Fable 2 is talkative: Works with three XBLA games (also, tough achievements)

Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux may be a bit of a hype machine at times, but he’s certainly got some smart ideas. As part of his plan to make games "talk" to each other, it has been revealed that not one, not two, but three upcoming XBLA games will be compatible with Fable 2 — as money won in the former can be transferred as funds in the latter.
"The idea is this," Molyneux explains. "Carbonated Games, part of Microsoft, have made some great casual games, Arcade titles. They have got three titles, one call Keystone, one called Wizard’s Tower and one called Mage Dice. Why not make those what we call ‘Fable-compatible’? And that means that when you play those [semi-gambling] games, when you win, you win Fable gold, and you can transfer that Fable gold to Fable when you buy Fable. If you’ve already got Fable, the money will transfer automatically. […]

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