'ForzaTech is the engine, tools, and pipelines that drive both the Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon series of games,' the job description says. Microsoft put out a job posting (opens in new tab) in early 2021 for a software engineer at Turn10 Studios who will focus on the Forza Tech engine. This doesn't come as a big surprise, given that Forza series developers Playground Games are developing Fable 4. As Megill said, “Narrative encompasses more than writing.” Fable 4 is using the Forza game engine While “lead writer” and “narrative lead” might sound interchangeable, narrative design is a wide-reaching discipline that shapes the player’s interaction with a game’s story. Megill has an extensive history in games narrative, having worked on franchises like Guild Wars and Dishonored, and recently as narrative lead on Control. Fable 4 picked up a new narrative leadĪnna Megill, already the lead writer on the Fable reboot, was promoted in July to Fable’s narrative lead, as Megill confirmed on Twitter. That doesn't tell us a whole lot, but it seems to reinforce that Fable's sense of humor may be one big thing that isn't changing. 'Fable’s clearly always been a little more light-hearted and a little more British, I think I could say, and I think Playground will keep it there,' Phil Spencer said in 2021.

Playground beefed up a new Warwickshire studio just for it, so this definitely isn't a small-time Fable spinoff. According to a 2018 Eurogamer report (opens in new tab), Playground had been chipping away at Fable 4 for a few years with a team of about 200 on an open-world action RPG.

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