Lionhead Studios Ltd.

Overview

LionHead Studios was founded by Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley, Tim Rance and Steve Jackson in July 1997, coming from Bullfrog Productions. The company is headquartered in Surrey, England.

Around 2000, the company started offering companies to become a Lionhead satellite studio, to work on games under guidance of Lionhead as a main company:

• Big Blue Box Studios (eventually merged into Lionhead)
• Intrepid Computer Entertainment Ltd. (until October 2004)
• Black & White Studios (separate division, not really a satellite studio)

So far, the company has worked with three franchises: the strategical god games in the Black & White series, the Fable RPGs, and the creative film industry simulation The Movies.

On 6th April 2006, the company was acquired by Microsoft Game Studios. Since then, the Fable franchise has been continued with Fable II in October 2008.


Contributed by Jeanne (59132) on May 16, 2004. [revised by : Sciere (120272)].