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Article: Microsoft Game Studios Acquires Video Game Luminary Peter Molyneux's Lionhead Studios.

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April 6, 2006
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Lionhead's Hit Franchise 'Fable' Surpasses 2 Million Unit Sales Milestone

REDMOND, Wash., April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) today announced it has purchased U.K.-based Lionhead Studios, one of the world's leading and most innovative video game developers and creators of "Fable(R)," the hit Xbox(R) and Windows(R) franchise.

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Lionhead Studios will immediately begin creating content exclusively for the Xbox 360(TM) and Microsoft(R) Windows platforms. The companies previously worked together on the popular role-playing games "Fable" for Xbox and "Fable: The ...

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