There is no shortage of telling you about it (almost) every week: At Ubisoft, the departures are multiplying, and so some thinkers from the major publishing series have deserted. But today the writer of Assassin’s Creed is backing down.
Last March, narrative director Darby McDevitt announced his departure from Ubisoft Montreal after 10 years working on the Assassin’s Creed franchise. After writing the portable episodes Discovery and Bloodlines for Foundation 9, McDevitt had gradually earned himself as a screenwriter to finally put on his narrative director’s hat in 2017 and thus take care of the youngest Assassin’s Creed Valhalla:
“Calm down! It was just playing around!”
But now, after only 7 months in the same position at the Montreal studio iLLOGIKA, McDevitt is announcing his return to Ubisoft.as he clarified on a famous social network yesterday:
Yes, I’m back at Ubisoft! As I thought about my career last year, I ended up focusing on my desire to explore new ideas.. To my great pleasure, I will be working on the Assassin’s Creed series again.
I look forward to continuing this journey so stay tuned!
When we know that the Valhalla adventure will continue thanks to the arrival of the new DLC 2022, the future of the series will again call for fine feathers. As a matter of fact, Ubisoft recently stated that the mysterious Assassin’s Creed Infinity “will have a lot of narrative elements” and should remain true to the series’ scripted legacy.
With the return of Darby McDevitt, the future game service of the series, the development of which has just begun, should therefore benefit from a pen known and appreciated by gamers. Will this return to the crease mean the end of the bleeding for the French publisher? Despite the goodwill promises recently made by the Canadian branch, nothing is a priori less certain …
