Ubisoft loses another Assassin's Creed veteran: 21-year design senior on the series since the original game leaves the company for "a smaller studio with other veterans"

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"I was recently in need for some change"

Assassin's Creed games in order: All of the current Assassin's Creed protagonists on a misty white background.
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Ubisoft is in upheaval, with a massive restructure underway and the specter of layoffs looming. Amid all that, another Assassin's Creed veteran has announced his departure from the company: Luc Couture, a level designer who'd been with the historical open-world series from the very beginning, is moving on to a new project.

"Today was my last day at Ubisoft Montreal," Couture announced in a LinkedIn post (spotted by Insider Gaming) on February 3. He explains that "I was recently in need for some change. So that's why I will soon pivot to tackling new challenges as part of a smaller studio with other veterans. Times are exciting."

Ubisoft has well over 17,000 employees (by the last public count in 2025), and it's tough to measure the impact of any one departure on the publisher as a whole. But with veteran developers departing and others – like longtime level designer David Michaud-Cromp or veteran designer and director turned franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté – getting fired, we're starting to find ourselves in a Ship of Theseus conundrum. How many Assassin's Creed developers does Ubisoft have to lose before it's no longer the company that made those beloved games in the first place?

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Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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