Earlier this year, Patrice Desilets left Ubisoft Montreal, where he had developed three editions of Assassin’s Creed, and moved to THQ’s operations in the same city. Ubisoft didn’t take that lying down, filing suit against THQ for poaching its top talent and winning a court’s decision enjoining it from doing so further.
Earlier this morning THQ confirmed that Patrice Désilets, the former creative director behind Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series, was forming a new studio in Montreal for them. Désilets emailed an open letter to Kotaku to explain why. – Ed.
Game Informer is reporting that Patrice Désilets, the creative director for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, may have left his job just as the publisher is speeding the sequelisation of the very successful franchise.
On the red carpet for the Interactive Achievement Awards here at the DICE convention yesterday, two of the top creators of the Assassin’s Creed series provided a little better sense of what the series’ surprise 2010 installment will be like.
Yesterday’s Kotaku interview with Assassin’s Creed II creative director Patrice Desilets covered a lot, but it did not reveal his thoughts on some of the more surprising and controversial parts of ACII. That’s in this post, which is all spoiler.
