User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 01/17 -- ACW New Admin, key Ubisoft figure leaves AC/@comment-3980424-20120118042526/@comment-1153722-20120119122409

That guy I mentioned in that blog had been working on AC3 up to November 2010, so that means he was working on it during the development of Brotherhood. It was deleted soon thereafter. Obviously Gabe is not allowed to make any statements about that, which is why he doesn't.