Vantage Studios, the Ubisoft subsidiary that now manages the writer’s largest manufacturers, has introduced a recent management staff for Assassin’s Creed.
The blockbuster historic stabathon collection will now be led by Martin Schelling, a veteran Ubisoft producer who beforehand served senior roles on Assassin’s Creed titles comparable to Black Flag, Origins and Valhalla, and has just lately served as Ubisoft’s Chief Manufacturing Officer.
Schelling will probably be assisted by Assassin’s Creed veteran Jean Guesdon, who will assume the function of Head of Content material for the franchise. Taking care of the collection’ artistic route, Guesdon will probably be making use of the expertise he is gained as a long-term designer on the collection, engaged on greater than a dozen titles within the franchise, again to Assassin’s Creed 1 in 2007.
Lastly, François de Billy will function Head of Manufacturing Excellence, following beforehand appearing as Manufacturing Director on Valhalla and Origins.
The trio will assume their new roles over the following few weeks, and steer the franchise ahead following the sudden departure of Assassin’s Creed’s earlier boss Marc-Alexis Côté, the veteran Ubisoft worker who introduced his departure from the corporate final October, shortly after Vantage Studios management took management of the model.
Ubisoft informed employees of Côté’s departure by way of an inner e-mail that mentioned the necessity for Vantage Studios’ management staff to be “aligned” with its core targets. On the time, IGN reported that Côté had been provided a task as a part of Vantage Studios’ management, however declined.
Côté has since launched a lawsuit towards Ubisoft that claims he was basically changed in his function early in 2025 by Vantage Studios’ newly-installed management, Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot — the cousin and son of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. With this layer of administration now above him, Côté alleges he then realized over the summer time of 2025 that Vantage was now searching for to rent a brand new Assassin’s Creed franchise boss, too.
Final week, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot reaffirmed that the corporate had “a number of” Assassin’s Creed titles in growth, comprised of each single-player and multiplayer experiences. Again in 2022, Ubisoft introduced a raft of upcoming video games together with the now-launched Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the witchcraft-inspired Assassin’s Creed: Hexe (one other single-player blockbuster) and Invictus (a multiplayer sport). The corporate can also be widely-expected to announce its long-awaited Black Flag remake quickly.
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