Archive for March, 2009

Mar 31 2009

Ubisoft insiders talk film-game convergence

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From au.gamespot.com (via joystiq.com):
Ubi Montreal’s Yannis Mallat, Far Cry 2 lead Clint Hocking, POP producer Ben Mattes, and EndWar director Michael De Plater discuss the French publisher’s approach to film-game cross-pollination.
The first day of the 2009 Game Developers Conference Monday saw some of Ubisoft’s leading lights gather for an informal panel. On Monday [...]

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Mar 31 2009

Student Paper Covers Montreal Game Dev Scene

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From quartierlibre.ca (via igda.org):
Quartier Libre, the independent newspaper for students at Universite de Montreal, has a series of game related articles including coverage of the game development scene in Montreal.
They also cover Wii gaming by seniors and research efforts between films and games.

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Mar 12 2009

EA Montreal Announces Army of Two: The 40th Day

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From ea.com:
EA Montreal, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc., today announced ARMY OF TWO(TM): THE 40th DAY. The ultimate two-man private military team of Salem and Rios return in this epic sequel where they must survive and prevail in a city under siege. EA Montreal is once again leading the next evolution in co-op [...]

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Mar 12 2009

Foreign IT companies move to Montreal to save money

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From marketwire.com:
Kovasys Inc. an IT recruitment agency in Montreal, has been witnessing a large influx of American and foreign IT companies coming to Canada – especially Montreal – to do their technology projects. Due to the unstable economy in the US and Europe and massive layoffs, more and more companies are deciding to save [...]

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Mar 10 2009

Ubisoft and Microsoft team up to lure game developers

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From canada.com:
Media in Canada reports that Ubisoft Montreal teamed up with Microsoft to promote the Visual Studio development software through ads embedded in Far Cry 2.
Ads in the game lead players to a "secret section" of the Canadian version of the Far Cry 2 website. There they will be invited to download trial [...]

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Mar 10 2009

Babel Media and VoiceWorks Productions Form Alliance

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From gamedaily.com:
Today, Babel Media announced that it has signed a partnership with VoiceWorks Productions. The two companies will work together to create greater consistency between original English voice overs and various localized versions. This will allow developers to use one source for all versions of a game’s voice acting.
"Babel are always looking for [...]

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Mar 09 2009

Montreal game company links updated

Published by Chris Comeau under News

I have just added a few more links to our Montreal video game company listing.
You can access the whole list here. Here are the latest entries:

Bioware Montreal
Yu Centrik
Di-O-Matic
Anomalik
Airborne Mobile
Bug Tracker
Quazal
Xaracom
Feeling Software
Darwin Dimensions
Babel Media
NDi Kids
Musitechnic

If I am missing some good ones, please let me know!

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Mar 06 2009

The Red Steel 2 That Never Was

Published by Chris Comeau under News

From unseen64.net (via kotaku.com):
If you have worked on this project at Ubisoft Montreal please share your experience with us!
Red Steel 2 is coming. But did you know the version we’ll be getting sometime in the next 12 months or so is the second Red Steel 2 that’s been in development?
Yes, before the current [...]

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