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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.

The team at Lionhead Studios has mostly concentrated on making console games for the Xbox 360 in the last few years but its founder Peter Molyneux started out as a PC game designer, making classic games like Dungeon Keeper and others. However, in a video chat with our sister site Switched Molyneux stated that the PC as a platform for games is getting a second life (so to speak).

And just what is causing this rebirth of PC games? Facebook. Molyneux feels that the massive player success of games like Farmville shows that "gaming is being reborn on the PC." He adds, "I don't see why all those others like AAA blockbusters can't incorporate that sort of level of interaction."

Earlier this month we reported on rumors, based on a job application, that the upcoming Xbox 360 fantasy RPG Fable 3 from developer Lionhead Games might also be coming to the PC. Microsoft's official response to the rumor ("We have nothing to announce at this time.") was not a confirmation but it was not a denial either. At GDC 2010, Lionhead's head man Peter Molyneux had a panel chat about the game and during the Q&A session the PC port rumor came up.

According to our sister site Joystiq, Molyneux is quoted as saying, "I love what's happening to the PC, and I would love to see the Fable franchise on the PC." He was apparently afraid to get more specific than that, saying that the game's publisher Microsoft had "PR police people ... with sniper rifles." Of course they do.