Ubisoft Appoints Assassin’s Creed Leadership Team Made Of Series Veterans

Ubisoft is appointing three builders to a brand new management staff accountable for the Murderer’s Creed franchise. Technically, Vantage Studios is doing the appointing, as it is the subsidiary Ubisoft established final yr to handle its highest profile franchises, together with Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six. Martin Schelling, Jean Guesdon, and François de Billy every have expertise with numerous phases of the collection’ practically 20-year historical past, however all three labored on 2017’s Murderer’s Creed Origins. Ubisoft introduced the information in a publish on its web site.

Schelling will function the Head of Murderer’s Creed Model, which is able to put him accountable for “general technique and long-term imaginative and prescient.” He is beforehand labored as a producer or model producer at numerous ranges on most video games since Revelations, together with Black Flag, Origins, and Valhalla. In line with LinkedIn, he is labored as Ubisoft’s Chief Manufacturing Officer since April 2024.

Guesdon would be the Head of Content material, which appears to be essentially the most hands-on out of the three roles. He’ll reportedly “lead [the franchise’s] inventive path, help particular person video games, and information the way forward for Murderer’s Creed.” He was the inventive director of each Black Flag and Origins, although he left Ubisoft from 2023 to mid 2024 to work at Behaviour Interactive, a studio greatest identified for Lifeless by Daylight.

Lastly, de Billy is the brand new Head of Manufacturing Excellence, tasked with broadly strengthening manufacturing practices throughout Vantage’s numerous Murderer’s Creed tasks. He was a manufacturing designer on Origins and Valhalla, however has labored at Ubisoft since 2001, and at present is its World Senior Manufacturing Director.

We loved Shadows, the newest entry within the Murderer’s Creed collection (and you may learn our evaluation of it right here). We’re nonetheless ready to see what precisely Ubisoft has in thoughts for the favored historic fiction franchise transferring ahead, however the final entry is lower than a yr previous, so it’s going to doubtless be some time. However whereas we’ve not heard about Murderer’s Creed, its guardian firm has been within the information so much in 2026, and never for good causes. You possibly can examine the way it shut down its just lately unionized Halifax studio, the way it laid off workers at Large Leisure, or the way it canceled six video games in improvement (together with the Sands of Time remake).