Xbox releases four minutes of Fable gameplay for 25th anniversary

Xbox released four minutes of new gameplay for Fable on 2026-11-12 to mark its 25th anniversary. Playground Games is developing the title.

Fable · official art via IGDB

In a post on Xbox Wire, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma discussed the history of the brand and the future of the industry. Sharma noted that the first Microsoft Flight Simulator used 160 KB of data, 2D graphics, 16 colors, and 20 airports. By comparison, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 uses more than 2.5 petabytes of data and a 200-million-square-mile map.

Sharma said the relationship between the scale of creation and the resources required is changing. She said small teams will soon be able to build worlds that currently need many developers and a lot of money. Sharma said Xbox intends to deliver great games and unmistakable hardware to support these ambitions.