Gearbox opens new offices in Shanghai

Gearbox Software has announced the opening of new offices in Shanghai that will form the Gearbox Studio Shanghai.

The company, mainly known for the Borderlands or Brothers in Arms franchises, has converted Shanghai into its new study keeping Gigi King, head of the previous one, as general manager. China is an industry talent seedbed, and I am sure that Gearbox Studio Shanghai will be fundamental in our vision of international growth here in Gearbox, explains Soon I'm, president of Gearbox Publishing San Francisco. With this incorporation, we greatly improve our ability to interact with players in the Chinese market and work directly with emerging local development studies.

Recall that this merger comes from the fact that both studies are now part of the Group embarrass after the latest purchases of the Swedish editor, which was made with Gearbox in early 2021 for a sum of 1.3 billion dollars and with Lidos, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix Montreal a few months ago for only 300 million.

Now, as we can read on the Gearbox website, they are looking for new employees for many departments, such as creative development, art and animation, design, production or programming, with special emphasis, as indicated, in the formation of developers without experience. Interestingly, they also talk about a fraudulent scammer who is making unauthorized employment offers in search of bank information, so they urge possible candidates not to share this type of data.

At the moment we do not know the future plans of Gearbox Studio Shanghai, although Lidos Shanghai formed in 2008 for the subcontracting of Western Lidos Development Studies.