Simon Carter announced to Gamesindustry.biz earlier that he has left Lionhead Studios. Simon Carter has been working with the Fable series even before Lionhead when he was originally with Big Blue Box as the Co-Founder. The company merged with Lionhead and Simon Carter has served since as the Lead Technical Director of action RPG's over at Lionhead. He helped create the three previous Fable games along with creating Dungeon Keeper while working with Lionhead. "The decision to leave Lionhead was a very difficult one," Simon stated. "After initiating the franchise over a decade ago I still love the world of Fable, and I'm very proud of what Big Blue Box and Lionhead achieved." Simon Carter and his brother Dene who also left Lionhead Studios are going to create their own studio focused on creating digital games for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, Steam, and creating mobile games. With the gaming industry changing and developing, Simon Carter decided there are too many opportunities for him to pursue and chose to take on a new role in gaming. "Everything is changing," "Consumer play habits, the relationship between the player and the developer, new funding and payment models; in a few years things are likely to look very different from the industry we know now." Will this have an affect on games to come by Lionhead? Probably, will we notice it? Who knows. The upcoming game in the Fable series is Fable: The Journey which was displayed at E3 strongly using Kinect.
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