The team that also makes the Forza Horizon episodes now has three studios, and maybe they can finally cross the finish line with the Fable reboot that has been announced for years but is still in development.

Playground Games wrote on LinkedIn that they were founded in 2010, turning to some of the UK’s most talented and experienced developers to create genre-defining games for an international audience. Since then, five games have been created. The Forza Horizon series has won over a hundred awards and millions of fans over the last decade.

But now they are opening their third studio in Leamington Spa. The original studio will continue to support and grow the Forza Horizon community, and across town the new studios will focus on the Fable reboot to give the franchise a fresh start. The locations for the first two (Portland Street, St Albans House; Newbold Terrace, Rossmore House) are known, but not for the third. This is not relevant to us.

Playground currently has 32 open positions on the Fable team: 3C Engineer, AI Engineer, Associate Lead/Lead Environment Artist, Associate Technical Designer (Contract), Audio Programmer (all levels), Capture Artist, Community Director, Experienced Audio Designer – Cinematics (Contract), Gameplay Animator (all levels), Gameplay Engineer, Outsource Environment Artist (Contract), PC QA Technician (Contract), QA Manager, QA Technician (Contract), Quest Designer, Senior AI Engineer, Senior Animation Engineer, Senior Character Artist, Senior Cinematic Animator, Senior Environment Artist, Senior Foliage Artist, Senior Gameplay Engineer, Senior Materials Artist, Senior Narrative Designer, Senior Producer, Senior Quest Designer, Senior Rendering Engineer, Senior Systems Engineer, Senior UI Artist, Senior UI Engineer, Senior VFX Artist, VFX Artist (all levels).

That’s a lot of open positions for a Fable reboot that’s coming out in about a year and a half on Xbox Series and PC, as well as Game Pass (Ultimate subscribers will get it on launch day, of course). Maybe they just haven’t updated the open positions?

Source: WCCFTech, LinkedIn, Playground Games