Job ads suggest a new Ubisoft studio is opening in Australia

Task ads suggest a new Ubisoft studio is opening in Australia

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Ubisoft is currently recruiting for pun development positions based in Australia, suggesting the founding of a newly—and yet to be formally announced—Sydney-supported studio apartment. Ubisoft already has a Sydney-based bureau focused on servicing the Australian food market, but until now it hasn't been involved in game development.

The roles are wide ranging, but based on caper descriptions the studio will be a "Abdominal aortic aneurysm game team" together with Ubisoft San Francisco (answerable for Rocksmith and the Dixieland Parking lot games). For the level design role, "multiplayer map plan experience" is a positive, spell the environment artist role volition cente "full maps creation on a multiplayer game in a realistic setting."

In San Francisco, Ubisoft is currently seeking a lead game designer for a "new multiplatform project" requiring previous experience on "AAA titles" and multiplayer design for PC or console games.

Reached for comment, Ubisoft said "we have nothing to share at this meter." Whatever the case, Ubisoft does a lot of crossbreeding-continent collaboration on its games, with 14 studios lending Ubisoft Montreal a hand happening Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The newly announced Assassin's Creed Infinity will be the first jointly formed away the series' main studios, Ubisoft Quebec and Montreal.

Update, July 9: Added comment from Ubisoft.

Shaun is PC Gamer's Australian editor and news writer. He mostly plays platformers and RPGs, and keeps a near eye along anything of particular interest to antipodean audiences. He (rather obsessively) tracks the movements of the Doom modding community, too.