Ubisoft Berlin will open in early 2018 and help on Far Cry series

Ubisoft Entertainment is opening a new studio in Berlin in early 2018. Its first project will be to collaborate on the Far Cry series, the latest installment of which will be out on February 27. The studio will report to Ubisoft Blue Byte, which has offices in Düsseldorf and Mainz and has worked with Ubisoft Montreal on games such as For Honor, Rainbow Six: Siege, and the upcoming pirate adventure Skull & Bones.

Ubisoft Berlin is planning to hire a team of 50 to start. It will be led by studio manager Istvan Tajnay, who worked at Blue Byte for the last five years and was studio operations director there. Many of Ubisoft’s studios collaborate on projects, and the new office joins a growing network of international studios. Earlier this year, it’s opened studios in Stockholm and France, adding to its collection of over 30 studios globally.