Just over a month after denying a rumor that Fable would be delayed into 2027 to avoid the Grand Theft Auto 6 behemoth, Fable has been delayed into 2027 because "the year is packed with incredible games," one of which just happens to be Grand Theft Auto 6.

"Packed" is maybe overstating it a bit, based on the list rolled out by the official Xbox account on X, including Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War: E-Day, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Control Resonant, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, and—finally—Grand Theft Auto 6. Modern Warfare 4 is going to suck up some oxygen, sure, but overall I feel like it's a list that leaves room for a big-name release like Fable. Except for one of them, I suppose.

"In order to plan our game launches through the holidays, we're moving Fable to February 2027 so it can have the dedicated moment it deserves," Microsoft said. "We're excited to be giving players a major new look at Fable, as well as our broader lineup, at Xbox Games Showcase on June 7."

While we don't have a solid new release date at this point, the February 2027 target is at least a little more precise than the previous launch window of fall 2026. Will it actually arrive in February? Maybe—maybe even probably—but given that we've been talking about Fable 4, as it was known in those days, since at least 2019, which was a full-on decade after the release of Fable 3, I'm going to mark my calendar in pencil, just in case.

So, Destiny 2 is going the way of the dodo—content updates will end in June, and a Destiny 3 likely isn't even in the cards for Bungie. As someone who has had one of my favourite MMOs shut down before my eyes (and later given an official license to operate on a private server, score) I nonetheless commiserate with you.

One thing players might be asking themselves in their grief is—could the game have been saved? Are there any alternate universes in which Destiny might continue on forever. Perhaps into… infinity? This is a really cheesy segue, but the answer is yes, reportedly.

Per Paul Tassi of Forbes, unnamed sources at Bungie claim a soft reboot of D2 was considered in the aftermath of the disastrous expansion Edge of Fate: "One idea was scrapping the two-expansion model and going back to one big expansion again and renaming the game 'Destiny Infinity.' The goal there was a kind of relaunch as opposed to doing a true Destiny 3 to kickstart momentum."

The twice-yearly expansion schedule wound up being a bit contentious, because—well, it led to the aforementioned Edge of Fate, a sour-note follow up to The Final Shape, which PCG's own Destiny 2 expert (and editor-in-chief) Phil Savage called "one of the best expansions in the series' history" in his The Final Shape review.

In other words, changing to a twice-yearly expansion cycle after releasing some of your best work probably wasn't, er, the best choice.

At the very least, Marathon's just-decent performance—we're speaking in industry terms, here, it still did make quite a bit of money—can't be blamed for Destiny 2's death. Well, not entirely. Quoting one of Tassi's sources: "if the game made a billion dollars, would Destiny 2 have a chance to continue? Sure, maybe," but the report states that "no one was sitting there on launch day deciding if its performance would kill Destiny 2 or not."

I cannot say whether a return to form for Destiny 2—or a soft relaunch rebranding the entire thing—would've landed. But call it 20-20 hindsight, I do think anything would've been better for Destiny 2's playerbase than what we got. I shall pour one out for you in MMO solidarity, my friends.