Playground’s Fable will get Control, Dishonored author 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 Control.

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 sport. “Some exciting news to end the week,” wrote Megill. “I’m now the narrative lead on Fable. Wooo!”

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

Fable 4, or no matter it is likely to be ultimately referred to as, was revealed nearly two years in the past through a cinematic trailer, and we’ve not heard a lot in regards to the sport since then. Which is clearly comprehensible, on condition that complete pandemic scenario.

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

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

The most up-to-date entry within the Fable sequence was a free-to-play collectible card sport referred to as Fable Fortune in 2018, however that shut down in 2020. Prior to that, the sequence was meant to obtain a brand new entry referred to as Fable Legends, however that was in the end cancelled.