Microsoft has yet to officially announce a release date for their motion control system which is currently going by the name of Project Natal. In fact, since E3, there has been very little official word on Natal at all, with the exception of a lone press release announcing which publishers were working with it. But recently, some cracks have started to leak out information about additional games that might include motion control, with the most recent coming from the bombastic head of Lionhead Studios, Peter Molyneux. In a recent interview with Game Kings, Molyneux all but confirms that Fable 3 will utilize Natal, but stops short of a full confirmation it out of a seemingly facetious fear for his life.

"I am going to say it's going to use a controller, but I've never said it's not going to use Natal. And obviously what would probably happen if I started talking about this is you would see a little red dot appear moving on my forehead. And then as I would start to speak the words then there would be a shotgun fire, and I would be assassinated. Quite clearly, it is that sensitive. Do you really think, knowing me, as maybe you do over the years, I wouldn't want to use something like Natal? I mean, that's just mad, man."

Now it's known that Microsoft has a well-earned reputation for secrecy, and for being litigious when those secrets are violated. But this may be the first time any game developer has specifically mentioned a team of stealth assassins employed by MS, whose sole job it is to follow game developers around and turn off their gas whenever they leak out sensitive information. Actually, come to think of it, I guess the title of this article should have been, "Molyneux Confirms Microsoft Employs Death Squad".

[Via Joystiq]