I interviewed Charlie Brooker and he talked about Milo, and he worried that it might make older men feel like a paedophile. What do you say to that?

PM: [Grins] Well, I think it says more about Charlie Brooker than it does about Milo! I mean, here's the thing: I was very, very tight about what was actually being said about Milo and not being said about Milo. I think it did its job. It made people look around and say “How could you make a game out of a character like Milo?” And I think that question is still out there; I'm just not allowed to answer it. I might hint... Milo is a character in a bigger and more dramatic story that we're telling.

Fable III, very quickly. How has the game lore changed? Are we still in the same universe?

PM: It's very important to me that when you play Fable III, you're still in Albion, and I'll tell you what we're really inspired by – Albion is actually England. That's the way we think about it. If you look at how it's changed, it started off and we moved it 500 years forward. Fable III is 50 years on – but it's a crucial 50 years in Albion's time. It's the start of the industrial revolution, when suddenly those green leafy fields have been replaced in a lot of cases by factories, and industry, and mines, and pits, and you may look at the land and think “God, this is terrible! Where's that beautiful place gone?” You've still got all the beauty of Albion, of course, but you've now got industry being spread out, and that's really interesting. Coupled with that is that we are introducing a whole new continent, and that continent is called Arora. You can think of that continent just like when America was discovered – suddenly, the map of the world got a lot bigger, and so there was this whole new continent which will be there, which you will be going to and visiting. It's very different, and very...

Different races?

PM: Everything's different.

Everything's different. Environments, and...?

PM: Yeah.

Moving onto Project Natal quickly, I want to talk to you about Milo and how he's going to be involved in the rest of the technological advancement. Are we going to see him spread throughout different games, are we going to be able to talk to him about maybe... coming out, and being homosexual?

PM: The frustrating thing is that I am veiled. Three and a half minute experience at E3, featuring Milo, which is a character – a single character – and it was exhibiting some of the technologies that we could do with Natal. I didn't say anything more than that, and whether that was the whole game or not, and I think you'll just have to wait and see how that fits into a much, much, much bigger and much more dramatic picture.

One more question: favourite thing about Fable III?

My favourite thing about Fable III is unquestionably this thing called touch. For the first time I've seen in a computer game, reaching out and touching people, hugging people, caressing people, chastising people, whether that be non-player characters in the world or whether it be your co-op friend – it's just very unique.

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