Watch Canines artistic director Jonathan Morin joins NetEase Montreal

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Ex-Ubisoft worker Jonathan Morin has joined NetEase Video games’ Montreal studio. Because the studio’s artistic director, he’ll be engaged on an unannounced sport in a brand new setting for NetEase. 
NetEase opened a Montreal studio in 2019, as a part of the Chinese language tech firm’s efforts to additional its international growth exterior of China. It was initially fashioned for R&D functions, however since Montreal is a hotspot for developer studios, transitioning to improvement could have been inevitable.
“I’m privileged to hitch a passionate and proficient new group to create our personal IP,” wrote Morin in a press assertion. “That is the start of one thing particular for me and I can not wait to say extra.”
Throughout his tenure at Ubisoft, Morin served because the artistic lead on the primary two Watch Canines video games. We spoke to Morin in 2014 forward of the primary Watch Canines’ launch about designing emergent gameplay. Past Morin, NetEase has introduced on a number of business veterans throughout 2022. NetEase has been letting these veterans kind their very own studios, whereas it is concurrently been buying (or investing in) already established ones. 
The primary of those was again in January, when Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi left Sega to discovered his personal studio with the writer. 

Extra just lately, producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi (of Satan Could Cry and Resident Evil fame) left Capcom in August to hitch NetEase. Shortly after, the tech big acquired Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream.