REDMOND, Wash. — April 6, 2006 — Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) today announced it has purchased U.K.-based Lionhead Studios, one of the world’s leading and most innovative video game developers and ...

Microsoft bought Lionhead, the well-respected studio behind games like “Black and White” and “The Movies,” in 2006, and acquired Press Play in 2012. The closures will end work on Lionhead ...

Following weeks of speculation, Microsoft today confirmed that it has purchased Lionhead Studios for an undisclosed sum. Best known for its Black & White and Fable series, the Guildford-based ...

Microsoft garnished a big E3 presentation with the news that it had formed a new studio in Santa Monica called The Initiative, and perhaps more notably, bought four game developers. Ninja Theory ...

Microsoft announced that it has acquired Peter Molyneux's Lionhead Studios, which will now develop for Xbox 360 and Windows exclusively as a part of Microsoft Game ... as Black & White and The ...

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday said its in-house video game studio acquired Lionhead Studios, the British developer started by the famed game maker Peter Molyneux. Most recently, Lionhead was ...

The acquisition was announced jointly on Thursday by Microsoft Game Studios and U.K.-based Lionhead, the developer of such hit titles as "Fable," "The Movies," "Black & White" and others.

Peter Zetterberg is business development manager for Microsoft Game Studios, Matthew White is creative director of Microsoft Game Studios. Interview by Matt Martin.