{"id":694003,"date":"2026-05-25T18:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694003\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:13:12","slug":"fable-has-been-rated-for-release-in-south-korea-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694003\/","title":{"rendered":"Fable Has Been Rated for Release in South Korea, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Playground Games is yet to officially confirm a release date for Fable aside from a general Autumn 2026 window. However, this has left many wondering how the open-world RPG will deal with the juggernaut that is the November 19th release of Grand Theft Auto 6. Thankfully, it looks like the plan is to release Fable before Rockstar\u2019s title. As caught by Reddit users<\/a>, Fable has popped up on the website for South Korea\u2019s Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea<\/a>. Similarly, it has also popped up on the game ratings board\u2019s website in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both ratings boards have noted that Fable wouldn\u2019t be appropriate for minors to play, owing to the presence of \u201clanguage that directly expresses sexual acts\u201d, \u201cfrequent killing, bloodshed, and bodily mutilation using weapons\u201d, \u201cdirect criminal acts based on user choices\u201d, and \u201cexcessive use of vulgar language and profanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

While a release date hasn\u2019t been revealed through these ratings yet, looking at the last few times when a major title was rated in Korea and then was released has indicated a 4-5 month gap from rating to release. An example of this is of this\u00a0Tekken 8, which was rated in August 2023<\/a> and came out in January 2024. With that in mind, it looks like Fable might be on track for release in either September or October, handily avoiding the blast radius<\/a> that will likely be caused by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6.<\/p>\n

Playground Games recently shipped a critically-acclaimed racing game\u2014Forza Horizon 6<\/a>\u2014and announced through a social media post that it is still bolstering its team to get Fable across the finish line<\/a>. The company has advertised job openings across engineering, design, community, cinematics, and production divisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the incredible launch of Forza Horizon 6 this week, the excitement across the studio is sky-high,\u201d wrote the studio. \u201cBut we\u2019re not done yet. With Fable coming later this year, we\u2019re continuing to recruit across multiple disciplines to bring more exceptional talent into the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

XBOX CCO Matt Booty had revealed last month that the development of Fable has been a team effort across Xbox Game Studios, with Blizzard\u2019s cinematics team helping out with creating the cinematics in the upcoming RPG<\/a>. Discussing how studios under the Xbox Game Studios banner had been working together, Booty also noted that Rare had been helping Double Fine out with Kiln, owing to the former\u2019s experience with multiplayer games.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the case that we have got a lot of different kinds of studios, and they\u2019ve all got their own cultures, so we think of it as a culture of cultures,\u201d he explained. \u201cI see a big part of my job is to provide just enough connection and just enough structure across those that they can communicate with each other, they can share things back and forth, but never to the point that we\u2019re coming in over the top trying to change who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got the Blizzard cinematics team helping out on Fable,\u201d Booty continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve got our studio in Montreal, Compulsion Games, using the Activision Mo Cap studio. We\u2019ve got the team at Rare with a lot of multiplayer experience working on Sea of Thieves, helping out Double Fine on Kiln, the pottery game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playground Games is yet to officially confirm a release date for Fable aside from a general Autumn 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-694003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}