Assassin’s Creed Hexe game director leaves Ubisoft just weeks after creative director's departure

Just a couple of months after the departure of creative director Clint Hocking, Assassin’s Creed Hexe game director Benoit Richer has left Ubisoft in order to open his own indie studio.

The details:

• As announced on LinkedIn, Richer has moved on from Ubisoft Montreal to join Quebec-based indie studio Servo Games, serving as a game director and co-founder. The new studio is described as consisting of “industry veterans, aligned around a shared vision of the industry and experience creation, with a strong complementary skill set.”
• Richer’s work at Ubisoft began in 2000, where he served as a designer on various Rainbow Six titles, including Rainbow Six Vegas 2, before leaving the publisher in 2008. He would later join WB Games Montreal in 2010 as a game director on Batman: Arkham Origins before moving back to Ubisoft in 2017 to work on Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the currently in-development Codename Hexe.
• This is the second major departure from the project this year, with Hocking leaving Ubisoft in February, who was then replaced by Assassin’s Creed head of content Jean Guesdon as part of an internal shakeup at the Tencent-backed Vantage Studios.
• Not much has been revealed about Hexe since it was originally announced back in 2022. The project was described as “a very different type of Assassin’s Creed game" and is set to be a major release for the franchise.