March 25^th, 2002 (12:00am) - According to rumour spreading through the UK today, Big Blue Box’s astonishing-looking potentially groundbreaking action-RPG has been renamed to Fable.

"We’ve been looking at a couple of different names," confirmed Big Blue Box managing director Simon Carter, although he claimed to be unaware of any definite name change for the title. "I’ve actually just come back from GDC (the Game Developer’s Conference in San Jose, USA)... I’ve absolutely no idea. I haven’t actually been back into the office to check on what the hell’s been going on."

It’s been known for some time that Big Blue Box - a satellite developer for Black & White developer Lionhead Studios - was looking for a new name for the game. Originally, the title was to be Alter Ego, although copyright issues quickly put paid to that idea.

Curiouser and curiouser. Sony has long since renamed its gothic adventure Fable to Primal, so there’s a good chance the name is actually free for use.

Lionhead could not comment on the matter today.

Thanks to CVG for the article.