Assassin's Creed Valhalla director leaves Ubisoft to join EA Motive

Assassin's Creed Valhalla game director, Eric Baptizat, has left Ubisoft to join EA Motive.

The seasoned director - who helped reboot the Assassin's Creed series as lead designer on Origins and director on Valhalla - had been with the French developer/publisher for 16 years, but left earlier this year to join Motive on an unannounced project.

Axios says "neither EA nor Baptizat are commenting on the move" (thanks, VGC), but we've reached out and will confirm as/when we hear back from either party.

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