Ex-Ubisoft devs form Sloclap and strike a publishing deal with Devolver

While the lion’s share of Sloclap’s founders formerly worked at Ubisoft Paris on games like Watch Dogs and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands, the studio has expanded since its founding as it works on its “online combat RPG” Absolver ahead of its slated 2017 launch.

Paris has gained a bit of prominence in the game industry recently; last year Sony refocused its traditional Gamescom public outreach efforts on Paris Games Week, and this month the long-running IndieCade festival announced it would debut its new European expansion, IndieCade Europe, in Paris later this year.