Lionhead leaks are "old projects" (CVG 16/2/09)

ORIGINAL STORY:Two unannounced Lionhead games have leaked onto the internet, via concept art crayoned by the production design company behind Fable and Killzone 2.

Two games feature on the Leading Light Design company, which is no doubt about to get a very angry e-mail from Microsoft; one game called Justice and another called Survivors.

Justice (pictured on this page) looks like a cross between Minority Report and Blade Runner, putting the player in the role of an escaped convict searching for Redemption. The artwork for this looks incredible.

I Am Aliv... erm, Survivor meanwhile takes place in a near future where the world has been crippled by a series of disasters. Obviously not the sort of stuff we'd expect from the developer behind Black & White.

Microsoft and Lionhead are yet to officially dish out the 'no comment' on the art, but LLD's website lists the games boldly enough as "Microsoft Games/Lionhead" that it'd have to be outright lying for the games not to be Molyneux property. This isn't a mistake.

We'll let you know when Microsoft gets back to us...

UPDATE: Following the leak of two Lionhead games on the internet this weekend, the developer has contacted CVG to issue the following statement:

"They are concepts for old projects dating back a few years ago. Neither is in production now," a spokesperson for the developer said.

There you are then. A shame, but we can only hope what it's got cooking now looks even more spectacular - in art and in-game.