Splinter Cell: Blacklist director joins WB Games Montreal as 'Creative Director'

Ubisoft loses Splinter Cell: Blacklist director Patrick Redding, who was also the narrative designer for Far Cry 2, as he leaves to join WB Games Montreal - the creator of Batman: Arkham Origins.

No project has been announced yet with Redding attached. Arkham Origins was the studio’s first title since forming in 2010. Over 100 new jobs will be added to the studio.

Those 100 additions will be spread across five years as WB Games Montreal receives regional government funding through grants worth $1.5 million.

”This Warner Brothers studio here in Montreal only opened three years ago but it is growing rapidly,” studio chief Martin Carrier said in October last year. ”In five years’ time the executives here expect that this studio will be on a par with every other Warner Brothers studio.” Patrick Redding takes the position of Creative Director ”on an unannounced title.”