Jade Raymond left UbiSoft Toronto to work at Electronic Arts, and was tasked to oversee Mass Effect: Andromeda and an unannounced Star Wars game. Now, EA’s CFO Blake Jorgensen has revealed that Raymond is helping the publisher with an action game, ostensibly in the style of Assassin’s Creed.
While speaking at UBS Global Technology Conference, Jorgensen admitted, ”“We’ve never really operated in the largest genre of gaming, and that’s the action genre,” adding, ”That’s the Assassin’s Creed-style games; more open-world, more single-play versus multiplayer. It’s not been an area that we’ve operated in.”
He then name-dropped Raymond as someone who would help EA develop such a title.
”We recently hired Jade Raymond, who was behind the Assassin’s Creed franchise for Ubisoft and she will be building an action genre for us through a studio we’re building out in Montreal right now. So a lot of excitement around the action genre,” Jorgensen stated.
It is unknown whether Raymond’s Assassin’s Creed-style game is the unnamed Visceral Star Wars game or something else. Stay tuned.
