Ubisoft announce a trio of Assassin's Creed veterans will lead the series' "next era"

They'll signifier the "long-term vision, originative ambition, and continued growth" of the stabby games

A trio of long-time Assassin's Creed developers volition pb the bid into its "next era" present that it's nether the umbrella of Vantage Studios, Ubisoft's caller sub-company partially funded by Tencent. Martin Schelling, Jean Guesdon, and François de Billy are being handed the reins.

As outlined successful Ubisoft blog post, Schelling's taking implicit the relation of caput of the Assassin’s Creed brand. He'll beryllium liable for the bid "overall strategy and semipermanent vision" and has been credited successful accumulation roles connected each introduction since 2011’s Assassin's Creed Revelations.

Meanwhile, Guesdon's been appointed caput of contented with his responsibilities being to thrust "creative direction, enactment idiosyncratic games, and usher the aboriginal of Assassin’s Creed portion staying existent to its halfway DNA". He's worked connected the bid since Assassin's Creed 2, serving arsenic originative manager for some Black Flag and Origins.

Finally, François de Billy's been bestowed the loft rubric of caput of accumulation excellence, truthful people he'll beryllium trying to sharpen up and germinate processes connected that extremity of crippled making. His Ubi tenure successful accumulation jobs stretches each the mode backmost to the archetypal Assassin's Creed.

Martin, Jean and François person collaborated intimately connected aggregate flagship Assassin’s Creed games passim the years, crossed creative, production, and marque strategy," Ubisoft wrote. "Over the adjacent fewer weeks, they volition modulation from their existent roles to formally articulation the Assassin’s Creed enactment squad alongside Andrée-Anne Boisvert, shaper for Assassin’s Creed’s cross-brand initiatives and caput of technological excellence, and Lionel Hiller, vice president of marque and go-to-market Strategy, wherever they are acceptable to steer the brand’s ambitious caller chapter."

LinkedIn illustration updates for the exec masses it seems. These moves travel aft erstwhile Assassin's Creed bid pb Marc-Alexis Côté departed Ubisoft past year. He's subsequently sued Ubisoft for damages, alleging helium was near with nary prime but to resign, having been offered caller roles helium viewed arsenic demotions amid the circular of firm philharmonic chairs that came with the enactment of Vantage Studios.