Ubisoft announced this week that it has opened a new studio in Sofia, Bulgaria. Alexandru-Ion Radu, recently named director of recruitment and training at Ubisoft’s Romania studio, has been appointed manager of the new studio, reporting directly to Sébastien Delen, managing director of Ubisoft Romania. The studio opens its doors with 21 team members and plans to hire 40 additional employees by the end of 2006. A core group of 11 team members, nine engineers and two artists has already been working at Ubisoft Romania on the production of the recently released the popular flight-simulation game Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII for the Xbox 360. The new team will immediately begin work on development of several titles, including the PC version of Rayman Raving Rabbids, under the artistic direction of its creator Michel Ancel and a console version of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: 3 Dimensions of Murder.