Fable II: Kingmaker, a geo-tagging smartphone game released in Europe on October 1, 2010. Players are offered to choose between two factions, a Royal or a Rebel and fight for real territories in their neighborhood. The game’s publisher Microsoft has revealed that a million flags have been planted by over sixty thousand players since its release and is staging a wide territorial competition via the virtual arena.
The application allows gamers to plant a virtual flag utilizing the GPS ability by tagging their locations on their smartphones and earn gold which can be used in the full client of Fable III. Currently over sixty four million gold pieces have been claimed by the players from all over Europe.
Irrespective of what gamers spend the gold on, whether it is buying a new gypsy caravan, save and invest in an industrial empire that recruits the players’ loyal minions or buying a crate of wine in a friend-finding mission, the gold in Fable II: Kingmaker is on the gamers’ expediency. Hidden treasures can be unearthed all around, finding which rewards their hunters with up to five thousand pieces of gold. Until now, over eighteen thousand treasure chests have been excavated and unlocked by the game’s players.
Fable III: Kingmaker is scheduled to be made accessible for Windows Phone 7 users sometime this holiday and is presently obtainable for over sixty devices running various different operating platforms. Apparently, the game is restricted to players situated across France, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom. The original game ‘Fable III’ will be releasing across UK on October 29, 2010.