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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Frequent Collaborators
People- 14 games with Yves Guillemot
- 14 games with Nicolas Schoener
- 14 games with Stéphanie Perotti
- 14 games with Daniel Fleury
- 14 games with Sébastien Hivon
- 14 games with Yannick Cholette
- 14 games with Marie Duhaime-Major
- 14 games with John Serri
- 14 games with Stéphane Grenier
- 14 games with Jean-François Richard
Companies
- 14 games with Ubisoft Entertainment SA
- 12 games with Ubisoft Singapore Pte Ltd.
- 11 games with Ubisoft SRL
- 10 games with Ubisoft Kyiv
- 9 games with Valve Corporation
- 8 games with Ubisoft Montréal
- 8 games with Ubisoft Quebec City Studio
- 8 games with Audiokinetic Inc.
- 8 games with Chengdu Ubisoft Software Co., Ltd.
- 8 games with Ubisoft, Inc.
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