{"id":104575,"date":"2019-11-28T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354893"},"modified":"2019-11-28T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:29:00","slug":"a-group-of-senior-ubisoft-devs-have-joined-googles-in-house-stadia-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/28\/a-group-of-senior-ubisoft-devs-have-joined-googles-in-house-stadia-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"A group of senior Ubisoft devs have joined Google&#8217;s in-house Stadia studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has expanded its&nbsp;Stadia development team by hiring a group of senior Ubisoft developers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/google-hires-senior-assassins-creed-devs-for-stadia-studio\/\">according to a new report from VGC<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stadia Games and Entertainment was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/338980\/Google_unveils_firstparty_game_studio_led_by_Jade_Raymond.php\">opened earlier this year<\/a> with the remit of working on first-party titles for the Stadia. The Montreal-based studio is led by industry veteran Jade Raymond, who spent over a decade at Ubisoft working on franchises like<em> Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em>, <em>Splinter Cell<\/em>, and <em>Watch Dogs<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Raymond will be joined by fellow Ubisoft alumni Sebastien Puel, Francois Pelland and Mathieu Leduc. Puel has been appointed as general director at Stadia Games, having previously spent a decade working as an executive producer on the<em> Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> franchise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pelland&nbsp;has been brought in as the fledgling head of production, while Leduc has been named art director.&nbsp;During their time at Ubisoft, Pelland served as the executive director of development at <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Syndicate<\/em> developer Ubisoft Quebec, while Leduc was the art director at Ubisoft Montreal and worked on both&nbsp;<em>Assassin\u2019s Creed <\/em>and <em>Watch Dogs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Raymond explains that Stadia Games will look to create exclusive content in-house, while also working with third-party developers on other projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the head of Stadia Games and Entertainment, I will not only be bringing first-party game studios to reimagine&nbsp;the new generation of games,&#8221; she commented back in March.&nbsp;&#8220;Our team will also be working with external developers to make all of the bleeding-edge Google technology you&#8217;ve seen here today available to partner studios big and small.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has expanded its&nbsp;Stadia development team by hiring a group of senior Ubisoft developers, according to a new report from VGC.&nbsp; Stadia Games and Entertainment was opened earlier this year with the remit of working on first-party titles for the Stadia. The Montreal-based studio is led by industry veteran Jade Raymond, who spent over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}