The lead level and gameplay designers of the old title have joined BioWare Montreal

Apr 27, 2013 13:51 GMT  ·  By

BioWare Montreal, the studio that's working on the next Mass Effect game, has just beefed up its team with the addition of veterans from Big Huge Games and 38 Studios, the developers behind the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning RPG.

BioWare has slowly beefed up its Montreal studio in the past few years, allowing it to work on certain systems for Mass Effect 2 and on the multiplayer of last year's Mass Effect 3.

Now, the studio is single-handedly working on the next Mass Effect game, under the leadership of franchise founder BioWare Edmonton.

According to Kotaku, former Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developers have just joined the studio, including Colin Campbell as lead level designer, or Ian Frazier as lead gameplay designer.

The two veterans have been unemployed since Big Huge Games and 38 Studios went bankrupt. Some of them founded the Impossible Studios venture alongside Epic Games, but that studio quickly closed its doors as well.