EA announces that Jade Raymond has joined EA to open a new studio in Montreal, Canada called Motive. Patrick Söderlund states "Motive will be a creative-driven team, incubating entirely new IP, and developing stunning action experiences for our players," though in a separate blog post Raymond reveals their first project is to work closely with BioWare Montreal on Mass Effect: Andromeda says they "will work in close quarters with the BioWare team" (apologies for originally erroneously interpreting this as saying they were working on the game). She also reveals another of her responsibilities will be to oversee Visceral Games, currently working on a Star Wars game. She says: "Getting back to what I love about making games, creating a new studio, working alongside world-class developers, ideating new IP and being a part of Star Wars...this is going to be fun!" Raymond announced she was leaving Ubisoft last October, where she helped launch the Assassin's Creed and Watch_Dogs series and established their Ubisoft Toronto studio.