Xbox showcase will not feature Fable or Perfect Dark claims insider
Technically nothing from Xbox’s showcase has leaked, but a new claim says two games in particular – Fable and Perfect Dark – won’t show up.
With the Xbox and Bethesda showcase happening this weekend, it wouldn’t be surprising for any of the big announcements to be leaked online ahead of it.
Nine secret previews have already been added to the Xbox store, but their codenames are indecipherable, so we don’t yet know which games will make an appearance.
However, it’s been claimed that neither the Fable or Perfect Dark reboots will be featured. Which is unsurprising for one and disappointing for the other.
Both games were announced in 2020 with simple teaser trailers and Microsoft hasn’t provided a real update on either of them since then.
Not too long ago, Fable studio Playground Games quashed rumours that development was in trouble, assuring that everything is going fine. Although it not having anything to show after two years isn’t a good sign – especially as the game had been rumoured for many years before that.
As for Perfect Dark, its studio, The Initiative, is said to have lost more than half of its staff and it’s suspected that Crystal Dynamics, which was brought in to assist, will more or less take the lead on development.
That’s hardly a good look when Perfect Dark is supposed to be The Initiative’s first release.
The claims come from Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb, who mentioned it on his GrubbSnax podcast, which can be viewed on Twitch (from the 14:47 mark). He simply says that neither game is ready to be shown.
‘They could’ve shown gameplay for both of these games, but they have so many other things they need to show and they need to get out that it seems right that they are going to sideline these games in favour of other
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