Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is the latest company to take advantage of Canada's talent (and yummy, yummy tax incentives) for game developers and publishers. GameFocus reports that WBIE (WBI-oui?) will open a new studio in Montreal that will be lead by division president Martin Tremblay and employ over 300 people. The studio will be known as WB Games Montreal. We've contacted WBIE for comment on the new studio, but the publisher has yet to make a formal announcement.
In a previous professional life, Tremblay was the big fromage at Vivendi and Ubisoft Montreal. The executive also apparently claimed that the publisher would open a studio in another city soon. That could be a new studio, or it could be a developer WB has invested in, like Turbine -- or a solid developer that's recently tripped into some eye-catching success.
Update: The province of Quebec has made it official.
Reader Comments (7)
Posted: Mar 22nd 2010 5:11PM guru47 said
Great news!
Posted: Mar 22nd 2010 5:11PM Debley said
Give me a DCAU game
Posted: Mar 22nd 2010 6:19PM Grand Kerfuffle said
Great stuff, good to see more investment in Canada.
Posted: Mar 22nd 2010 10:15PM (Unverified) said
Great news for us game devs. !
Posted: Mar 22nd 2010 10:52PM hsol said
I'm guessing this studio will be making non-batman DC games. If so, smart move. You wouldn't want Rocksteady to be your sole breadwinner in terms of making good DC games.
Posted: Mar 24th 2010 6:32PM (Unverified) said
Even assuming this particular web site is Canadian, and I don't know if it is,you mean to tell me that we don't have 300 or so people here in the states that could benefit from these jobs? Does Warner/DC do any production for anything in the U.S. anymore? Remember Canadian financiers are way overextended in U.S.loans and if the American economy tanks like Greece Canada goes down with the U.S.Just a thought gamers.
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