Montreal Tech Watch

As reported by Robert Rocha, there’s a new study by consulting firm Secor Taktik which concludes by stating that Montreal is a mature place for development of video games. Quebec’s video game industry counts over 6,200 employees. Texas, British Columbia and Quebec are among the regions that have best positioned themselves, as “mature” regions, getting [...]

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Leigh Alexander has written an excellent article exposing the disturbing actions and beliefs of Eidos Montreal’s former HR director (currently employed at Ubisoft): “…a correspondence obtained by Gamasutra suggests that some Montreal-based companies may be attempting to collude on salary caps, under the auspices of benefiting the economics of the industry in a given region [...]

Here are long overdue updates to Montreal Tech Watch: Updated “about” page with current and past contributors listed. I’m expecting to have the bio of past contributors on that page at the end of this week. Events listed on MTW are now taken directly from TechEntreprise, on the events page, instead of using the old [...]

The Montreal International Game Summit will be taking place this week, with hundreds of game designers, programmers, artists, executives, and academics descending on the Palais des Congrès (map) from around the world to share ideas and techniques. What’s exciting about the conference this year is that you don’t have to be an industry professional to [...]

Congrats to the new entrepreneurs who won Austin Hill’s and Raymond Luk’s entrepreneur contest for Thursday’s StartupEmpire event:     * Chris Advansun (DramaVida)     * Bryan Bogensberger (Reasonably Smart)     * Leonardo Borda     * Felipe Coimbra (YOWTrip)     * Dan MacGrady (IntegrateSales)     * Paolo Mazza (Alexandria High)   [...]

For those who are interested in new startups and new product launches in Montreal, the 2nd NewTech Meetup is due next Tuesday evening Nov. 11, starting from 6.30pm, at Station-C. As always, it’s all instigated and organized by Felipe Coimbra. The NewTech meetup is akin to a democamp, with demos recorded on video, and also [...]

Denis Canuel who seems to be starting new projects every two months or so (see the fun DailyDollarDeal) is looking for a sales person for a new project: I’m looking for a very motivated, performance & result oriented sales rep to cold call professionals. The person will first start working part time and will slowly move to [...]

The Tech Entrepreneur Breakfasts, which were to this day planned every month, are now going to be setup every two months instead. This means the next breakfast is due in the 2nd tuesday of December.  For entrepreneurs, this doesn’t mean a lack of activity on the high technology scene in Montreal, to the contrary. There’s [...]

Philippe Telio from Embrase, the consulting firm doing startupcampmontreal, is inviting Montréal startups looking for funding to present their companies at the startup event, due Nov 27th, which is just 3 weeks. So far, 175 people have registered, and startups have until Nov. 13 to register (use link above) in the wiki.