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

Ubisoft's Clint Hocking introduces "Watch Dogs Legion," June 10, 2019 at the Ubisoft E3 press conference in Los Angeles. The new title is set in a post-Brexit dystopian surveillance state. The E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center June 11-13. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images).

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."