Hugues Ricour

Moby ID: 115237

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Hailing from France, Hugues produced several best seller and award-winning games on notorious franchises: Need For Speed, FIFA and Assassin’s Creed.

He joined the game industry in 1999 working for Infogrames, producing racing games. He then joined Electronic Arts Black Box studio as Associate Producer and designed the Drag mode of NFS Underground. After managing the pre-production of NFS Most Wanted, he joined EA Sports and the FIFA team to produce FIFA 06 and FIFA 07, leading the rewriting of the physics and AI. He then produced and launched FIFA Online 1 and 2 in Asia, first EA Sports PC Free To Play games, in collaboration with Korean developer Neowiz. The sports cards trading and monetization system, which later inspired the famous Ultimate Team mode, was born.

He then joined Ubisoft Singapore in 2009 to lead Ghost Recon Online, a PC Free To Play game. As he became Director of Production, Hugues Ricour oversaw the Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Chengdu, and Ubisoft Philippines collaboration teams to co-develop Assassin’s Creed III, Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed Rogue, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, partnering with Ubisoft Canadian studios, to innovate and produce Naval Battle gameplay. In 2018, Hugues Ricour became Ubisoft Singapore and Ubisoft Philippines Managing Director. The studios released, in collaboration with Ubisoft Montreal, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

Credited on 22 games

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Skull and Bones (2024, PlayStation 5) Special Thanks
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2021, Stadia) Senior Producer Ubisoft Singapore
Immortals: Fenyx Rising (2020, PlayStation 5) Managing Director, Singapore and Philippines
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (2020, PlayStation 4) Managing Director
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018, PlayStation 4) Director of Production
Assassin's Creed: Rogue - Remastered (2018, PlayStation 4) Senior Producer
Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017, PlayStation 4) Director of Production
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015, PlayStation 4) Producer Ubisoft Singapore
Assassin's Creed: Rogue (2014, PlayStation 3) Senior Producer
Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014, Windows) Senior Producer Ubisoft Singapore
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Phantoms (2014, Windows) Senior Producer
Assassin's Creed III: The Tyranny of King Washington - The Redemption (2013, Windows) Senior Producer Ubisoft Singapore
Assassin's Creed III (2012, PlayStation 3) Senior Producer Ubisoft Singapore
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (2012, Xbox 360) Special Thanks
Need for Speed: World (2010, Windows) Special Thanks
FIFA Soccer 07 (2006, Xbox 360) Line Producer
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Black Edition) (2005, PlayStation 2) Special Thanks
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005, Windows) Special Thanks
FIFA Soccer 06 (2005, Windows) Line Producer
Need for Speed: Underground (2003, Windows) Production Team

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