Murderer’s Creed Hexe loses 2nd director-level developer in as many months

As reported by IGN, Murderer’s Creed Hexe sport director Benoit Richer has left the mission. Richer is the second director-level developer to depart the group this yr, with inventive director Clint Hocking having departed in February.

Richer introduced his profession transfer on LinkedIn. In accordance with the web site for Servo Video games, Richer is a cofounder of the brand new studio alongside three different former Ubisoft devs: Luc Tremblay, Danny Marcoux, and Alex Droun.

On February 25, we reported on the departure of Hexe’s inventive director, Clint Hocking, who was instantly changed with Murderer’s Creed 4: Black Flag director Jean Guesden. Ubisoft has not but publicly shared Richer’s alternative as sport director on Hexe.

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Any variety of issues could possibly be happening behind the scenes of Hexe’s improvement, however back-to-back departures in a group’s senior management isn’t an indication issues are going nicely. Hexe stays an entire thriller in any other case: It is received distinctly witchy vibes, each with its title, in addition to the creepy twig model of the Murderer log featured in its 2022 reveal trailer.

Ubisoft has described it as being a unique form of sport from the open world, action-RPG period of Murderer’s Creed that started with 2017’s Origins, however that might imply any variety of issues. Within the extra close to way forward for the sequence, we lastly received to see Black Flag Resynced final week, the worst-kept secret in gaming. The long-rumored Murderer’s Creed 4 remake will launch on July 9, and it’ll apparently nonetheless have blood, if you happen to have been frightened.

Murderer’s Creed’s former general franchise boss, Marc-Alexis Côté, left the sequence and Ubisoft final yr, and that individual break-up hasn’t been fairly: Côté has sued Ubisoft alleging “constructive dismissal” (mainly getting pressured into resigning by means of hostile working circumstances). Côté is claiming $1.3 million Canadian in damages.