Assassin’s Creed Shadows associate director has a hot tip for the next Ubisoft studio taking on the franchise: “Pay more attention to parkour as its own pillar” December 6, 2025 / admin / retro news Simon Lemay-Comtois has some words of advice for future AC devs Read More 2019
Avatar: Fire and Ash producer seems to hint at unlikely alliance between Jake Sully and Quaritch, as Oona Chaplin’s more villainous Varang takes on the Na’vi: “It’s not as clear cut and dry for him” December 6, 2025 / admin / retro news Could Quaritch and Jake Sully end up allies after all? Read More 2019
Arc Raiders devs had ambitions for “boss fights in that same arena of Dark Souls, Monster Hunter” but quickly realized the Arc are too unpredictable December 6, 2025 / admin / retro news Embark Studios wanted “all of that compelling pattern recognition.” Read More 2019
Slay the Spire 2 devs literally flipped a coin to decide between a new game or a sequel to their genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder: “The rest is history” December 6, 2025 / admin / retro news Why the heck not? Read More 2019
The turn-based RPG secret sauce is that “you have time to engage on your own terms”, Octopath Traveler 0’s director tells me, which makes them perfect for “a wider age range” December 6, 2025 / admin / retro news Octopath Traveler 0’s director Yasuhiro Kidera and producer Hirohito Suzuki discuss the appeal of turn-based RPGs and balancing long narrative Read More 2019
“We are hard to beat”: 9 months since Assassin’s Creed Shadows, its associate director looks back on what makes this RPG the best in series history December 6, 2025 / admin / retro news Year in Review 2025 | Ubisoft Quebec’s Simon Lemay-Comtois on the intersection between Shadows, Syndicate, and the series’ wide-open future Read More 2019