Playground’s Fable gets Control, Dishonored writer as new narrative lead

Playground’s upcoming Fable has a brand new narrative lead, one which has a robust historical past together with titles like Management.

Anna Megill, award-winning author and narrative designer, introduced the information on her private Twitter account that she is now narrative lead on the subsequent Fable recreation. “Some thrilling information to finish the week,” wrote Megill. “I am now the narrative lead on Fable. Wooo!”

Megill’s work is extremely broad, having labored on Dishonored: Dying of the Outsider, Guild Wars 2, and the upcoming Avatar recreation from Ubisoft. She’s additionally the one chargeable for these dolls that solely belong in your nightmares from Management.

Fable 4, or no matter it may be ultimately referred to as, was revealed nearly two years in the past through a cinematic trailer, and we have not heard a lot in regards to the recreation since then. Which is clearly comprehensible, provided that entire pandemic state of affairs.

That trailer wasn’t precisely a lot of a trailer both, so we’ll simply need to hope that we get a style of one thing sooner moderately than later. There was a hearsay that emerged across the announcement that instructed that this new Fable might doubtlessly be an MMO moderately than a basic RPG. Once more, we have not heard something concrete since its announcement so that is nonetheless simply hypothesis in the interim.

Whereas Fable did miss out on showing on the Xbox and Bethesda video games showcase final month, Xbox will likely be showing at Gamescom subsequent month, so it might at all times present up there. The brand new Fable is being developed by British developer Playground Video games, finest identified for the Forza sequence, so the place higher to point out it than a European video games conference.

The newest entry within the Fable sequence was a free-to-play collectible card recreation referred to as Fable Fortune in 2018, however that shut down in 2020. Previous to that, the sequence was meant to obtain a brand new entry referred to as Fable Legends, however that was finally cancelled.