Emile

Screenshot: MicrosoftAlthough they didn’t appear in the original telling of the Fall of Reach as seen in the 2001, Noble Team—a squad of next-generation Spartan-III supersoldiers, the successors to the Spartan II program—were the primary protagonists of the version of the Fall of Reach depicted in Halo: Reach. There were six members of the team—Carter, Kat, Jun, Emile, Jorge, and Noble Six, Reach’s customizable player character—and spoiler, but unsurprisingly so given everything you’ve read here so far, all but one of…

The longtime Ubisoft developer has passed away Emile Morel, a developer with a long legacy including many years at Ubisoft, has died at age 40. News first began to spread around on LinkedIn, with colleagues posting tributes to Morel on the site (via IGN). Ubisoft Montpelier, his studio, has posted an official confirmation and statement: It is with a heavy heart that we share the sudden passing of our friend and colleague Emile Morel. We send our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and teammates all over the…

Emile Morel, the creative director of Beyond Good & Evil 2 and one of Ubisoft‘s core game designers over the course of the last decade, has died aged 40. The news was broken by IGN based on two LinkedIn posts shared by Morel’s close friends and colleagues. “A cherished colleague for over a decade at Ubisoft Montpellier, we laughed and wept through good times and bad, and shipped a lot great games together,” said Monique Gabrielle Shrager, lead writer at developer Lightspeed LA. “Emile was so very proud of Beyond…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmile Hirsch had been asked to play a bad guy. The action movie Pursuit was a quick money gig: fast shooting, three days of work, one of which would be spent with John Cusack as a crime boss who conducts his business around an outdoor barbecue. His own character wasn’t all that interesting – a fugitive murderer whose family has been kidnapped. But Hirsch, best known for playing the…