Ubisoft purchases Montreal's Quazal Technologies

Posted by Rob Lewis on 2010-11-05 8:50:00 AM

The Montreal Gazette is reporting that Ubisoft has purchased Montreal-based Quazal Technologies. Quazal creates software for online multiplayer aspects of video games.

Paris-based Ubisoft, which has its largest studio in Montreal's Mile End, has used Quazal in many of its games, including Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, which was named Best Online Game at the most recent E3 conference.

In a statement, the company said Quazal will continue to expand its technology and services, which will remain available for licence to the general gaming industry.

Company:
Quazal Technologies Inc.
Website:
http://www.quazal.com
Location:
Montréal, Québec, Canada

The Early Beginnings It all started with the dream of producing a cross-platform, massively multiplayer game way back in 1996. We hired the CRIM to research existing technologies to produce such a game within a reasonable budget. In the end, we found that the available technology (read client/server database-driven) provided slow interaction and was expensive to operate. Not satisfied with what was available on... more

Company:
Ubisoft
Website:
http://www.ubi.com
Location:
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Ubisoft is a leading international developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products. more


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