DICE hires Batman: Arkham Origins director Eric Holmes

By Stephany Nunneley

Batman: Arkham Origins’ creative director, Eric Holmes, has announced he has left Warner Bros. Montreal and has taken a position with DICE.

(stealth field off) We’ve moved! I’m excited to announce that on Monday I start a new position with DICE in Stockholm, Sweden!

— Eric Holmes (@ericholmeslive) February 14, 2015

Prior to Batman: Arkham Origins, Holmes worked as a designer on Gears of War 3, Protoype, and helped developed Unreal Engine 4 tech at Epic Games.

Holmes didn’t state which game he will be working on at DICE, but as Game Informer notes, Star Wars: Battlefront, 2016’s Battlefield and the Mirror’s Edge reboot are all in the works at the Stockholm-based studio.