From VirtualWorldNews:
Tribal Nova’s co-founders and majority shareholders, Guillaume Aniorté and Pierre Le Lann, announced yesterday that the company had nominated Eric Brassard for the position of CEO of the company. Brassard has been with the company, which is behind several kids virtual worlds, as EVP of Marketing since 2008. The foudners say the nomination [...]

From Gamasutra:
In an attempt to make its PC games more secure and take advantage of online services, Ubisoft says it will require constant connectivity in "most" of its upcoming games for the platform.
Ubisoft has been particularly vocal about the severity of PC game piracy, with executives mentioning the issue in numerous analyst conference [...]

BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 (partially developed in Montreal) is now available in stores.
Have you played it yet? Were you on the dev team? Tell us your experience in the comment section.
 
 
Here’s a review from GameTrailers, after the break:
The sequel to Mass Effect is finally here. Does it boldly go places where its predecessor dared [...]

GRIP Entertainment, an emerging player in advanced video game artificial intelligence, today announced the GRIP Digital Extra System has been licensed by EA Montreal, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. for the epic co-op third person shooter ARMY OF TWO: THE 40th DAY.
The GRIP Digital Extra System enables game developers to rapidly create vibrant [...]

From XFire (via @biofeed):
January 21st [3:00pm EST], join us here to watch an exclusive broadcast of Mass Effect 2! Watch as the producer of the game runs you through the latest content, then stay for a Q&A about the game!
Under 2 hours till Jesse Houston & Christina Norman do a live playthrough of new ME2 [...]

From Xbox360Asylum.ca:
Canadian developed titles doing strong lead by EA Montréal’s Army of Two: The 40th Day, but Dragon Age: Origins and Assassin’s Creed II are still holding strong.

 
Blockbuster Top 10 list (Xbox 360)
01. – Army of Two: The 40th Day 02. – Darksiders [...]