Fable II online co-op patched

During Microsoft's 2008 Game Developers Conference keynote address, Lionhead Studios founder Peter Molyneux wowed audiences with Fable II's online co-op functionality. With it, he demonstrated how gamers could instantly be summoned into a friend's gameworld by way of their Xbox Live gamertag.

It's an interesting feature, but unfortunately, Microsoft revealed a little more than three weeks ago that it would not be included on the discs that gamers buy at retail. For Lionhead's part, Microsoft said that the studio was diligently at work to release the patch that would enable online co-op for North American audiences sometime during the first week of Fable II's release.

Today, Microsoft said that Lionhead has delivered, and the online co-op feature will be available as a free download alongside the game's North American release tomorrow. With the game's October 24 European release looming, the publisher noted that the patch will be available to audiences worldwid

Great, now at least I can get co-op set up straight away, me and my younger sister loved the original game, co-op slaughtering a group of villagers shall be that much more fun.

Couch Co-op is included when the game comes out. It's online co-op that the patch is for.

Been patched weeks before they announced it though.