{"id":8426,"date":"2026-05-29T19:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/fable-gets-pushed-back-into-2027-but-were-at-least-getting-a-major-new-look-at-it-at-the-xbox-games-showcase\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:03:48","slug":"fable-gets-pushed-back-into-2027-but-were-at-least-getting-a-major-new-look-at-it-at-the-xbox-games-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/fable-gets-pushed-back-into-2027-but-were-at-least-getting-a-major-new-look-at-it-at-the-xbox-games-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Fable gets pushed back into 2027, but we&#8217;re at least getting a &#8220;major new look&#8221; at it at the Xbox Games Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro_text\"><strong>Fable<\/strong> has once again slipped out of our meaty grasps, as Playground Games&#8217; grand return to Albion has been met with yet another delay. Ahead of Summer Games Fest, Xbox has confirmed that we&#8217;re going to be waiting until early next year to live out our worst morally-repugnant lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is year is packed with incredible games for Xbox players to enjoy,&#8221; the firm shares on X, &#8220;from Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War: E-Day and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 to Control Resonant, Star Wars: Galactic Racer and Grand Theft Auto 6. In order to plan our game launches through the holidays, in a way that works best for players, we&#8217;re moving Fable to February 2027 so it can have the dedicated moment it deserves. We&#8217;re excited to be giving players a major new look at Fable, as well as our broader line-up, at Xbox Games Showcase on June 7.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As alluded to, this isn&#8217;t the first time the Fable release date has been pushed back. Originally set to launch in 2025, the action-adventure game clearly wasn&#8217;t ready when Xbox revised its release window to this year. In January&#8217;s Xbox Developer Direct, it was confirmed to finally be reaching our screens this Fall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there had been whispers that Fable had been internally delayed. However, the rumor mill quickly stopped turning after Playground reiterated that a Fall launch was definitely still happening. With today&#8217;s confirmation, it appears that the leaks were correct. Now, you&#8217;ll have to grab a sharpie and mark next year&#8217;s calendar &#8211; do they even sell 2027 calendars in May?<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, as gutting as the decision is, it&#8217;s not a bad shout. As Xbox notes, the back end of this year is the most stacked one I&#8217;ve seen in a while, with triple-A monoliths going at it over the holiday period. GTA 6 is the gaming equivalent of a black hole, and I feel that its RP elements are going to really bite into Fable&#8217;s prospective sales in particular. Granted, people are still going to be pumping Rockstar&#8217;s latest by the time we get to February, but there&#8217;s a good chance folks will want to take a breather with something magical, fantastical, and indelibly British; maybe that&#8217;s just my homeland bias creeping in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fable has once again slipped out of our meaty grasps, as Playground Games&#8217; grand return to Albion has been met with yet another delay. Ahead of Summer Games Fest, Xbox has confirmed that we&#8217;re going to be waiting until early next year to live out our worst morally-repugnant lives. &#8220;This is year is packed with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2712,77,3538,6836,920,315],"class_list":{"0":"post-8426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pc-gaming","8":"tag-fable","9":"tag-games","10":"tag-major","11":"tag-pushed","12":"tag-showcase","13":"tag-xbox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}