Ubisoft is one of the most prolific publishers in the gaming industry, releasing new titles annually to a sizable fanbase. Now it seems Ubisoft franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six are set to welcome another brand-new IP to the company based on the promise of its newest subsidiary Ubisoft Stockholm.
Ubisoft Stockholm is currently advertising a plethora of game designer industry jobs, and a lot of the required information hints at a bigger project. Talk of Ubisoft working on a new MMO game has been circulating for several months, but taking a look at several advertised job roles reveal more evidence hinting at what the IP is going to involve.
The Lead Game Designer role at the Stockholm company is asking for employees to have experience in action/combat design experience, which hints at a more combat centric video game effort. Ubisoft’s typical focus on open world exploration and/or RPG elements means it has established a specific genre of games it works best at. However, since Ubisoft Stockholm is set to work on several unreleased IPs along with Animation Engineers and C++ coders that specialize in combat/action games, previous rumors about the secret IP being an MMO game appear to be less certain.
Additional requirements list player centric features such as “combat mechanics, player roles, and other non-combat action gameplay,” which adds fuel to the burning fire of Ubisoft’s latest undertaking. It could be argued that most genres of game require combat in some way, but the company’s demand for potential employees with prior experience in such a demanding category heavily implies that fighting and action will be one of the upcoming game’s selling points.
The rapid influx of incoming game projects being announced by Ubisoft and its subsidiaries seems very promising for growing the brand. Ubisoft appears to have taken on board some criticisms surrounding its current business plan and market, perhaps looking to migrate away from its comfy franchise staples to produce more varied and unique content in the years to come. Several recently developed games on Ubisoft’s 2022 calendar are a balance of older titles releasing alongside newer ones suggesting this developmental change is going to arrive sooner than anticipated.
Ubisoft Stockholm was founded in 2017, and is currently collaborating on an ambitious Avatar tie-in game with Massive Entertainment. Unfortunately, the studio is still keeping a lot of precise details about the new project a secret, advertising that the only way to find out more about the unrevealed IP is to join the team. While this suggests Ubisoft is still in a pre-alpha stage for the game, there is already enough of a tease offered to get gamers excited and ready for a state-of-the-art release.
