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Peter Molyneux is going to be hard to miss when it comes to picking up awards next month. The creator of classic PC games like Populous, Dungeon Keeper and many others is already set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award next week at the Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC 2011.

Now comes word that the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) will also be honor Molyneux with its Academy Fellow honor during the BAFTA's annual game awards to be held on March 16. In a statement Molyneux states, "I remember back in 1967 watching the first BAFTA awards on television with my family and seeing them being so excited about those accolades. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think it would be possible for me to accept one of the greatest honours the entertainment industry has to offer."

PC gamers are still awaiting the promised PC port of Molyneux' latest game, the RPG Fable 3, from his Lionhead Studios team.

Peter Molyneux, one of the true pioneers and innovators in the PC game industry, will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2011 Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony. The event will be held on March 2 as part of the 2011 Game Developers Conference.

The UK native Molyneux co-founded Bullfrog Productions in 1987 where he helped to create a number of classic PC games including Populus, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper and many other titles. He left Bullfrog and founded Lionhead Studios in 1997 which made the Black and White titles and The Movies for the PC. While he has moved away from the PC platform in favor of the Xbox and Xbox 360 with the Fable RPG series, Molyneux will return to the PC platform in 2011 with the planned release of a PC version of Fable 3.

Dungeon Keeper is one of the PC gaming classics. it combines hilarious situations, wonderfully stylized characters, and interesting gameplay into a tight package that is still incredible. Kalypso is aiming to resurrect the franchise in much the same way they did with Tropico, and their latest trailer for Dungeons shows off some of the new gameplay. We can only draw two conclusions from it, though. First, the developers really like Dungeon Keeper, since the game looks almost identical (not that it's a bad thing). The second is that it apparently runs pretty poorly, because the trailer has noticeable frame-skipping throughout. Still, we love classic games like this!

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Dungeon Keeper is one of those timeless strategy games that ever PC gamer should play. Despite its age, it is still fun - and relevant - in the modern era. Kalypso is reviving the franchise, in a manner of speaking, and their revival is aptly titled Dungeons. While there hasn't been much revealed in the way of gameplay, it's promised that the game will be very similar to Dungeon Keeper, which can never be a bad thing. This particular trailer doesn't actually show anything about the game, but rather the gist of what you will be doing as an overlord: mining to peons, hiding your treasure from heroes, and murdering the ones that get too close.

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In December 2008 it was revealed that the Dungeon Keeper franchise was being revived but as an Asian-based MMO game. There hasn't been any word on the progress of that game since that announcement but this week some info and concept images from the title have come forward.

The game's official web site has gone live that show some concept art that at least look somewhat like what we would imagine a Dungeon Keeper Online game might look like but with an Asian art twist. MMO Culture has translated what's on the site for us English users, saying the game will be a full 3D title and will keep the original game's premise of playing a bad guy that is building his underground dungeon empire. There's no word on when the game might launch or if it will come to the US.

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Before Peter Molyneaux was known for grand, sweeping statements about his games that he often failed to deliver on, he headed up the tiny studio known as Bullfrog, one of the originators of the god game genre. With games like Populous or Theme Hospital, Bullfrog helped to establish sandbox, open-ended games as a viable way to entertain. One of their best known, and best overall, games is Dungeon Keeper. A strange look into the seedier and hilarious side of adventuring, it was a big hit when released and is still a fantastic game, especially for strategy fans that are looking for something a little different from the normal, modern fare.

One of the most beloved PC game franchises in history is coming back, but not in the form that most gamers might have wanted. The franchise is Dungeon Keeper, the strategy game where you are the bad guy in a fantasy universe setting traps and monsters to defeat the AI controlled heroes. Developed by Peter Molyneux at his original game developer Bullfrog, the original game was released in 1997 with a sequel released in 1999 (Molyneux had left Bullfrog to form Lionhead Studios soon after the completion of the first game in the series)

Today the Chinese game publisher NetDragon Websoft announced that it has acquired the rights from Dungeon Keeper's current owner Electronic Arts to create Dungeon Keeper Online, an MMO title that will be made strictly for the Asian game market (although the press release does say it's possible it could be released to other markets as well). Details of the game itself haven't been revealed but the license allows NetDragon to use the "themes, characters and other game content" of the Dungeon Keeper series. In the meantime Western gamers will have to make due with the Overlord games which have some of the themes of Dungeon Keeper.