Macarthur (@ThirteenOranges) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThirteenOranges\/status\/725951781834870784\">April 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fable Legends, the last game developed by Lionhead Studios was\u00a0never officially released\u00a0and was officially shut down on 13 April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all bad news, as Sony assisted ex-Lionhead Studios employees by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/86892-good-guy-sony-to-hold-event-to-help-out-ex-lionhead-employees.html\" target=\"_blank\">recruiting developers<\/a><\/strong> for other projects.<\/p>\n<p>Lionhead Studios created some influential games during its lifetime, including the Fable and Black &amp; White franchises.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Jolie to Vikander: 20 years of Lara Croft actresses,games and photos\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/90847-jolie-to-vikander-20-years-of-lara-croft-actressesgames-and-photos.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jolie to Vikander: 20 years of Lara Croft actresses,games and photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cutting-edge AOC gaming monitors here soon\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/87959-cutting-edge-aoc-gaming-monitors-here-soon.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cutting-edge AOC gaming monitors here soon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cape Town Comic Con kicks off next weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90777-cape-town-comic-con-kicks-off-next-weekend.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cape Town Comic Con kicks off next weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionhead Studios, the development studio behind the Fable franchise, officially closes down today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":61913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[31,18365,2627,91],"class_list":["post-90959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-closed","tag-lionhead-studios","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}