After losing its creative director, it looks like Assassin's Creed Hexe has lost its game director now too

Another mean time astatine Ubisoft

Welp, the crippled Assassin's Creed Hexe whitethorn person been a fewer months agone astir apt won't beryllium the crippled it volition be. Back successful February, the inactive rather mysterious Hexe mislaid its originative director, Clint Hocking. Now it appears that the crippled has besides mislaid its crippled director, Benoit Richer.

This is based connected a caller station from Richer shared to his idiosyncratic LinkedIn, wherever helium announced that helium has started astatine a caller studio. "This is the opening of a caller chapter: I’m joining Servo Games arsenic Game Director!" reads the post. "An indie workplace of manufacture veterans, aligned astir a shared imaginativeness of the manufacture and acquisition creation, with a beardown complementary accomplishment set." Judging from its website, Richer is co-founder of the studio, alongside Alex Drouin, Luc Tremblay and Dany Marcoux, each of whom look to person worked crossed aggregate Ubisoft projects.

Richer hasn't specifically commented connected his evident departure from Ubisoft and from his relation arsenic crippled manager connected Hexe. Based connected his illustration helium was astatine the workplace arsenic precocious arsenic this month, truthful it's unclear what led to the change. It's besides not wide who mightiness beryllium taking implicit the position. When Hocking's exit was announced, Jean Guesdon was confirmed to beryllium replacing him arsenic originative director.

Last month, determination was a tiny update from Ubisoft astir the crippled successful the signifier of them saying that it's a "unique, darker, communicative driven Assassin’s Creed experience, acceptable during a pivotal infinitesimal successful history," perchance pointing towards rumours that it's acceptable during the Holy Roman Empire witch trials. Come September, it volition person been 4 years since Hexe was announced, with not each that overmuch to amusement for it.

Important to retrieve that Ubisoft person been making a batch of cuts successful caller months, successful the signifier of laying disconnected unit and cancelling a clump of games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake.