This week Business in Vancouver newspaper printed their annual Biggest Video Game Companies in B.C. list and the usual suspects are all there.
The Top 10 employers include Electronic Arts, Capcom...
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Ubisoft announced yesterday that it has closed its Vancouver development studio, which previously worked on various sports titles for the publisher, including: Pure Futbol for Xbox 360, PC, and...
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At the age of 14, Jade Raymond, Managing Director and Studio Head at Ubisoft Toronto had an epiphany. She knew that she wanted to work in the gaming industry. Her favourite subjects in school were...
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Electronic Arts and Bioware's Mass Effect 2 led the Canadian Videogame Awards, taking home four awards, while Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed won two.
Celebrating Canadian creativity, the 2011...
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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...
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CBCNews.ca has launched an excellent series of articles and videos called “Pushing Buttons,” covering the history and future of video games in Canada, and why we should pay attention to...
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Interactive Ontario has just announced that Jordan Mechner will be a keynote speaker at the IN 2010 conference, which takes place from September 12 to 14 at the Carlu in Toronto.
Jordan is a...
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Virgin Gaming, an online gaming community, today announced it has partnered with gaming giant Ubisoft to be the online tournament provider for some of Ubisoft's anticipated multiplayer console...
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Whether or not this will affect Ubisoft Canada is still yet unknown, however, gaming website Gamasutra has reported that Electronic Arts is planning to sell off 15% of it's stake in Ubisoft. ...
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The battle for the Canadian game development crown continues to wage on. While West Coast powerhouse Vancouver has long been seen as the National Champ when it comes to drawing in (and holding...
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In the wake of the Canadian Video Game Awards, as covered by Warren Frey last week, many are probably wondering: just where does the Canadian video game scene stand?
Recently, Canada has been...
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The Canadian Videogame Awards kicked off their inaugural ceremony last night in high style with the complete history of pixelated awesomeness encapsulated within ten minutes by Video Games Live, a...
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According to our records, the following are the ten biggest video game developers in BC but our employee count data goes back to 2009. If you work for one of these game developers and can help us...
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Recently we have featured a number of articles on the work of the Ontario Technology Corridor. The Ontario Technology Corridor includes the Greater Toronto area, Ottawa region, Waterloo...
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Techvibes contributor Eric Floresca recently informed the Canadian tech community about Ubisoft's new Toronto location. That announcement is just a part of the growing area known as...
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To check our early coverage of this location click here. Turns out Kevin Q. Frank was right in his guess picking 224 Wallace Avenue as the new Ubisoft Toronto location. @UBI_EMPLOYEE1 has some...
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According to @UBI_EMPLOYEE1 Ubisoft will be announcing today the location of their Toronto studio. In July Ubisoft announced that it was going to open a studio in Toronto and you can check out a...
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From November 3rd to the 5th Vortex was held where many developers showed off their concepts and prototypes for games. From puzzle games to RPG’s it was 3 days of learning about what it takes...
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As reported earlier on Techvibes, Ubisoft has opened a Toronto office (http://toronto.ubisoft.com/). Here is the video of their press conference in Toronto, which also featured Dalton McGuinty...
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It looks like Ontario's push to entice game developers to relocate is paying off. The Ontario government announced today that it is investing $263 Million over the next decade to help leading video...
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