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Jade Raymond gives a video tour of Ubisoft Toronto

by Griffin McElroy on Nov 28th 2010 4:30PM

We enjoy our sworn duty of bringing you news of video game industry happenings, but if Ubisoft Toronto offered us a position, we're not sure we could say no. Jade Raymond recently led Eurogamer on a video tour of the new office, which looks like a fun-filled employer -- impromptu Nerf Wars and all.

Check out the video from the warehouse-turned-development studio over on Eurogamer. Sadly, it doesn't show off any sneak peeks from the developer's current project -- the next installment in the Splinter Cell series -- but there's plenty of video of the development team's raw Ontarion charm. That's what's truly important, right?

Source: Eurogamer

Tags: canada, developer, jade-raymond, tour, ubisoft, ubisoft-toronto, video-tour

Reader Comments (31)

Nerf guns...I´d have never guessed that is the reason why programmers spend so little time checking their games and end up with 300 bugs that no one on the team noticed........

@TheMCFacemanBandcampcom

Uh, I've played ACII and ACBH on 360, and while they're smooth 99% of the time, there are quite a few framerate drops, enough to be annoying.

The strange thing is that the drops never come when you're in combat or something like that, but in random sections where you're just running through crowds and such.

@Invigilator

well, now you can blame the nerf gun battles for the lack of attention to quality.... :P

Trolly McTrollsalot didn't hear the quote in the video where they are back to work 5 minutes after a nerf fight.

Where's your sense of fun, Unverified? Bobby Kotick's already spoken for.

@Solar Jetman

and you really believe they went back for work after the "5 minutes" break???? riiiiiigggghhhttt, i mean there is a camera turn on right?? it´s forbidden by law to lie to the camera.........just check how many bugs the new splinter cell is going to have, or even better how "different from the other splinter cells" is going to be like they said of conviction and then you can figure out how many "5 minutes" they took...........

@TheMCFacemanBandcampcom

"PS3 version will be equal and even sometime better than 360 version"

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/112/1128511p1.html

@TeraPatrick
sorry dude, but you wont get a jade raymond figure with your pre-order.....

jade raymond is not hot anymore

@GuardianLegend

surprise dude, that´s what happen when a girl is not doing a centerfold for EGM, and a photoshop lifting as an additional helper.....

@GuardianLegend

I don't know what you guys are talking about. You must like dudes.

@Noksukow - No, Porn should stick to her. HEY OOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

@Noksukow - Is she really? Wow. I'm finally at the age where porn stars from when I was in middle school are retiring.

who remembers when Joytiq was threatening to ban those who spoke nasty of Miss Raymond because every time there as an article about her games the comments turned about just what a sweet piece of ass she was... anybody?

@PR0F3TA Sounds like they had good reason.

@PR0F3TA

if that´s true then now i know which staff members of which office have an altar of jade raymond in their office.....

@PR0F3TA - It was a noble endeavor, considering what was being put out there at the time (the comic of her getting Bukake'd was especially atrocious).

That she didn't do anything to deserve the treatment she received made it all the more disgusting.

@PersianSpice

I'm going to go actually watch the video now.

>>>>>.

@PersianSpice

I approve.

CUUUTTTEEEY!!!

800 people in one studio?! Oh my.

@TeraPatrick

how unsexist of you!

@TeraPatrick

you created an account just to pitch your two cents on a video game producer? work must be slow for you in the porn industry, "tera".

@TeraPatrick

well, at least she don´t need to bag 30 dudes a day for a living, at least she is using another organ that i can tell you don´t used very often, it´s called brain...........

@(Unverified)

Hey leave "Tera Patrick" aka "The Cole Train" alone. She has feelings too. She just happens to have more "feelings" in certain parts of her body that need more tending to than most people.

Awesome

Really cool looking studio, no wonder there's a lot of talent there

Is she really? Wow. I'm finally at the age where porn stars from when I was in middle school are retiring.

@BananaBoat - .... Does replying via the mobile app not work for anyone else?

I'm in a video game programming course right now and I hope to get my internship at Ubisoft in Toronto. It looks like a great studio.

Okay, maybe I'm old fashioned but when you have a development studio with 800 people working on games (even assuming multiple games, let's say 8, with even distribution, i.e. 100 devs per game), it's no longer a game development studio, it is now a game producing factory, and the games have no soul. Hence Splinter Cell 6, Modern Warfare 12 and Assassin's Creed 7 (ok, AC2 and BH are actually good, and I wouldn't mind a 3rd one, but the other two are definitely getting long in the tooth).

@2late2die

sometimes i really, really wonder if such ridiculous amount of people is really needed, when you see some quality indie games that are even better than the games that 800 guys create then you wonder why they can make a single game better, or at least faster??????

@(Unverified) -

What really galls me is the sheer amount of bugs left in some games, despite their insanely large development teams, and high amount of QA testers. The only thing I can come up with to rationalize this is that the developers just don't care, and think that they can squash any bugs that pop up with patches (Fallout: New Vegas).

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