The next "Assassin's Creed" designed from Ubisoft's Bordeaux studio

• The design of Assassin's Creed Mirage was entrusted to the Bordeaux studio of Ubisoft.

• Established since 2017 in Bordeaux, in two districts, Ubisoft will set up at the end of 2023 in a new building in the Bastide-Niel district.

• With a surface area of ​​7,500 m2, it will be Ubisoft's largest French studio.

Fifteen years after the release of the first

game , in 2007, Ubisoft is advancing on the next version of the blockbuster that has sold 200 million copies:

, which is scheduled for release in 2023. The design has been entrusted to the studio Bordeaux from the creator of French video games.

Established since 2017 in Bordeaux in the Bassins à Flot and Bastide district, Ubisoft

presented this Tuesday its future studio which will bring together all its Bordeaux teams by the end of 2023, in the Bastide-Niel district, on the right bank.

With a surface area of ​​7,500 m2, it will be Ubisoft's largest French studio, also located in Montpellier, Lyon and Paris.

Assassin's Creed Mirage will immerse players in the heart of the 9th century, the golden age of the city of Baghdad

“At the start, there were about ten of us in Bordeaux, mainly from the Paris and Montreal studios, recalls the director of the Bordeaux branch of Ubisoft, Julien Mayeux.

Two years ago we started working on the

brand , participating in the latest opus

which has just celebrated its 20 million players, and today we are lucky to be the ones who will make the next

.

To do this, the teams have gradually ramped up to quickly reach 300 people, and 400 by next year.

Assassin's Creed Mirage

will immerse players in the heart of the 9th century, the golden age of the city of Baghdad.

Players will take on the role of a new hero, Basim Ibn Is'haq, a street thief with a mysterious past.

"For the design of the game, we are reproducing Ubisoft's traditional scheme, which is based on co-development with several studios but whose "lead" has been entrusted to Bordeaux", continues Julien Mayeux.

The future Bordeaux studio will be a locomotive of Ubisoft

With regard to the realization of his new studio, the construction of which is already well advanced, it is a building inserted in a plot all in length.

The architects wanted to preserve traces of the industrial and railway past of the site, in particular by maintaining the existing framework, even if it has for the moment been moved to be “unsealed” and “renovated”.

The building envelope will be in terracotta, also with a facing in Bordeaux stone.

Inside, a large street will cross the entire studio, "with footbridges to articulate the different spaces, and spacious office floors", details the architect Jennifer Lemot (Les Ateliers 4 +).

"The particularity of Ubisoft, continues the architect, is that it is necessary to protect the employees from the light because there are a lot of screens, which also goes with a bioclimatic approach to architecture, so we carried out a work on light and acoustic comfort.

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It “will be a locomotive” for Ubisoft, assures Julien Mayeux, who hopes to attract “the best talents.

In full growth, the video game sector has some 700 studios throughout France, particularly in Montpellier, Lyon and Bordeaux, and employs 15,000 people.

It weighs 5.6 billion euros in turnover.

Ubisoft, the French heavyweight, claims a presence on five continents with more than 45 studios, led by a network of 20,000 employees.

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