You have to chuckle a little whenever Lionhead Studios pretends that it can actually keep a secret. It's kind of like how a little kid will hold something cupped between his or her hands and then look at you with a crooked grin while saying, "you can't see it," until they finally can't stand it anymore and have to show off whatever they found/caught/made. Usually, Peter Molyneux is the cause for this, as he's just so excited about some cool new feature in his upcoming game that he can't resist telling you about it. However, this time, it turns out that the confirmation of Fable III's existence is due to some careless wording in a New York Times wedding announcement.

It turns out that Amy Gilbert, a grad student studying for a PhD in molecular medicine at King’s College in London, is marrying Josh Atkins, Senior Design Director for Microsoft Game Studios. "Mr. Atkins, 34, is the lead game designer for Fable III," says the announcement, "a video game series produced by Lionhead Studios in Guildford, England." While Atkins' Moby Games page doesn't show him as working on Fable 3 as its lead designer, it does confirm his involvement with just about every major Microsoft title since Rise of Nations.

This is the second time that Fable III has recently been discovered by information about those involved with it. British media personality Jonathan Ross tweeted in March about how he had been asked to provide voice work for the game, sparking a number of rumors about the title. Of course, when a game's mentioned as being in development by the New York Times, then the realm of rumor seems to have been left behind.

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