It is never a good sign when a game announced four years ago keeps making headlines because people are leaving it…
Assassin’s Creed Hexe director Benoit Richer has left the project. Richer is already the second high-ranking developer to depart the team this year, following creative director Clint Hocking, who left in February. Richer announced his new career direction on LinkedIn. According to the Servo Games website, he is now co-founding the new studio alongside three other former Ubisoft developers, Luc Tremblay, Danny Marcoux, and Alex Droun.
At the end of February, we reported on the departure of Hexe creative director Clint Hocking, who was immediately replaced by Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag director Jean Guesdon. Ubisoft has not yet announced who will replace Richer as game director on Hexe. Whatever is happening behind the scenes, a steady chain of exits among the project’s leadership is rarely a sign that development is going smoothly. Hexe itself remains a complete mystery in the meantime. It clearly carries a witchy atmosphere, both because of its name and because of the eerie branch-like version of the Assassin logo that appeared in its 2022 reveal trailer.
Ubisoft previously described it as a game that would move away from the open-world action-RPG direction that began with Assassin’s Creed Origins in 2017, but that can still mean a lot of different things. In the nearer future for the series, we finally got a proper look last week at Black Flag Resynced, one of the gaming industry’s worst-kept secrets. The long-rumored Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, a remake of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, launches on July 9, and we also recently wrote that blood will not be missing from it.
The former franchise head of Assassin’s Creed, Marc-Alexis Côté, left both the series and Ubisoft last year, and that split was not especially clean either. Côté sued Ubisoft on grounds of “constructive dismissal,” which essentially means he claims hostile working conditions forced him to resign. He is seeking 1.3 million Canadian dollars in damages.
Source: PCGamer, LinkedIn, Servo Games
