14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer Jade Raymond, best known for her work on the first two Assassin's Creed titles, is announcing that she is joining publisher Electronic Arts and that she is leading a new studio called Motive.
The official announcement is written by Raymond herself, who also served as game director of Watch Dogs, which she created for Ubisoft, and she explains that the new company will be headquartered in Montreal, Canada, and that she will work on an entirely new project.
Jade Raymond adds, "In the first conversations I had with Patrick Söderlund, we talked about the games we love and the opportunities we saw for the future. We talked about how EA wants to deliver more innovative experiences and more of what players are asking for. It’s energizing to see EA today bringing more passion than ever to the games they make, and passion to getting it right for players."
It seems that Motive Studios will work close to BioWare and will be able to see how the company is exploring the power of the Frostbite engine and how it will expand the Mass Effect franchise with the all-new Andromeda experience.
It seems that the company will focus on an entirely new intellectual property in the long term, although no info has been revealed on it.
Motive Studios will also work on Star Wars
The new team is also set to work on the Star Wars project that Amy Hennig is currently directing inside Electronic Arts.
Jade Raymond says that she will also be overseeing the California Visceral Games studio in order to better serve the new project, which does not yet have a name.
The new Star Wars experience is apparently partly inspired by the canceled 1313 experience that LucasArts was working on before Disney became the owner of the universe.
Some fans are speculating that Amy Hennig is helming a title that will be linked to the first standalone movie inspired by the franchise, Rogue One, which is set to be launched next year.
In the meantime, fans of the universe will be able to play the coming Star Wars: Battlefront, which is set to be introduced on the PC, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 on November 17.