#263 | It's FINALLY Fable Time!

Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Hobbies, Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 972 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 220 minutes

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Summary

After years of secrecy and many delays, Xbox is set to pull the lid off one of its most anticipated RPGs at the upcoming Developer Direct. First rumored in 2017 and announced in 2020, Fable has been baking at Playground Games, the prolific racing game studio, for a long, long time. Now, Xbox promises a deep dive on everything from combat and choice to British humor and chickens. Is it do or die time for Fable? How does its early year showing shake up the already packed summer showcase? Will we finally get a release date? Perhaps just a release year? Indeed, there are so many questions, but most of these will be announced very shortly! Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:06:26 - A time games did play for us0:12:04 - The Rook speaks0:14:41 - Baby Dukes on the way0:18:04 - Motivating ourselves after work0:24:22 - Would Matty interview Todd Howard again?0:36:29 - Avowed is headed to PS5 with its biggest update yet0:50:54 - Forza Bros collect their biggest win yet0:59:50 - Hellblade 3 is the focus1:10:16 - Towerborne releases February 26 for $251:16:55 - Masters Of Albion releases on April 22nd, 20261:21:39 - Crimson Desert’s map size debate1:26:07 - Is ATLUS finally revealing Persona 6 this year?1:32:43 - Division 3 will have as big an impact as Division 11:38:19 - Details on the secret Witcher 3 expansion1:42:54 - Stellar Blade Boss speaks out on AI use case1:47:59 - Meta closes several VR studios1:58:44 - Everything we learned about Divinity in Larian AMA2:19:46 - What We’re Playing2:42:16 - Developer Direct confirmed for January 22nd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Thank you. Salutations, everybody.
0:33.6	It is Maddie here today.
0:34.7	Welcome to episode 263 of Defining Duke and Xbox podcast today. I'm joined by Commander Cog himself. How are you doing today? Good sir. Commander Cog, and I approve this message. Yeah. I approve this message. Yeah, we hear. We hear, man So, yeah, a lot of things going on.
1:12.5	The perfect guy. See, health is on the docket. I think I might as well. I think a lot of health as well this week, for sure. Yeah, I might as well come clean with my situation. So, uh, yeah. Yeah, we, we talked probably prior to the cast. It's funny, it's ironic because remember we had a write in last week. and he was talking about Yo, Cog, that's dope.
1:13.9	You're doing a call-a-carcophie. It was either a write-in or someone messaged me directly. It was like, yo, not only did they do that, they had, when they did theirs, they removed polyps or something something and they caught something early. I think that was a comment.
1:28.3	Yeah.
1:28.6	Oh, it was a comment.
1:29.3	Okay.
1:29.4	I'm not bugger.
1:29.8	I thought it was.
1:30.3	Rubber the Dukes did say something. Somebody wrote him. So, yeah, you know, the boys now lining up all this doctor's appointments, 2026. Health is wealth. It's about the health as well medical doctor journey. We get everything straightened out
1:42.5	The reconstruction of Shepherd
1:43.9	in the beginning of Mass Effect
1:45.4	Yes, Mass Effect
1:46.3	Totally
1:46.8	We put it back together
1:47.4	Iron Man's getting journey. We get everything straightened out. A reconstruction of Shepard in the beginning of Mass Effect.
1:45.5	Yes, Mass Effect too. We put it back together. Iron Man's getting put back together. There we go. You know what I got the best doctors from Cerberus. You know what I'm saying? I'm doing it up. You know what I'm saying? He's not looking over. He's like, make sure. It looks a man trying to do things. You know what I'm saying?
2:01.0	He's like, all right.
2:02.3	So I'm like, all right.
2:02.8	So I'm saying?
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