Creative Assembly has begun hiring for a project you might not have expected from the Napoleon: Total War developer: a sports game.

U.K.-based gaming site Develop noticed a job opening being advertised by the Sega-owned studio. The Creative Assembly advert says that the company is “currently seeking a passionate and creative lead gameplay programmer for our upcoming next-gen sports title.”

Back before it went on to focus on the strategy genre pretty much exclusively, Creative Assembly whipped up a pair of Rugby games for EA Sports. What, exactly, the company’s working on for Sega is a complete mystery, but there’s one thing we can almost certainly glean from their history with the Total War series: Whatever sport they’re focusing on, it’ll have awesome crowd technology.

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