Another senior exit hits Assassin’s Creed Hexe
Game director Benoit Richer has left the project after creative director Clint Hocking stepped away in February, and Ubisoft has not named a replacement.
Assassin’s Creed Hexe has lost another senior hand. Game director Benoit Richer has left the project, making him the second director-level developer to exit the game this year after creative director Clint Hocking stepped away in February.
IGN reported Richer’s exit, and Richer also posted about the move on LinkedIn. On Servo Games’ website, Richer is listed as a cofounder of the studio alongside former Ubisoft developers Luc Tremblay, Danny Marcoux, and Alex Droun.
Ubisoft has not said who will take Richer’s place on Hexe. The game is still one of the publisher’s quieter Assassin’s Creed projects, even after its 2022 reveal trailer on YouTube showed the series’ assassin emblem in a creepier, twig-like form. Ubisoft has described Hexe as something different from the open-world action-RPG stretch that began with 2017’s Origins, but the details remain thin.
The rest of the series is moving faster, with Black Flag Resynced due on July 9. Hexe, by contrast, is still being kept largely under wraps.
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