{"id":653302,"date":"2026-05-07T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653302\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:01:12","slug":"studio-ricochet-established-by-former-gearbox-studio-quebec-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/653302\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Ricochet established by former Gearbox Studio Quebec leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Studio Ricochet [1 article]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/companies\/studio-ricochet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Ricochet<\/a>, a new independent game studio headquartered in Quebec, has announced its establishment. It is led by the core leadership team that built Gearbox Studio Quebec, with the goal of creating original, premium games. It is currently developing an original <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Genres &gt; Co-Op [379 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/genres\/multiplayer\/co-op\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cooperative<\/a> <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Genres &gt; Action [3,445 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/genres\/action\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">action<\/a> <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Genres &gt; Adventure [2,912 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/genres\/adventure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adventure game<\/a> for console and <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; PC [25,613 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/platforms\/pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The studio\u2019s founders include Sebastien Caisse and Pierre-Andre Dery, former studio heads at Gearbox Studio Quebec, alongside former <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Series &gt; Borderlands [17 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/series\/borderlands\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Borderlands<\/a> creative director Maxime Babin and former Gearbox Studio Quebec director of creative development Yanick Piche. Veteran developers from Call of Duty, <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Series &gt; Assassin&#039;s Creed [29 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/series\/assassins-creed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/a>, and other major franchises are also part of the leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter years of building within large organizations, we wanted to create a studio that moves faster, stays focused, and takes creative risks,\u201d said Studio Ricochet co-founder Pierre-Andrew Dery said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder Sebastien Caisse added, \u201cWe\u2019ve assembled a team that knows how to deliver at scale\u2014and we\u2019re deliberately starting lean. We\u02bcll prove the vision first, then grow around it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit the studio\u2019s official website <a class=\"link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/studioricochet.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Studio Ricochet, a new independent game studio headquartered in Quebec, has announced its establishment. It is led by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-653302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}