From Financial Post:

Few People these days have to notice Montreal’s arrival on the world stage as major centre for the development of digital media and computer gaming. The city is today home to offices of some of the largest names of the business — Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and the homegrown 3D digital-effects company, SoftImage. So established is the city’s cluster that few recall that it is barely a decade old. In the mid-1990s, there wasn’t much of an industry to speak of, recalls Nicholas Rioux, general manager of Ubisoft’s Quebec City offices. "Before Ubisoft, the gaming industry wasn’t really there," says Rioux, who worked in Ubisoft’s Montreal office when the company first moved there in the late 1990s, taking advantage of a tax break from the provincial government. The company has been an anchor firm for the development of the gaming sector there.

Since then, however, the games companies have followed. Electronic Arts, the other giant on the Montreal gaming scene, built its studio there in 2004. Airborne Entertainment and Mistic Software are other big-ticket firms that have lent their economic and intellectual muscle to the province. An industry organization called Alliance Numerique has also sprung to promote the multimedia industry across the entire province. It now counts some 250 members.

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