Today, Microsoft Game Studios and Lionhead Studios announced that the highly anticipated action role-playing game "Fable II" will ship to U.S. retailers on Oct. 21, 2008 and European retailers on Oct. 24, with subsequent release dates throughout the rest of the world in the coming months. Combining thrilling action, heart-wrenching emotional experiences and a genre-bending Xbox LIVE multiplayer mode, "Fable II" is the must-have blockbuster for 2008.