Far Cry 2 and Assassin's Creed Hexe creative director launches a new studio, a few months after surprise exit from Ubisoft

Just a few months after his surprise departure from Ubisoft, where he'd been serving as the creative director on the mysterious Assassin's Creed Hexe, veteran developer Clint Hocking has founded a game studio called Build Machine Games.

Hocking's new outfit is "lean and fast," he wrote on LinkedIn, but also "bold and ambitious."

"We aspire to expand the expressive range and power of the medium with emotionally resonant, socially relevant games that challenge players' perspectives,...