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Ubisoft opens Brazil studio

Sao Paulo shop to become the 20th production house in French publisher's international stable of developers.

Ubisoft went on an international expansion tear in April, acquiring a studio near Mumbai, India, announcing the October opening of a shop in Casablanca, Morocco, and beefing up the employee headcount in its Kiev, Ukraine, offices. Now the publisher is branching out into South America and today announced the formation of Ubisoft Sao Paulo.

Set to open its doors next month, the development house in the economic heart of Brazil will aim to grow from an initial staff of 20 to more than 200 developers within the next four years. Heading up the Brazilian team's efforts will be Bertrand Chaverot, who ran Ubisoft's sales subsidiary in the country from 1999 to 2003.

As for what the studio will work on, Ubisoft has said that "after an initial training period," the Sao Paulo shop will collaborate with the publisher's other locations to create "family-oriented titles" for consoles and portables. Ubisoft Sao Paulo will be the publisher's 20th worldwide development studio.

53 Comments

  • henrique2006

    Posted Sep 24, 2008 5:35 pm GMT

    uhauha we are taking over the world and u dont know it

  • henrique2006

    Posted Sep 24, 2008 5:34 pm GMT

    once again americans show up their brilliant stupid human geography

  • henrique2006

    Posted Sep 24, 2008 5:33 pm GMT

    its nice because games' industry in Brazil is crap, but dont come with an idiotic argument that that ALL labor here is cheap, thats old and very american.

  • henrique2006

    Posted Sep 24, 2008 5:33 pm GMT

    its nice because games' industry in Brazil is crap, but dont come with an idiotic argument that that ALL labor here is cheap, thats old and very american.

  • Humorguy_basic

    Posted Jun 26, 2008 2:37 am GMT

    Not necessarily cheap labour - but maybe more original 'thinking'. After all, STALKER, The Witcher and Space Rangers 2 are all quite different (and fantastic!) titles that came out of Eastern Europe, and they are a breath of fresh air compared to the bland titles we get out of the U.S. and Western Europe!

  • Amrikove

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 11:06 pm GMT

    Cheap labor ... Pretty smart move

  • larroyed

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 6:57 pm GMT

    Good choice Ubisoft and welcome to Brasil!!!

  • lnehme

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 6:50 pm GMT

    I don't think that is going to happen frangulis. although south america is growing up, there are so many poor people and too few rich people, like you said, and I think its going to stay like that for a long long time. But of course Brasil is growing up faster than the otther countries like argentina lol, and that maybe a fact that will help south america to pass this situatuion. Well... i hope so.

  • frangulis

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 4:09 pm GMT

    In ten years or so, Brazil is going to be one of the richest countries in the world. Economists and politics are saying this. So it's no surprise Brazil is starting to adopt things like console gaming. I just hope south america becomes more homogeneus in the future. Few people is so rich, and so many are so poor. Hope things change in the coming years.

  • Skullcandy

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 4:07 pm GMT

    Ahhh, cheap foreign labor. Another nail in the American economy.

  • ricardo-sene

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 3:31 pm GMT

    For us brazillians this news is something inexplicable. The brazilian people that likes games - we are many - suffers a lot to have it. We don't have an industry here, the govern's rates are high, and we pay $150 for a new game and $890 for a 40G PS3. It doesn't matter if this shop will create family-oriented games. It's UBISOFT, one of the most important company in the world. We start to do part of the industry of games, our most lovely passtime!

  • AnkenLMG

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 2:34 pm GMT

    WOOOOOOOOOW
    Brazil is the best country!!!!!
    I am brzilian
    xD

  • Cisioo

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 1:13 pm GMT

    @PixyMisao First of all, Brazil isnt one of the poorest countries of the world, so go read a bit.
    And because we are not rich, it doesnt mean we are stealers. So i think you should think a little about what you have said...

    About the topic, thats really good that Ubisoft is going work here too ^^

  • Venn

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 12:19 pm GMT

    They should also come to Argentina, we have great programmers, artists, etc. and wages could be even lower than Brazil

  • pilouuuu2004

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 12:08 pm GMT

    Isso é muito legal! Se nao fosse da Capcom o Blanka podia ser a mascota da Ubisoft Sao Paulo he he

  • paulokoenigkam

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 11:24 am GMT

    a huge gaming company... HERE? OH YES THERE IS A GOD !!!!

  • malexano

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 11:24 am GMT

    correction is a developing country, soon brazil will be one of the bigest economies on earth.yor mind is very poor.

  • PixyMisao posted Jun 25, 2008 10:35 am GMT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    PixyMisao

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 10:35 am GMT (hide)

    Cool... I hope they don't mind coming to work one day and noticing that all their development equipment & computers have been stolen in one of the poorest countries in the world.

  • everson_rm

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 9:41 am GMT

    And jerian, I'm sure that i have a PC better them yours. Just to make sure that you are wrong about brazil!

