SoftImage announced this week that they were acquired by Autodesk for $35 million. Autodesk is a leading 3D software company, makers of acclaimed 3D modeling packages such as AutoCAD (industrial design, architecture, engineering), 3DS Max (video games, video CG effects), Maya (open architecture, used in video CG). On the other hand, SoftImage’s leading product is [...]
video games in Montreal
Job Listing: Video Game Programmers and Artists at 3pod
Company: 3pod Position: Video Game Programmers and Artists Description: 3POD is currently recruiting for Video Game Programmers and Artists for Montréal, and Quebec City and International opportunities We are working with most of the intermediate to large studios in Québec and abroad! If you have 2 years + of video game industry experience and looking [...]
SAT’s outcry about cuts by the federal government
Videopresse (by Christian Aubry) did an interview this wednesday of Richard Langevin, during the public protest at Société des Arts Technologiques. He explains that by cutting in subventions, Ottawa is threatening programs, exhibitions, events, and also the support that the SAT is giving to digital artists. They also do research & development about digital identity [...]
Bigger and bigger video game studios
Roberto Rocha has an article telling Ubisoft’s acquisition of Hybride Technologies, the studio who made the special effects of movie hits 300 or Sin City. The studio’s talent and assets will be used for the production of video games, and also for move tie-ins. The acquisition comes also in a week where Blizzard and Activitision [...]
Eidos continues expansion of development studio
Eidos Montreal is currently looking to fill several new job openings as they prepare to form the second of three planned development teams. These openings range from Senior Network Programmer to Technical Librarian/Intraweb Support, with an emphasis on senior and artistic positions. If working in the game industry is something that appeals to you or [...]
A couple of GameCamp and Interfaces Conference write-ups
In this article posted on the IGDA Montreal blog, Pierre Boudreau provides us with brief summaries of each of GameCamp’s 20 mini-presentations. It’s no substitute for attending the actual six minute talks, but is nonetheless a nice overview that shows those of us who were unable to attend what kind of event GameCamp is and [...]
Interfaces Montréal – New Frontiers in Gaming
The fourth Interfaces Montréal demo-conference of 2008, New Frontiers in Gaming, will be held next Tuesday, April 8th, at the SAT. The theme of the conference appears to be an exploration of the new platforms and gameplay that are changing the way we interact with and experience video games. Since it is a “demo-conference” it [...]
Report: GameCamp
I went last wednesday to GameCamp — mostly because it was the first edition. This post is not much a report about the presentations, I’ll leave this to the more informed Michel, but more a comparison of the “Web/Entrepreneur” vs “video games” community. What I’ve seen is the Web people we see in Barcamps and [...]
Alliance Numerique finally launches blog section, still a long way to go
Alliance Numérique has inaugurated today their blog section, with 3 authors coming from Alliance Numérique, and a fourth contributor coming from Strataction, a strategy consulting firm. Alliance Numérique holds an enviable position as the main business network for everyone in the multimedia and video games industry in Quebec. Their new blog section leaves a lot [...]
GameCamp Montreal
The next meeting of the IGDA’s Montreal Chapter will take place at the SAT on Wednesday, the 26th. With 20 presentations limited to 6 minutes each, I’m expecting it to be a super condensed version of last November’s Montreal International Game Summit. GameCamp, like MIGS, appears to draw on a large spectrum of topics and [...]
