Assassin's Creed Hexe loses 2nd director-level developer in as many months

As reported by IGN, Assassin’s Creed Hexe game director Benoit Richer has left the project. Richer is the second director-level developer to leave the team this year, with creative director Clint Hocking having departed in February.

Richer announced his career move on LinkedIn. According to the website for Servo Games, Richer is a cofounder of the new studio alongside three other former Ubisoft devs: Luc Tremblay, Danny Marcoux, and Alex Droun.

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Ubisoft has described it as being a different sort of game from the open world, action-RPG era of Assassin’s Creed that began with 2017’s Origins, but that could mean any number of things. In the more near future of the series, we finally got to see Black Flag Resynced last week, the worst-kept secret in gaming. The long-rumored Assassin’s Creed 4 remake will release on July 9, and it will apparently still have blood, if you were worried.

Assassin’s Creed’s former overall franchise boss, Marc-Alexis Côté, left the series and Ubisoft last year, and that particular break-up hasn’t been pretty: Côté has sued Ubisoft alleging “constructive dismissal” (basically getting pressured into resigning through hostile working conditions). Côté is claiming $1.3 million Canadian in damages.

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