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Black & White

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Platforms

Mac
PC
PS1

Initial release March 25, 2001

Developers

Lionhead Studios

Genres

Puzzle
Simulation
Strategy
Strategy: Real-Time Strategy

Publishers

Electronic Arts
Midas Interactive Entertainment

Black & White Feed

Black and White screenshot showing a coastal area at sunset

Feature

Long-read | Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's harebrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI

Peter Molyneux, Google DeepMind's Richard Evans and more on a "groundbreaking" game's creation and legacy.

April 12, 2026 Lewis Gordon

Masters of Albion key art, showing a toga-wearing man, it looks like, facing a village of people, with a large god hand hovering over him. And then on the side, a black turtle-neck wearing, cropped hair-sporting white fellow smiling down at the camera. It's Peter Molyneux.

Interview

"It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds

"Here's the reality, Robert..."

Feb. 12, 2026 Robert Purchese

A quartered screen with three video call streams in it. Bertie is in one, holding up a Fighting Fantasy book. In the others are Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, the creators of Fighting Fantasy.

Podcast

The story of Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy

Good choice.

Aug. 29, 2022 Robert Purchese

Lionhead: The inside story

Feature

Lionhead: The inside story

Hear me roar.

May 13, 2019 Wesley Yin-Poole

Fable developer Lionhead Studios to shut down

News

Fable developer Lionhead Studios to shut down

UPDATE: Fable Legends beta ends mid-April. Refunds to be issued.

March 8, 2016 Tom Phillips

Black & White combined the sublime with the stupid

Feature

Black & White combined the sublime with the stupid

Where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

July 26, 2015 Rick Lane

Making friends

Feature

Making friends

Eurogamer investigates the complex world of companion AI.

Oct. 26, 2012 Christian Donlan

Peter Molyneux: Why I quit Microsoft, and why my new game will change the world

Feature

Peter Molyneux: Why I quit Microsoft, and why my new game will change the world

Did Milo's cancellation force his hand? What is his deepest regret? Plus, the issue of making promises you can't deliver. Molyneux in his first interview as an indie (again).

April 11, 2012 Wesley Yin-Poole

Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

Review

Black & White review

Review - and the "Disappointment of the Year" award goes to...

Nov. 17, 2006 Gestalt

Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

News

Lionhead goes Dutch

Black & White patch delayed by Holland fix

May 23, 2001 Gestalt

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