Bethesda Game Studios has announced they’ll be opening a new studio in Montreal, Quebec to “expand its development capabilities in console, PC, and mobile gaming.”

“We’ve worked with some very talented developers in Montreal for a long time, and decided it was time to open a studio there,” Todd Howard, Game Director and Executive Producer at Bethesda Game Studios, said in a statement. “It’s exciting to think about the new games we’ll be building together.”

Bethesda Game Studios Montreal will have a core team of 40 developers working on both console and mobile games. The studio is being headed by industry veteran Yves Lachance.

“Our collaboration with Bethesda Game Studios has been an exhilarating and memorable journey already,” said Lachance. “We are thrilled to be launching the studio in Montreal and contributing our city’s great game-making talent to the kind of games that Bethesda Game Studios is known for.”

To any of our game developer readers, Bethesda Game Studios is also hiring for both its Montreal and Maryland studios, which you can read more about here.

Thanks, Gematsu