  • everson_rm

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 9:34 am GMT

    Wow. Hope it begins to make some games here in my country soon!!!

  • xxx369

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 9:14 am GMT

    YESSS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
    Now I can work in Video Game studio without having to leave brazil!

  • FireRockGSF

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 9:08 am GMT

    Yeah, that ShadowRun approach to a brazilian enviroment was horrible!
    Well, thanks, Ubisoft, for the oportunity to brazilian developers. I'm sure they'll make a great job.

  • Ahiru-San

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 8:48 am GMT

    good news, after this initial short staff period, i think they'll start collaborating on more elaborated games as well, why not? maybe this time there shall be no mistakes about brazillian stuff in games (shadowrun anyone? i know it's not ubi's, but still)

  • Sins-of-Mosin

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 8:01 am GMT

    Wait wait, they will be making family games? Why bother? And please guys, this is no knock on your country, just Ubisoft opening a place to make family games.

  • Evinco_DX

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 7:59 am GMT

    LinkNintendo, don't pay attention to comments like those. Just another ignorant American that posted it. Anyways, looking forward to seeing what the Brazilians can do.

  • SrTVBR

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 7:41 am GMT

    This is great. Ubisoft will have a lot of incentives to make cheap and great games here unlike other places.

  • LinkNintendo

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 7:13 am GMT

    Brazilian Here, as well!
    Kiaininja, I don't think you are right when you say that we just have parties and stuff like that... There's no denying that we like parties and we are really more talkable and less serious than other peloples, but deffinetly we know how to work, and i really hope that the Brazilian Ubisoft's Studio prove me right.
    I hope others companies to do the same!

    Jp

  • Kiaininja

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 6:43 am GMT

    Oh how will Ubisoft ever get their work done with all them Brazilian chicks and Mardigras parties outside of their offices distracting them.

  • Darkrush000

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 6:13 am GMT

    Yeah! Finally Brazil is growing up. But thats not enough though....

    Forgive my English, I'm Brazilian!!

  • NA3D

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 5:56 am GMT

    So when EA finishes the buy out of Ubisoft... yeah...

  • K-Grogg

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 5:21 am GMT

    Too bad they'll be working on "family titles".

  • onuruca

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 5:02 am GMT

    only TURKEY is left UBISOFT come on we are waiting!

  • Magatsu23

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 4:46 am GMT

    nice stuff. who knows, maybe they´ll finally reduce the amazingly high taxes on videogames that we have here.

  • Marcelo_Mac

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 4:13 am GMT

    Very good news for us brazilians

  • mashom

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 4:10 am GMT

    Brazil LALALALALALLAaaaaaaa lol
    UBI UBI, come to pakistan warm welcome any time.

  • Scianix-Black

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 1:35 am GMT

    iVIVA BRAZIL!

  • emd-forum

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 1:27 am GMT

    What can i say about jerian's comment?
    He lives in USA, i'm surprise that he even can see a documentary about another thing than war, war, war and, of course, fear.

    About Ubisoft: (Y)

  • SlashCalliber

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 1:24 am GMT

    do you even know something about brazil, jerian? im brazilian living in sao paulo, 4 biggest city in the world and the richest in south america, do you think we live in freakin trees?

  • Jerian posted Jun 25, 2008 12:25 am GMT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    Jerian

    Posted Jun 25, 2008 12:25 am GMT (hide)

    Do those people even have TV much less consoles?? saw a documentary on the BBC where there were natives in Brazil attacking a helo with arrows lol

  • punkpunker

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 11:29 pm GMT

    Woah!! i've just watched the incredible hulk that took part in Brazil and ubisoft opened the studio in Brazil. oh my!!??

  • Viral-venom13

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 10:09 pm GMT

    NICE, this is cool as now a game developer is not too far from where i reside and it will be one of the perfect places for me to get a start on becoming a game developer.....SWEEEEEETT!!

  • tiago97

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 8:21 pm GMT

    I am from BraSil and I feel very proud of Ubi opening a studio there, even knowing that my country has way to go comparing to US, but that's a start .

  • onething77

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 7:29 pm GMT

    I like the sound of Ubisoft expanding. They deserve it. Thank god its not EA, otherwise we'd have to blow up Brazil just to make sure this world does not experience the creation of another monstrous EA studio.

  • adamska_br

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 7:27 pm GMT

    AWESOME! I live in São Paulo and I think it's mind-boggiling to have a game developing studio so close (that is, if they allow visits or something, perhaps have a job for a JAVA programmer).

  • awexom01

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 7:22 pm GMT

    why is everyone with that same FFVII pic always a smartass? lol!

  • luna_chanfui

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 7:15 pm GMT

    I'll go to brazil.

  • joaoaldo

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 7:09 pm GMT

    LoL, o que vão produzir lá?

    Brazil (s) ROCKS

  • al-masri

    Posted Jun 24, 2008 6:31 pm GMT

    Saving money eh

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