Molyneux Rumour Control

Gamespot has an article up looking at some of the current rumours swirling around designer Peter Molyneux. Best known for the Black and White series, Molyneux's Lionhead studio is heavily favoured to be the next acquisition target for Microsoft. He canceled a GDC session with no notice on Friday (one I was hoping to go to, I might add), and there's been much speculation since last week. From the article: "Over the subsequent month, the rumors festered. On March 3, Lionhead laid off between 50 and 100 people, and reduced its number of projects-in-development from three to two--a Black & White 2 expansion and a Fable sequel. Today, the floodgates of speculation re-opened, when Molyneux's session at the 2006 Game Developers Conference in San Jose was summarily canceled."

Comments

Hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Now let's think about this:

• Now-medicore developer riding on the wave of his impressive past
  
• Overpromises for years and years on every game, then underdelivers
  
• Lives and dies on a wave of overcharged hype

Yup. Looking at their past history, Molyneaux would be a perfect fit acquisition target for Microsoft XBox's games studios.

Re:Fable sequel?

[sammy baby]

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

The only thing I didn't like about the game was how quickly you could go shift sides from bad to good or good to bad. I wasn't too fond of running around with white armor and having every single adult propose marraige just because my attractiveness attribute was too high.

Yes, I'm sure you get quite enough of that in real life.

(I apologize. Like I said, couldn't resist.)

I have insider info on why BillG wants Molyneaux.

[master_p]

They need him to rewrite the Windows Vista interface. It is so simple guys, why do one has figured it out yet?