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Fable III is set for its PC debut later this year and today IGN has posted up word that the hardware system requirements for developer Lionhead Studios' latest fantasy RPG have been revealed. You can check out both the minimal and recommended system specs for the game after the jump.

As we have reported earlier this year, the Fable III PC port will be released on May 17 and will include a new Hardcore difficulty mode. The game will also be the first PC game that will be released by Microsoft Game Studios since the Gears of War port back in December 2007.

PC gamers have been waiting a while for this but today Microsoft, via the Major Nelson web site, finally announced that the long awaited PC port of Fable 3 will finally be released on May 17.

This port of 2010's Xbox 360 RPG from developer Lionhead Studios will come with a couple of extra features. One is support for Nvidia's 3D Vision technology. The other is a PC exclusive hardcore play mode which gives PC gamers a choice to go even higher in difficulty while playing through the game.

This game will be Microsoft's first major PC game it will publish since the PC port of Gears of War way back in December 2007. The May 17 release date also means it will join an already crowded May in terms of new PC game releases with titles like F.E.A.R. 3, Duke Nukem Forever, Red Faction Armageddon, Brink, Dungeon Siege 3 and The Witcher 2, among others.

[Via Joystiq]

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.

That Razer concept dealie for the mobile PC game device has a ton of potential. They just need to get the right combo of hardware and price and it could sell like hotcakes.

• Steam now has the Mac port of Assassin's Creed II available for purchase. It also supports Steamplay (PC version gets the Mac port for free and vise versa).
• Steam has new automatic updates available for Swarm Arena, Ship Simulator Extreme and Rush.
• Fable III for the PC showed up with a playable build at CES this week. Sadly there's still no word of a release date.
• A panel about Thief 4 is scheduled for the 2011 Game Developers Conference. But it's just for the game's music.

The current status of Fable 3's PC port is still up in the air and developer Lionhead Studios isn't much help in giving its fan any info on what's happening with the promised version of its Xbox 360 RPG. In a new message on the studio's Twitter page, Lionhead status, "It's painful to admit we can't yet answer any questions on the PC version of Fable III... Hopefully soon we can spill the beans!."

Publisher Microsoft announced a PC port of Fable 3 in 2010 but then delayed the PC version so it wouldn't be released at the same time as the Xbox 360 version which came out last October. In November, Lionhead issued a "tweet" saying the PC port "is still in development here at Lionhead".

[Via VG247.com]

Another busy news day ends but it looks like Thursday is going to be pretty busy on its own. Stay tuned (that's a hint).

• Impulse has added Prima-created downloadable eGuides for a number of games.
• Impulse has also added support for buying gift cards to use for the service.
• Steam now has a free demo available for the just released Alien Breed 3: Descent.
• Steam also has a new patch available for Making History II.
• Yep, there's a Bus Simulator game in the works. We don't think it will be the next Minecraft.
• Lionhead "tweets" over word that the PC port of Fable 3 is still in the works.
• On this first anniversary of the release of Left 4 Dead 2, Valve gives us a look at some unseen concept art for the game's Special infected.

Microsoft has been trying to convince the media that it's really serious this time about improving its PC games business. The company hasn't published a PC game in almost three years but now has three announced PC games in the works (Fable 3, Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight).

In a chat with MCV, Microsoft Games Studios' general manager Dave Luehmann states, "It is our job to lead the way on PC. And in some ways we are doing that and in other ways we are not. So we need to step up." He says that the three games mentioned above represent " .... some real investment and big IPs behind the Windows platform." And he adds, " ... we are not going to stop there."

Earlier this week we reported that the upcoming novel for Stardock's game Elemental would have a code to download an exclusive campaign for the game. Now comes word that yet another prose novel will do something similar for Lionhead's upcoming RPG Fable 3.

The novel is titled Fable The Balverine Order and it's being written by well known comic book author Peter David. The novel, due out on October 5 from Ace Books, will not only tell a tale from Lionhead's fantasy world but will also contain a download code that can be used to unlock an exclusive but unnamed weapon in Fable 3. As we reported earlier this month the PC port of Fable 3 has been delayed from its planned release this fall with no new release date.

[Via Kotaku]

PC gamers who were expecting to play Fable III alongside their Xbox 360 counterparts got some bad news today. IGN reports that the PC port of Lionhead's upcoming fantasy RPG will not be released on October 26 at the same time as the Xbox 360 version.

According to a press spokesperson from the game's publisher Microsoft, "The console and PC versions are now on different schedules as we're focusing on building experiences optimized for each platform. We aren't announcing a ship date for the PC sku at this time, but expect news soon." As we have mentioned before, the release of Fable III for the PC will be Microsoft's first published PC game since the release of the PC port of Gears of War way back in December 2007.

Earlier today Microsoft revealed that folks who pre-order the Xbox 360 version of Fable III will get an interesting extra: the ability to create a custom NPC via a web-based interface that will be able to be placed in the game world of Lionhead Studios' upcoming fantasy RPG. It's certainly a cool concept but our question, naturally, was, "Will people who pre-order the PC version of the game get the same feature?"

We posed that question to a Microsoft PR rep and got back this rather cryptic response:

We will be offering PC players the ability to pre-order "Fable III" for Windows, and in fact, retailers such as Amazon.com and Game (UK) are taking preorders today for the PC version of "Fable III." While we have no additional details to announce at this time, it is always our goal to provide fans with the best experience possible, regardless of which platform they choose to enjoy our games on.

As you can tell that statement isn't very clear at all and when we pressed for more info we were told that is the only statement Microsoft has on the matter at this time.