The boy yawned, the pillow he laid on just too comfortable for his own good. Bored he looked over at the calendar at the opposite end of his room. Red X's covering the majority of the dates while near the very bottom a certain box stood, a thick red circle drawn around it.

"Two more weeks" he thought to himself, outside his window was a darkened sky. Leaving him nothing to see except for his lightened room as he laid on his bed.

He then looked down at his stomach, laying flat on his blue shirt was the same article he had read countless times in the last week. Feeling a warm sense of happiness when gazing upon it he decided to do another run through before bed.

"With likely the biggest entertainment launch in history around the corner, we here at GameInformer would like to take a look back onto where it all started.
While the effect on the gaming industry has been wonderful and well felt with the current 9th generation of consoles equipped with virtual reality, only one question was on peoples minds a few years ago. Who will make the first Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (VRMMORPG)? This question was answered when the creator of the NerveGear, (the prime virtual headset device used by all gamers) Adrian Black, unveiled his next big project.

Black's fondness for the Fable franchise was always apparent to his many gaming fans, but in August of 2019 Lionhead Studios closed its doors. Causing Adrian to make one of the most controversial and now celebrated moves ever known to occur in the industry.

For an undisclosed sum the multi-millionaire quickly acquired the (at the time) small gaming studio just weeks after it officially shut its doors, due to a severe lack of sales with Fable V. This caught the attention of many big wigs in the industry, including the founder of the wildly successful industry innovator 22 cans, Peter Molyneux.

"I can honestly say I'm happy for them, ignoring my past history with the studio it's nice to see someone keeping the old rusty machine running" He apparently said at E3 2019 just months after the purchase, though no official recording has never been found.

Of course as we all know this quickly was overshadowed when in October Black announced likely the most important gaming innovation since the invention of the controller, Virtual Reality. This quickly created a massive wave of excitement among gamers, single-handedly drawing the focused attention of a multi-billion dollar industry or as a anonymous employee of a very popular search engine put it.

"That day searches for Adrian Black and Virtual Reality on Google shot up over 4000% within 48 hours of the announcement, the highest spike we've ever recorded in our history".

Indeed the world seemed to be at Adrian's feet for the next year, right up until the NerveGear's release date alongside the next-gen systems, November 10th 2020. Facing the hype of literally hundreds of millions of people Adrian delivered. Stunning photo realistic graphics with a fully tangible environmental system impressed critics across the board. Getting 10/10s from IGN, Gamespot, 1up, GameTrailers, Destructoid, The Escapist and even the most hardy of reviewers. The one who started his career from Youtube, Angry Joe.

This release was of course followed by a host of endless games, what the first few lacked in quality was quickly overturned when studio greats like Naughty Dog, Bethesda and even Valve began pumping out top notch titles. Journalist's from all over the industry unanimously declared this the golden age of gaming as a rush of perfectly crafted virtual reality games flooded the market place. That year Adrian Black's net worth shot up to an earth shattering 6.2 billion dollars, instantly crowning him the undisputed champ of the 9th generation of gaming. Though as we all know, this was only the beginning.

The date is June 7th, 2021, the location is the E3 expo. Now at this point rumors had been circulating quite wildly ever since the name "Fable Online" had been licensed by Lionhead while simultaneously the work force of the studio ballooned to an incredible 1000 developers. Of course no official information had been released until this fateful day, The day that Black announced his new project, the worlds first VRMMORPG.

For the next year it seemed like the NerveGear all over again, with every human who had an ounce of nerd in them fangasiming over the game and the billionaire. We here at GameInformer like to think this is where Adrian got his internet nickname of "God". The impact was ridiculous, from the nearly dead World of Warcraft to the latest MMO king DiamondFire entire guilds planned moves to Fable Online as more and more stunning gameplay footage was let loose upon the masses.

Though some of the more hardcore Fable fans found it odd that Black had chosen an altered Fable II world for the setting their fears were quickly resolved when they realized he actually was an active member on the forums. Answering questions on the spot while boasting a post count averaging at 17 posts a day. A level of dedication that hadn't been seen since the dawn of the industry.

And now here we stand at present time, like all you readers out there our entire team anxiously awaits the launch of this MMO! Due to Adrian's insistence that no reviewers player before the gamers themselves we will be there right alongside all you guys!"

The boy let the magazine fall flat on his shirt again, a broad smile now stretching across his face as he stared at his ceiling. Dreaming of what a mighty hero him and his two friends would be, the adventures they will have and the people they will meet.

"October 26th, the day my life will finally begin.."