Microsoft also sees money in the collectible card game (CCG) genre.

Flaming Fowl Studios’ and Mediatonic’s Fable Fortune is coming to Xbox One and PC with a gameplay similar to Hearthstone, but the devs could not leave out the popular characters and the world of Albion either.

Quoting the press release, „Fable Fortune combines pioneering CCG systems with some of the franchise’s most cherished moments; featuring timeless heroes, despicable villains, armies of bemused (and conveniently expendable) peasants, and some good old-fashioned, family-friendly necromancy.

Choose from one of six heroes each sporting diverse powers and cards, and set forth to crush your opponents under a hobbe-nailed boot in either classic PVP mode or the unique and fully integrated Co-op mode. Discover how the iconic Alignment mechanic can be used to shift heroes towards a good or evil path during play; transforming their powers, altering their card effects, and turning the tide of battle in one chicken-kicking* hand.

Interested Adventurers can gain access to Fable Fortune at launch by picking up the Founder’s pack for $14.99 / £9.99 / 12,99€. Containing over $40 worth of in-game items including 20 packs of cards to open, the exclusive Flaming Fowl** Trophy Card and the very rare (You might even say ‘Fabled’) Giant Egg card. Fable Fortune will be Free to Play later in 2017, but the Founder’s Pack is available to those wanting to join us early on!”

Fable is alive, but not in a way you would have guessed like five years ago…