Ubisoft have many development studios around the world, each of which work on their own games and also collaborate with other studios on major gaming projects. Just a few of these studios include Ubisoft Montreal (Watch_Dogs, Far Cry Primal), Ubisoft Toronto (Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist), Ubisoft Montpellier (Rayman Origins) and Ubisoft Quebec (Assassin’s Creed Syndicate). The company have today announced that a new production studio in the Philippines – known as Ubisoft Philippines – will join their extensive family of studios. The studio is set to open in the second quarter of 2016, and plans to hire up to 50 people in its first year. Its aim will be to focus on collaborating on the development of their “AAA” console games.
This new studio will be closely linked to Ubisoft’s existing South East Asian studio in Singapore, with a number of the founding team members moving across to the new studio in order to train the new team.
The Philippines studio will be located on the campus of De La Salle University in Santa Rosa, which was chosen for its accessibility, and that it is a lush, green and family-friendly area with multiple schools, healthcare and entertaining options.
Ubisoft are aspiring to provide high quality training recruits, mentoring programs by industry veterans from the Singapore studio and collaborative learning platforms and events implemented throughout the Ubisoft network. For those in Singapore and are looking to dive into Ubisoft’s projects, job applications are now open HERE.
Chip Go | Studio Manager of Ubisoft Philippines
I am very excited to have the opportunity to come back to my country of origin to kick start a brand new studio for Ubisoft. Every day, Filipinos leave the country in search of opportunities elsewhere. I was one of those people eight years ago, and now I’m very happy to come back and bring my own experience in AAA game development. I know that this experience, as well as Ubisoft’s 30 years of industry expertise, is going to spark great things, and is a huge opportunity for the Philippines.
It’s important for Ubisoft to provide a friendly working environment for its staff. Locating our studio in Santa Rosa is a real advantage in this sense. We have huge ambition for this team, who will play a part in creating some of Ubisoft’s biggest and most beloved games. Ubisoft Philippines will be recruiting 50 new team members this year, from artists to programmers, designers to project managers, and we are very confident of our ability to build a strong team to take up these challenges
Oliver de Rotalier | Managing Director of Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Chengdu and Ubisoft Philippines
We chose to grow in the Philippines because of its great talent pool and I am confident the new studio will meet our demanding standards. Our number one priority will be to develop the high potential of our new team members to reach the level of expertise and quality needed to work on AAA games, just as we have previously done in Singapore.
