I’m not sure this really needs to be said out loud, but Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said it out loud in a new interview with Variety and so we’re spreading the word: Yes, new Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games are in development.
“We have a solid pipeline underway across Vantage Studios,” Guilemot said. “Under the Assassin’s Creed brand, several titles are in development, spanning both single-player and multiplayer experiences, with the ambition to further grow a community that exceeded 30 million players last year.
I feel a particular lack of surprise-face in the case of Far Cry. Rumors about the two Far Cry projects—the inevitable Far Cry 7, and a live service multiplayer venture—have been floating around for a few years now.
Still, it’s nice to have it all officially confirmed and formalized in writing, I suppose, and Assassin’s Creed fans will no doubt be pleased to hear that an abundance of new games are on the way—although even there, spinoffs are hardly a new thing for the AC series.
Derennes does indeed bring an impressive CV to the co-CEO role: He’s been with Ubisoft for more than 35 years, launched and headed up its Ubisoft Montreal studio, and has credits on dozens of games. Charlie’s qualifications are somewhat less clear: Before being handed the reins on Ubisoft’s prime properties he served as studio manager and creative director on one Ubisoft mobile game—the ill-fated Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad, for which Ubisoft was eventually forced to apologize—and co-founded a Web3 gaming, AI, and NFT company called Unagi.
