{"id":30957,"date":"2026-02-23T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30957"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:01:35","slug":"former-assassins-creed-creative-directors-studio-has-been-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30957","title":{"rendered":"Former Assassin&#039;s Creed Creative Director&#039;s Studio Has Been Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4655373-timimontreal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TiMi Montreal, the studio founded by former Assassin&#8217;s Creed creative director Ashraf Ismail, has been shut down by its parent company Tencent. Ismail announced the studio&#8217;s opening in 2021, under Tencent&#8217;s TiMi Studio Group banner. Reportedly, Ismail&#8217;s team was working on a new original AAA open-world game for consoles and PC. However, the shutdown means that TiMi Montreal&#8217;s unannounced game will never see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>According to Game File, rumors about Timi Montreal&#8217;s impending demise were circulating for weeks without confirmation. That changed when Timi Montreal developers began sharing the news online about the fate of their studio.<\/p>\n<p>On his LinkedIn page, senior gameplay programmer Alvaro Fernandez Luzuriaga said, &#8220;I am genuinely heartbroken that the public will never get to experience what this team was capable of producing.&#8221; Luzuriaga&#8217;s message was subsequently removed from his page.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/former-assassins-creed-creative-directors-studio-has-been-shut-down\/1100-6538339\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TiMi Montreal, the studio founded by former Assassin&#8217;s Creed creative director Ashraf Ismail, has been shut down by its parent company Tencent. Ismail announced the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[16400,326,4161,16401,698,2770],"class_list":["post-30957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-assassin039s","tag-creative","tag-creed","tag-director039s","tag-shut","tag-studio","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}