Ubisoft is acquiring the team behind an upcoming MOBA at Amazon Games Montreal, it’s announced, which will see the original creative director of Rainbow Six Siege return to the publisher six years after he left.
No terms of the deal have been disclosed, but the move will see Ubisoft obtain the rights for the upcoming MOBA game March of Giants, which began closed alpha testing on PC earlier this year, and its entire development team will join the company.
As part of the agreement, Amazon will provide Ubisoft with marketing support for March of Giants on Twitch.
March of Giants’ creative director is Xavier Marquis, who led development on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. The game’s production leader, Alexandre Parizeau, is another former Ubisoft leader, having served as MD of its Toronto studio.
In a statement, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot welcomed Marquis and Parizeau back to the company and said that their return would bring proven expertise in building “globally successful competitive and live games” to Ubisoft.
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Hope whoever is returning to Ubisoft did not opt to burn bridges when they originally left… Otherwise it’s possibly a Mike Ybarra situation. 
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What the plot twist is this?
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Putting that Gamepass money to good use, I guess.
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