This is a good week to be a Canadian game developer, especially if you happen to live in Quebec. First, Fallout 4 creator Bethesda Game Studios announced that it would be opening new studio in Montreal, and now Borderlands creator Gearbox Software has announced that it will be opening a new studio in Quebec City.

This is the first satellite studio for the Dallas-based Gearbox, which got its start in the late 1990s with the creation of the first expansion for Valve Corp’s Half-Life.

“We are fortunate that there is a lot of demand on us to deliver our brand of interactive entertainment within the powerful franchises we have at Gearbox Software and the challenge for us is growing to meet this demand,” Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Software, said in a statement.

“As part of our strategy we have already successfully built an expanded all new headquarters in Frisco, Texas . We now look ahead to another key and exciting step which is our commitment towards our all-new Gearbox Studio Quebec where we strive to team up with some incredible talent in the world of video game development outside of Texas to help us build fun and exciting video games within our tent-pole brands.”

The new Canadian location will be co-headed by Sebastien Caisse, who formerly served as business development director at Quebecor Media, and by Pierre-Andre Dery, who had previously been an Art Director at Activision working on Skylanders and The Amazing Spider-Man.

“Thanks to Randy and his gifted team in Texas, we are designing a truly unique studio from the ground up in order to enhance Gearbox’s ability to entertain the world with best-selling, larger than life experiences,” Caisse said in Gearbox’s announcement. “To be able work for such a storied independent game studio as Gearbox is a great honor.”

There is no word yet on exactly what sort of games we can expect from the Gearbox Software Quebec, but the studio is already hiring for numerous positions.

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