From music4games.net:
"Video Games Live announced a second added Montreal performance which will take place on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at the St-Denis Theatre. Tickets will go on sale December 20th, 2007."

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From Gamasutra.com:
"Stéphane D’Astous, General Manager of the newly-formed Eidos Montreal, is bullish about his studio’s planned development cycle. "Trying to get nine women to give birth to a baby in one month doesn’t work. Everyone has tried that in this industry, but we decided to cut the bullshit," D’Astous declared on our in-depth tour of the new facility."

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From gamesindustry.biz:

"The recent success of Assassin’s Creed, however, has helped Ubisoft increase its market value to 3 billion Euro (USD 4.3 billion), making it a much more expensive target should EA still have takeover plans."

What do you think the impact would be on the game industry if EA bought Ubisoft?

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From developmag.com:

"Jacques Daoust, the president and CEO of Investissement Quebec, the Canadian agency responsible for the tax credits offered to games developers, has defended the region’s economic rebates from previously reported criticism that said the Montreal game scene was draining UK and European talent."

What do you think about the financial help Quebec is getting, is it fair to other country?

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From the IGDA Montreal newsletter:

"A report and photos from the "Playing Columbine" documentary movie screening at the IGDA-Montreal/MIGS joint event have been posted online."

What do you think of the movie, or the media’s coverage of Columbine related games?

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Just a reminder that it’s still not too late to give to the Child’s Play Charity! This year you can donate to the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

You can donate money directly through PayPal from the charity’s homepage, or buy video games through Amazon.com that will be sent directly to the hospital (follow the links below).

Have you donated anything yet?

Child’s Play Homepage

Montreal Children’s Hospital Amazon Wish List

From developmag.com:

"On Monday Eidos officially opened its new Montreal studio, welcoming Canadian business and industry trade press to tour the facility. Devel

op was on hand to talk to studio head Stephane D’Astous about the building of the new studio, its first project Deus Ex 3 and plans for the future…"

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From gamesindustry.biz:

"According to the company, the title has sold through more than two and a half million units worldwide in less than four weeks. Ubisoft forecasts that it will sell at least five million copies [of Assassin's Creed] in 2007-08, where it had previously predicted three million in sales."

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