A New Spin On An Old Fable

Earlier this month, Lionhead Studios officially unveiled their plans for an XBox LIVE Arcade title based on their hugely successful Fable franchise, and it was clear by the first screenshot that this will be anything but your typical Fable game.

What a Shmup! A Little History and a Lot of Bullets.

Of all the trends shaping today's gaming landscape, there's one that's really got me by the wallet, and I've decided to call it "retrofitting", because I'm just so clever. Apply new technology to an aged product, and you get a game like Sine Mora, the game I'm here to gush talk about. Before we get to that, though, I want to look briefly at what makes this game so unexpected, miraculous almost. There's a history here and it starts with the launch of Sony's Playstation, the brave gray hero who would usher in a new age.