Clint Hocking, the inventive director of the upcoming Murderer’s Creed sport, Codename Hexe, has left Ubisoft, VGC understands.
The information was shared with employees this week in an inside assembly helmed by the Murderer’s Creed franchise’s newly-announced management workforce.
Improvement on Hexe will proceed with out Hocking, Ubisoft stated. Jean Guesdon, the brand new head of content material for the Murderer’s Creed model, will take over the undertaking as inventive director. Guesdon beforehand directed Murderer’s Creed Origins and Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
Hocking has labored at Ubisoft throughout two stints since 2001. Notably, he was the inventive director behind Splinter Cell: Chaos Idea, Far Cry 2, and Watch Canine: Legion.
“We sincerely thank [Clint] for his imaginative and prescient, inventive contributions, and dedication over time, and we want him the perfect in his subsequent chapter,” a spokesperson informed VGC. “Improvement on Murderer’s Creed Codename Hexe continues with a seasoned workforce.
“The sport will ship one thing distinctive inside the Murderer’s Creed franchise,” it added. “We sit up for sharing extra data sooner or later.”
Introduced in 2022, Murderer’s Creed Hexe was billed as “a special expertise” from typical Murderer’s Creed entries, with a deal with horror parts.
Talking to VGC when the undertaking was introduced, Ubisoft’s then-franchise boss, Marc-Alexis Cote, stated Hexe was “a bit additional out” than different introduced initiatives, which included final yr’s Shadows.
Alongside Ubisoft itself, the way forward for the Murderer’s Creed sequence is seeing nice upheaval behind the scenes. Just lately, operating of the franchise was taken over by a newly-established subsidiary, Vantage Studios, which is partly owned by Tencent.
Marc-Alexis Côté, a franchise veteran of practically 20 years, left Ubisoft in October. Nevertheless, he later introduced his intention to sue his former employer, claiming he didn’t resign and was “requested to step apart”.
And final week, Ubisoft introduced the longer term management workforce for the Murderer’s Creed sequence, which will likely be comprised of bosses behind 2013’s Black Flag, together with Martin Schelling, Jean Guesdon, and François de Billy.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot just lately confirmed that the corporate is engaged on a number of Murderer’s Creed and Far Cry video games, spanning each single-player and multiplayer.
“We now have a strong pipeline underway throughout Vantage Studios,” Guillemot stated. “Underneath the Murderer’s Creed model, a number of titles are in growth, spanning each single-player and multiplayer experiences, with the ambition to additional develop a group that exceeded 30 million gamers final yr.”
Final month, Ubisoft detailed a ‘main reset’ on the firm, which can see its inventive groups radically restructured into autonomous ‘inventive homes’. The writer can also be rolling out a cost-cutting initiative, which has to date resulted in the cancellation of six video games, the postponement of seven others, and two studio closures.
