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We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Two Point Hospital, from its roots in Theme Hospital to how Lionhead’s difficulties sped up its creation to how you should never underestimate UI
Read More »When We Made… Two Point Hospital
Sega to publish former Lionhead outfit Two Point Studios
Surrey based developer founded by Gary Carr and Mark Webley to work on new IP
Read More »Former Lionhead director Stuart Whyte joins Sony London
White confirms he will be leading the VR Studio in future projects
Read More »Ex-Lionhead developers unveil ‘The Sexy Brutale’
A new indie studio formed by former Lionhead developers have teamed up with Tequila Works to create a unique console game. Tom Lansdale and brothers Charles and James Griffiths have formed Cavalier Games to create The Sexy Brutale, a puzzle adventure game where the hero must join a never-ending masked …
Read More »Life After Lionhead: Former members of the closed Fable studio, four months on
In April, one of the UK’s most iconic developers closed its doors for the last time. After almost 20 years and the creation of beloved series including Fable, Black & White and The Movies, Lionhead was no more. Four months on, we catch up with some of the studio's ex-employees
Read More »Rare picks up ex-Lionhead and FreeStyleGames staff
British outlet Rare has furthered strengthened its workforce by picking up devs from studios struck by layoffs and closures. Ted Timmins will lead up PC design and development at Rare, having formerly lead design atrecently deceased studio Lionhead, as well as Another Place Productions. Among the most recent engineering additions …
Read More »Rare continues hiring spree by picking up ex-FreeStyleGames and Lionhead staff
Trio from Guitar Hero developer, former Lionhead design lead and pair of comms hires bring Sea of Thieves studio’s additions over last three months to 13
Read More »Flaming Fowl cancels Fable card game Kickstarter after securing investment
Team formed by ex-Lionhead devs had raised £59,000 of £250,000 goal before attracting anonymous backer
Read More »Ex-Lionhead devs crowdfunding a Fable digial card game
Fable Fortune was in development for 18 months, Microsoft backing the team trying to finish it
Read More »Former Lionhead devs launching Fable card game on Kickstarter
Though Fable studio Lionhead has been closed, the iconic RPG franchise is not dead yet. As reported by IGN, the developer was secretly developing a free-to-play Fable digital card game called Fable Fortune. The firm had been working on this for 18 months before the studio was shut. Now that …
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