Ubisoft started to clean house within the company, and it already has results.
We have previously discussed how Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, detailed how they will restructure the company to make sure that sexual harassment is not going to be left unnoticed within Ubisoft. We also wrote about how two people were already named as suspects behind assault and abuse allegations.
One of the people, namely Maxime Béland, has resigned. He was part of the company’s editorial team, and he had at least three accusations of assault and sexual harassment. He was already suspended due to the internal investigation, and even after his departure, it will continue. Ubisoft confirmed it to GameSpot in a statement.
They added that Tommy François, the vice president of editorial and creative services, has been placed on disciplinary leave, as there’s a second investigation is being conducted. An unnamed Ubisoft Toronto employee had been outright fired. While the French company did not name this person, we suspect it to be Andrien Gbinigie, the brand-, and product manager of Watch Dogs, who was accused of sexual assault in June (and his defence post on Medium has been removed since). „Ubisoft will not tolerate workplace misconduct and will continue taking disciplinary actions against anyone who engages in harassment, discrimination, and other behaviours that infringe on our Code of Fair Conduct,” the company claims.
Béland returned to Ubisoft in early 2020 after a minor tenure at Epic Games. Before it, he was a creative director at Ubisoft Toronto, and he was the director of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Splinter Cell: Blacklist, plus he also was in a support role for the Far Cry series.
Béland’s departure will likely have a bad impact on the return of the Splinter Cell series…
Source: GameSpot
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