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Video-game development surging in quebec: study

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Quebec has become one of the top regions for video game development, a new study contends. The province, which boasts an estimated 6,200 jobs in the video-game industry, is considered "mature," as it features a high growth rate and complexity of games, said the study by Secor-Taktik, a consulting firm.
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Published: 405 days 13 hours ago | News | Industry News
 
 

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No FanS Land - 405 days 12 hours ago
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The biggest Ubisoft studio is here (twice a big in number of employees than ubi central in france). All the good tom clancy's are developped here, Assassin's Creed, and they're about to launch Prince of Persia.
That's where I'm going later.
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Gothdom - 405 days 12 hours ago
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I think NHL 2009 was made in Montreal. I might be wrong, but I know EA made one sport title there.

Also, the schools around here really pushes the multimedia formats, from publicity, to programming passing by arts.
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No FanS Land - 405 days 12 hours ago
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Yeah in the college I study, it's so much advanced that I'm allowed to skip one year in university.
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Montrealien - 405 days 12 hours ago
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they do the PS2/ports of NHL here in MTL, the original game and concept is all done at EA Canada`s Vancouver`s Black Box studio. EA did Army of Two here, and are curently working on *cough*Army of two, ummm 2? *cough* atm.

For a good idea of what`s going here in MTL, I suggest you guys check out this article, it features the tip of the iceberg of the of the pople working on games here.

http://www.n4g.com/NewsPend...
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Surfman - 405 days 11 hours ago
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Yea orginally NHL 0* were in Montreal for few years, but now in Vancouver since 2 years i think, both are doing a pretty good job anyway for that game.
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BattleAxe - 405 days 9 hours ago
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Alot of the EA sports games are made in Vancouver. Montreal can have Slant 6, because after Socom: Confrontation, we don't want them.
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4wire - 405 days 12 hours ago
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There's nothing like poutine to induce a creative buzz. :)
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Surfman - 405 days 11 hours ago
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god bless poutine.
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BattleAxe - 405 days 9 hours ago
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Poutine is available all over Canada now. So much for french culture.........
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firetaw - 405 days 7 hours ago
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4 - we also have snow
whitch makes it ideal for cooling down the servers. more power to put into servers then on air conditionners. quebec also has killer mountains to ski and snowboard on. nothing like canadian culture.
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