A major player in the video game industry is setting up shop in Winnipeg.

They don't have a location yet, but Ubisoft Winnipeg is set to open a studio in Winnipeg this fall.

Team Manitoba -- made up of YES! Winnipeg (within Economic Development Winnipeg), the City of Winnipeg, and the Province of Manitoba -- worked for two years to woo the industry giant here.

The Winnipeg branch will work collaboratively with Ubisoft's other AAA Canadian studios, focused on creating tools and tecnology.

"The mandate for the Ubisoft Winnipeg studio is important and will directly support many of our most successful, world-renowned brands, such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch_Dogs -- all games that are based on an open-world and systemic gameplay approach," says Ubisoft Canadian Studios CEO Yannis Mallat in a press release.

Ubisoft will be investing $35-million in Manitoba and creating 100 jobs over the next five years. The company will be hiring engineers, tool programmers, technical artists, and other talents. Darryl Long, who is managing director of Ubisoft's Winnipeg branch, says there are two main ways they will recruit.

"First, for sure we're going to be talking to the local schools. We're going to be working with them very closely hand-in-hand to make sure we've got programs and ways that we're keeping people in Winnipeg and Manitoba when they graduate from school. The other way that we're going to be pushing for recruiting is trying to bring back Manitobans back to Manitoba," Long told reporters after a press conference at Winnipeg's Millenium Centre.

Some job postings went up today. Long says they'll be start their core off with seasoned developers, bringing some in from other Ubisoft Canadian studios.

Louie Ghiz, executive director of New Media Manitoba, says Ubisoft Winnipeg brings jobs to the industry and there's lots of opportunities with a studio of this size and profile.

"We have an industry here that's really strong and successful already in its own right, and we've had critically acclaimed companies and we've had commercially successful companies; that is a big reason why Ubisoft is coming here, because they see that we have that here. And by them coming here it enhances that industry, it takes us to another level," says Ghiz.

Ubisoft has more than 13,000 team members working in more than 30 countries. Ubisoft Winnipeg will be the sixth Canadian studio, joining Halifax, Toronto, Saguenay, Montreal, and Quebec City.