I got a lot of people asking about how you can get back your dead dog in Fable 2.

If you have got the new expansion (Fable 2 – Knothole Island) - then see this article on how to get your dog back

The rest of the article below is for those who haven’t downloaded the new expansion. 

Now, those who don’t have the new expansion, the answer is – you can’t get your lost dog back!

WARNING THE BELOW IS A SPOILER. WARNING THE BELOW IS A SPOILER.

It’s the decision you’ve made when you were give the options by the blue-light-eye lady. The three options you got was:

1) Love – revive your loved ones – your spouse, children and even your dog.
2) Sacrifice – revive all those who died in the making of the spire – but you don’t get back your dog, spouse or children.
3) Greed – a million gold and everyone else stays dead

You simply have to start a new characted all over to get your dog back.

When I played it, I choose Love. Sure, I got a lecture from Hammer about why I did that – but as I said in my review – I love my dog, and I wouldn’t want to lose him.

So, if you want your dog back - then go ahead and pay for and download the new Knothole Island expansion and sacrifice someone for your dog.

Now this is cool -

Social Gaming Network (SGN) has been around for a while making games for Facebook. Recently however, they have extended it’s development to the iPhone.

SGN made an app called iFun, that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store for free. Once installed, the app makes your iPhone behave like a Wii remote control.

So how does it work?

You load up the game on your PC from the SGN website (at this stage, golf is the only game available).

Once you’ve logged in on both your PC and your iPhone, you then swing your iPhone like a golf club (not too hard – unless you have insurance).

The app then sends data (via a wi-fi or cellular network) to the server and your ball moves as per your movement. This can be played in a social environment with other people as well.

While this currently works on the iPhone, SGN is looking to expand this to the Android-powered G1 as both phones have built in accelerometers.

SGN is looking to expand this further, by eventually allowing third party developers to build more games on their platform.

I guess we won’t need a Wii after all eh?

Come November 19th and Microsoft will unleash it’s new Dashboard to all XBOX 360 consoles.

It is expected to be completely brand new and different to the existing “blade” theme that we current 360 gamers use. Microsoft names it “The New Xbox Experience“.

Users can create avatars to represent themselves when online (similar to the Wii). Like the screenshot below, users can choose a “base avatar” and customise it from there. It is assumed that new customisation features (like clothing & accessories) will be added on in the future to enable more variety.

The new Dashboard system apparently also loads the entire game on to the Hard Drive for quicker loading and play time (however, the original DVD must still be in the drive).

The new dashboard also connects to Netflix for video content (not sure if this will have limitation in certain countries).

Microsoft seems to geared this new Dashboard towards a social networking environment as well as pushing it’s Marketplace content. Both would be revenue streams for them.

Hopefully this system will take off by the most frequent 360 gamers, though be prepared for the usual criticism.