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Assassin's Creed director says "Black Flag reused like 80% of Assassin's Creed 3," and the games industry should rely on asset reuse even more: "Maybe the future is, to use the dirty word, AI vibe-coding"

"You kind of want to see the asset reuse in a way"

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Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'

Is that developer actually lazy for leaning on an old reload animation, or are they simply smart?

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Assassin's Creed 3 director discusses the disastrous launch of Skull and Bones, says the 'junior' devs didn't have enough experience and were 'trying to essentially make Black Flag crossed with World of Tanks or World of Warships'

Alex Hutchinson, creative director of Assassin's Creed 3 and Far Cry 4, has discussed what went wrong with the launch of Skull and Bones, suggesting it was down to a lack of experience from the development team.

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Ubisoft is "very allergic" to making new games, says former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director, who claims the publisher "killed a bunch of our ideas" while he was there

"There's a million tiny things"

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Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director says Ubisoft 'became very allergic' to new games, which contributed to a 'talent drain'

Alex Hutchinson diagnoses the downward trajectory of his former employer.

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Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft's Skull and Bones dev team was "junior" and "trying to essentially make Black Flag crossed with World of Tanks or World of Warships," but without the "experience"

Alex Hutchinson says Skull and Bones was "essentially the same stuff re-shipping 14 years after we made it," so it was "bizarre" watching development drag on for so long

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The director of the first Assassin's Creed with naval battles found it 'bizarre' to watch Skull and Bones' agonisingly long development, because it was 'essentially the same stuff re-shipping 14 years after we made it'

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Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft held back on the ship-sailing stuff until Black Flag because they were worried the tech "wouldn't work," and I have to say that was 100% the right call

Black Flag's sailing is a massive improvement over AC3's, so it might be best they held off on making it "a huge part of the story"

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Assassin's Creed 3's greatest feature was pushed to the side until Black Flag because Ubisoft was worried that 'the tech wouldn't work'

We had to wait another year for a proper high seas adventure.

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As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 makes Split Fiction boss concerned about a AA takeover, former Assassin's Creed lead says don't worry, it's an "absolute wasteland" for mid-budget funding

The Ubisoft veteran responds to Hazelight's Josef Fares

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Open world games are some of the most popular in 2025, but as GTA 6 looms on the horizon, 2026 is about to get competitive

Interview | With a new Grand Theft Auto en route, it's open season on open world games; where do we go from here? And how many kinds of open worlds are there?

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Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard are both "very LGBTQ+ friendly," former EA dev says, "but one handled it perfectly and one fumbled it"

"Baldur's Gate 3 just supports you"

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Former Assassin's Creed and Far Cry lead says the Simpsons game they worked on "is underrated" and "being able to walk around a recreation of Springfield was pretty fun in of itself"

No word on if the devs slept nude in an oxygen tent in the belief it might give them development powers

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Revenge of the Savage Planet director isn't happy with the sequel's revenue, despite it bringing in millions of players on Xbox Game Pass: 'If you give stuff for free, what you've done is told people not to pay for it'

Revenge of the Savage Planet director thinks the industry's obsession with free games and subscription services is 'existentially dangerous'

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Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"

Assassin's Creed's shift to open-world RPGs would never have happened at many companies, Alex Hutchinson says

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Assassin's Creed 3's controversial, hours-long opening was meant to solve a classic game narrative problem, but the team didn't realize it was "too long" until "the last two months" of development

"You're always taught you have to conquer this villain, but you really don't care about the villain"

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Assassin's Creed was supposed to be a "trilogy" and end with Desmond Miles' death in Assassin's Creed 3, but Ubisoft released Brotherhood and Revelations before it released: "The problem with success is it drags it out"

Games die "when they start to disappear up their own butts a bit"

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Game Pass can’t cash in forever — ex‑Xbox VP warns of hidden costs

Former Xbox VP, and PlayStation executives warn that Game Pass, while popular with players, may devalue games and create tensions for developers.

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Revenge of the Savage Planet dev says "if just the people who have already wishlisted" the game buy it in the next month, "you would get more DLC"

A free Steam demo dropping next week should help

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Assassin's Creed 3 director says Ubisoft put "a lot of pressure" on devs to "add play time" and "bulk" out games with RPG elements "to delay resale as GameStop was the only one making any money on that transaction"

"The cheapest and most effective way to bulk it out was to add RPG elements"

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Ubisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"

There's also a performance mode and photo mode coming very soon

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Revenge of the Savage Planet is an 'upbeat, optimistic dystopia' that pulls no punches on our corporate overlords (interview)

'We had an idea for a meat planet' — Revenge of the Savage Planet game director Alex Hutchinson talks strange new worlds and mocking corporate spaceflight.

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As GTA 6 and Ghost of Yotei approach, Assassin's Creed veteran says good open-world games are slapstick: "You're just setting up the opportunity for jokes"

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Far Cry 4 lead reveals a cut idea for enemy camps that would have completely changed the story: "I think that's where the fun of the whole genre might lie"

Alex Hutchinson says the devs toyed around with letting players give enemy camps back to Pagan Min

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Assassin's Creed and Far Cry veteran didn't want the "feeling Kojima's going for in Death Stranding" in his new open-world game: "We want dense, joy-filled nuggets"

Is it possible for an open world game to be too big?

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