Game designer Peter Molyneux (Peter Molyneux) left the company Lionhead Studios, tells VG 24/7 . He also resigned as creative director of the European office of Microsoft Studios.
Peter Molyneux is the founder and director of Lionhead 1997. After his retirement Molyneux will be used as a Consultant in the development of the game Fable: The Journey . In creating other projects studio game designer will not take part. His position in the Lionhead take Mark Webley (Mark Webley), co-founder of the studio.
"I had mixed feelings at the time of adoption of the decision - prokommenitroval his departure Molyneux - but realized that now is the right time to create their own independent business." According to published in the microblog Twitter record, Peter Molyneux join the new independent studio 22 Cans.
Peter Molyneux began his career game developer in 1984, when the simulator released text on the subject of business relations The Entrepreneur. In 1987, he joined the studio Bullfrog Productions and over the next ten years, creating games like Populous, Syndicate , Theme Park and Dungeon Keeper . Reaching in 1995 as vice president ofBullfrog, he left the company, and together with Mark Webley and Tim Ransom in 1997 and founded Lionhead Studios. He led the development of Novels Black & White andThe Movies. In April 2006 Lionhead Studios was purchased by Microsoft and has become part of the gaming division Microsoft Game Studios. One of the main achievements Molyneux is a series of Fable, the first of which appeared on the Xboxconsole in 2003. All under the name of "Fable" is known six games, the last of which,Fable Heroes, was announced on March 5, 2012. During his time in the industry, Peter Molyneux has gained a reputation as a dreamer whose unrealistic concept of video games were very different from the final result.
