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Following about 50 Assassin's Creed Hexe devs reportedly being taken off the game, Ubisoft say team switches are "a standard part of how we operate"

Mark Warren — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:44:53 +0000

Update to the update:Responding to Insider Gaming's report claiming around 50 Assassin's Creed Hexe devs have been moved to an interproject team, Ubisoft have issued the following statement to RPS:

"Mobility across teams is a standard part of how we operate. As project priorities change, team members may transition from one project to another where their expertise is needed, helping us stay flexible and responsive as work evolves."

New Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon games will release by early 2029 say Ubisoft, who're also dumping cash into a "first playable generative AI experience"

Mark Warren — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:42:25 +0000

While in the midst of not great financial times at the moment, Ubisoft have revealed plans to have new Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon games out at some point between now and early 2029. Boss Yves Guillemot is touting this to investors as signifying an incoming turnaround following "one of the most ambitious transformations in the company’s history", which is corpospeak for taking a bunch of money from Tencent to rearrange some corporate chairs, delaying or cancelling a bunch of games, and laying off staff.

Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe"

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:34:13 +0000

Finally, a game developer who agrees with my fervently held view that new technology makes everything worse. Celebrated designer Clint Hocking – him wot worked on Far Cry 2, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Watch Dogs Legion, and the forthcoming Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe – has publicly opined that realistic modern lighting has made life trickier for stealth game creators, because realistic lighting conditions are harder to lurk in. Now you tell me!

“I actually think one of the difficulties with modern stealth games is the sophistication in the rendering has made lighting so much more realistic,” Hocking told FRVR in an excerpt from an upcoming podcast episode. The simulation of, say, diffusion - light scattering from different surfaces – makes stealth games “so much harder to read”, he explained.