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New Montreal game company map, and updated listing
We now have a Facebook fan page.
A stock ticker in the left sidebar with few Montreal game companies

 
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From Wired:
Hot on the heels of the trailer for the Prince of Persia film, Ubisoft has announced that the next Prince of Persia game will be available in May 2010.
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands will abandon the new storyline from last year’s series reboot and go back to the world of Sands [...]

From GameTrailers:
Here’s a nice review of Ubisoft Montreal’s sequel.
Does anyone from Ubi care to comment on what it was like to work on this project?
 
Does Assassin’s Creed II go a step further to become one of the industry’s greats?

Video Games | Assassin’s Creed II | Review HD
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From GameIndustry.biz (via IGDA Montreal):
Artifical Mind & Movement is one of Montreal’s largest independent game development studios with over 500 members of staff, and a portfolio of licensed titles including Indiana Jones, The Sims, Iron Man and Scene It? Earlier this year, the company also released its own original intellectual property, WET, with publishing [...]

From PlayStationLifeStyle:
At this year’s London MCM Expo PlayStation LifeStyle managed to talk to Kevin Shortt, the lead script writer for Avatar: The Game about everything from the title, to the movie, to fighting cosplayers. The game is set two years before the events of James Cameron’s heavily anticipated movie, giving the game far more creative [...]

From Flickr:
 
Here is a link to Flickr user CasualCapture’s gallery of photos from the Montreal International Game Summit ‘09.
Does anyone have their own gallery they would like to share?
Post a link in the comment sections.
 
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From Blogcritics:
Jonathan Cooper, a Lead Animator at BioWare, works on some of the most cinematic games of our generation but he has bigger dreams for what the games can achieve.
Jonathon recently conducted a seminar at the Montreal International Games Summit about making cinematics to enhance the story without resorting to drastic cutscenes.
Jonathan currently [...]

From IGN:
Ubisoft Montreal’s Kevin Shortt has confirmed that Far Cry 3 is in development, with the game looking ‘pretty exciting’ at this early stage.
Shortt worked as a writer on the second game, and confirmed the existence of a third in an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine UK (via CVG). Whether it will remain [...]