Murderer’s Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté has departed Ubisoft after greater than twenty years with the corporate, having most lately overseen the event and launch of Murderer’s Creed Shadows.
In accordance with a press release given to IGN by Ubisoft itself, Côté, who’s affectionately referred to as “Mac” inside Ubisoft because of his initials, has “chosen to pursue a brand new path elsewhere exterior of Ubisoft”.
His choice follows the setup of a model new firm, Vantage Studios, to deal with a few of Ubisoft’s most worthwhile IP, together with Murderer’s Creed. The corporate is headed up by Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot, resulting in accusations of nepotism for the reason that latter is the son of Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot.
Murderer’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté has left Ubisoft after over 20 years.Per IGN, in an inner Ubisoft memo, Derennes advised employees that he was “upset” by Côté’s departure and that Côté “had his personal expectations and priorities associated to Vantage Studios’ creation and future”.
That is not a lot to go on, nevertheless it sounds as if Côté could have butted heads with Derennes and Guillemot over the route of both Vantage Studios as an entity or Murderer’s Creed as a franchise (or maybe each). It is laborious to say.
Côté has labored on the Murderer’s Creed franchise since 2010’s Brotherhood, the place he served as lead stage designer. He labored as Murderer’s Creed 3’s director, happening to turn into the artistic director for titles like Syndicate and Odyssey.
His departure comes at a busy time for the Murderer’s Creed franchise, with a significant story DLC launching for Shadows simply final month and an enormous free replace on the way in which for the Baghdad-set Mirage in November.
A giant free replace is coming quickly for Murderer’s Creed Mirage.Moreover, Côté’s exit from Ubisoft comes after a report that the corporate canceled an in-development Murderer’s Creed sport set within the Reconstruction-era Southern US final 12 months, citing issues across the present political local weather within the nation.
It stays to be seen what impact Côté’s departure may have on the Murderer’s Creed franchise and on Ubisoft as an entire. Keep tuned for extra on this.
