From canada.com:
The world already knows the Montreal region as the home of the Cirque du Soleil, Leonard Cohen and Céline Dion. The city’s fertile soil also fosters many festivals, a prominent video-game industry and vigorous art, theatre, dance and song.
To be any good, a brand has to correspond with reality. Mayor Gérald Tremblay’s [...]

From pocketgamer.co.uk:
Gameloft dropped us a line to report that the company has clocked up its 200 millionth game download since launch in 2003 – the kind of figure that blows up anyone’s skirt, we’re sure you’ll agree.
"At Gameloft, we believe that consumers are uncompromising," says Gameloft president Michel Guillemot. "They want the best [...]

From kotaku.com:
Wheelman, the open world Vin Diesel racer, may be the first title to be properly reorganized under Midway’s chapter 11 bankruptcy, as Kotaku has heard that the game has found a new home at Ubisoft.
We’d learned from a source last week that the game was planned to change publishers, with an announcement [...]

From igda.org/montreal:
When: Wednesday, February 25th @ 7:00pm
What: IGDA-Montreal Presentation Night
Where: The SAT, 1195 St.Laurent
Why: Clint Hocking Speaks!
Who: All game developers, and those related to the game industry
Entry: free for IGDA members; $5 for non-members

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Around the third year of a given console generation, everyone starts to speculate about what the Next Generation [...]

From joystiq.com:
Ubisoft is adding on to its enormous acquisition war chest, and the Imagine series is bringing the duckets: The company just hit the 1 million mark on its casual series for 2008 in the UK. Speaking with CasualGaming.biz, Ubisoft group brand manager Mark Slaughter said, "The Imagine series and the broader Games For [...]

From straight.com:
The main threat to the prominence of Vancouver’s game-development industry comes not from Bangalore or Budapest, but from Montreal. While Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island all offer incentives to new-media companies, the Quebec government supports the production of “multimedia titles” with a tax credit of up to 37.5 percent of [...]

From developmag.com:
Canadian [Montreal] middleware provider Audiokinetic may have launched its new SoundSeed product as a family of plug-ins for its established WaveWorks Interactive Sound Engine (Wwise), but it seems that the potential is much wider.
“At the moment, we’re releasing SoundSeed through Wwise because we’re looking to extend Wwise as a platform – but [...]

From igda.org/montreal:

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IGDA Montreal members jammed into the SAT in the midst of a full-bore January snowstorm to play some LittleBigPlanet . Siobhan Reddy, Executive Producer, and Kareem Ettouney, Art Director, were on hand to talk about their PS3 hit title. They described how they grew the game, and the Media Molecule studio, from [...]