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You aren’t alone in wanting a new Fable<\/strong> trailer, as Microsoft Studios<\/strong> head Matt Booty wants to show it off, but Playground Games<\/strong> is understandably not quite ready yet. <\/p>\n

The new Fable was revealed back in 2020<\/a>, but as with many games these days, it was a cinematic trailer, so no gameplay to speak of. Who knows where it might be in development, but based on what Booty has said recently on a panel at PAX West<\/a>, it still needs some more time in the metaphorical oven.<\/p>\n

“Part of my job is giving air cover to the team,” Booty explained. “They don’t want to show stuff early before it’s ready to go, but if there’s one game where that’s kind of flipped around, where every time I see something I say, ‘We should show this’, it’s Fable. Because there’s a lot of cool stuff.”<\/p>\n

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You aren’t alone in wanting a new Fable trailer, as Microsoft Studios head Matt Booty wants to show it off, but Playground Games is understandably not quite ready yet. The new Fable was revealed back in 2020, but as with many games these days, it was a cinematic trailer, so no gameplay to speak of. Who knows where it might be in development, but based on what Booty has said recently on a panel at PAX West, it still needs some more time in the metaphorical oven. “Part of my job is giving air cover to the team,” Booty explained. “They don’t want to show stuff early before it’s ready to go, but if there’s one game where that’s kind of flipped around, where every…<\/p>\n

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