One of many upcoming Murderer’s Creed sport, Murderer’s Creed codename Hexe, will proceed improvement with out its sport director. Benoit Richer introduced that he left Ubisoft Montreal after 9 years to co-found his personal firm. Richer is simply the newest massive title to go away Hexe, following artistic director Clint Hocking’s exit earlier this yr.
Writing on LinkedIn, Richer mentioned, “That is the start of a brand new chapter.” He’ll turn into sport director at Servo Games, an unbiased studio in Quebec that’s specializing in single-player “atmospheric experiences with top-tier visuals, industry-defining character animation, and meticulously refined controls.” The studio is constructing video games utilizing Unreal Engine 5 and focusing on current-generation consoles and PC.
Richer based Servo Video games alongside Alex Drouin, who began at Ubisoft Montreal when it opened its doorways in 1997. He led the animation groups for Value of Persia: The Sands of Time and Murderer’s Creed, and would later depart to start out THQ’s Montreal studio (which Ubisoft finally acquired). The opposite co-founders at Servo embrace different former Ubisoft veterans Luc Tremblay and Dany Marcoux.
Richer and Hocking left Ubisoft across the time that the corporate put in new leaders for the Murderer’s Creed staff at Vantage Studios, the subsidiary liable for guiding Murderer’s Creed (and Far Cry and Rainbow Six) into the longer term. Jean Guesdon, the director of Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Origins, is taking on for Hocking as artistic director on Hexe, however there isn’t any phrase on who could change Richer as sport director.
Hexe stays largely a thriller, but it surely’s been described as “a really totally different kind of Murderer’s Creed.” The sport is reportedly targeted on witchcraft and the occult, and can enable gamers to own a cat.
There are a number of different new Murderer’s Creed sport within the works, together with the PvP sport Invictus, the cellular sport Jade, and a brand new sport with co-op components.
Ubisoft has undergone vital upheaval of late. The corporate enacted mass layoffs and canceled a handful of video games as a part of a dramatic cost-cutting effort. Trying forward, Ubisoft is now engaged on a number of new Far Cry and Murderer’s Creed video games, together with “a number of” new IPs.
One in every of Ubisoft’s newest massive bulletins was Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag Resynced, a remake of the 2013 sport for contemporary platforms, and it releases this July. For tons extra, be sure you take a look at the gallery beneath to see 10 methods the remake differs from the unique.