‘Ubisoft is working on mmorpg for the Wii U’

Ubisoft Quebec is working on a mmorpg for Nintendo’s yet to introduce console Wii U. The Canadian studio is looking for several developers who need to start work on a new ‘AAA’title for the Wii U.

The vacancies were through twitter unveiled by Emile Gauthier, communications manager of Ubisoft Quebec. With the publication were also the plans for the not yet officially announced mmog project for the Wii U known. The ontwikkelstudio seeks, inter alia, to various programmers and people with experience in the field of the design of online games, according to the Facebook job postings. About the to develop a mmog, there was nothing published.

Ubisoft Quebec has been around since 2005, and has worked since its inception mainly on various handheld games. So were the PSP versions of Rainbow Six: Vegas, TMNT and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands taken by them. Also assisted Ubisoft Quebec Ubisoft Montreal in the development of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. In 2010, the studio approximately 300 employees, and with that, Ubisoft Quebec is a lot smaller than, for example, Ubisoft Montreal, where between 2500 and 3000 people are employed.