French video game publisher
Ubisoft announced its plans to open a development studio in
Quebec City in April 2005.[2][3] The studio, Ubisoft Quebec, was formally opened on 27 June 2005.[4] Its founders were Nicolas Rioux and Andrée Cossette, of whom Rioux was appointed as
general manager.[5][6] In June 2008, Ubisoft Quebec announced that it had established a
computer-generated imagery production arm that would work in conjunction with distributor
Guillemot.[7] The unit was closed down again with the foundation of
Ubisoft Motion Pictures in May 2011.[8]
Longtail Studios's Quebec City development studio was acquired by Ubisoft in March 2010 and merged into Ubisoft Quebec. Forty-eight employees were transferred to Ubisoft Quebec, while another 6–7, including the acquired studio's manager, departed.[9] In June 2013, François Pelland was appointed as Ubisoft Quebec's
executive director of development.[10][11] In September 2013, Ubisoft announced its intent to invest CA$373 million in Ubisoft Quebec over seven years to create up to 500 jobs.[12][13] A first investment of CA$28 million in January 2014 opened 100 positions.[14][15] Following onto another CA$4 million investment in July 2014, Ubisoft Quebec stated that it would move to new offices in the
Saint-Roch neighbourhood of Quebec City and open another 100 positions.[16]
When Rioux became "vice president of technology" for all of Ubisoft's Canadian studios in November 2017, Patrick Klaus was appointed Ubisoft Quebec's
managing director, with Cossette as associate managing director.[17] In December 2018, Mike Laidlaw joined the studio as
creative director, having previously stepped down from the same position at
BioWare,[18] before departing again in February 2020.[19] The Saint-Roch location, known as UbiNord, was opened in April 2019.[20] Cossette succeeded Klaus as managing director in November 2019, after Klaus had left the studio earlier that year.[5][21] Cossette left Ubisoft Quebec in July 2020.[22]
The studio ventured into mobile game development, collaborating with Ubisoft Montreal on Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mobile for
Android and
iOS, announced on April 5, 2022.[26] The title is the adapted version for mobile devices of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, a successful
tactical shooter game belonging to the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series, which Ubisoft Montreal released in December 2015 for
PC and
consoles.[27]