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Assassin’s Creed previewed by Ubisoft
The Montreal-made Assassin’s Creed Revelations is due out in November, but the buzz is still palpable. To keep that buzz alive, Ubisoft previewed the game during a press conference Tuesday. There’s a...
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A demo of award-winning Papo and Yo
Earlier this month, I finally got the chance to play one of the most talked-about video games being developed in Montreal. Papo and Yo will be available for download from the Sony Playstation Network...
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Video game tax breaks: on borrowed time?
In the coming months, as the U.S. struggles to find new ways of reducing its ballooning debt, the video game industry could come under the microscope for the enormous tax breaks it has been receiving...
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High tech hotbed – Matane?
It may seem far away, and in fact it is, but one of the newest high-tech hotbeds appears to be Matane. You know, the first city in the Gaspé peninsula, which until this point had its only claim to fame...
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Ubisoft gives Assassin’s Creed goodies
There’s just one week before the much-anticipated Assassin’s Creed Revelations comes out, there’s a free app out by Ubisoft today, perhaps in an effort to build up the height for the newest...
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New court knock-out in Montreal video-game talent poaching fight
THQ, the big California video-game developer that set up shop in Montreal just over a year ago, is claiming victory after Quebec’s highest court struck down part of an injunction that had prohibited it...
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Splinter Cell Blacklist gameplay demo unveiled
At the E3 conference on Monday, Ubisoft is unveiling several highly anticipated games. Among them is Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist. It’s the first production of Ubisoft’s Toronto studio, which...
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Ubisoft shows off Assassin’s Creed III gameplay demo at E3
It’s a big E3 for Ubisoft Montreal, which is celebrating its 15 years in Montreal. The studio unveiled a lot of goodies, including trailers and demos of Far Cry 3, but it was the gameplay demo of the...
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Working It: Ubisoft Scriptwriter Jill Murray
Jill Murray is pioneer in the gaming world. As a rare female scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal, Murray started her career only a few years ago with Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012, going on to write...
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POP Montreal: Sarah Neufeld on the Ubisoft roof; Sept. 20, 2014
In the end the weather may have been perfect. Rain threatened – and indeed, a few drops fell – as Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld began her set atop the Ubisoft roof, dusk falling all around....
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Ubisoft debuts trio of games at E3
Ubisoft debuted a trio of new games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. The video game publisher unveiled the superhero-themed follow-up South Park: The Fractured But Whole, the...
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Electronic Arts taps Jade Raymond, formerly of Ubisoft, for Montreal studio
TORONTO — Video game giant Electronic Arts has tapped former Ubisoft Toronto head Jade Raymond to run a new game development studio in Montreal. File photo of Jade Raymond. Raymond spent a decade at...
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Top apps, games: Assassin's Creed Identity now on iOS, but don't ask about...
Originally launched in 2014, Assassin’s Creed Identity is back in the charts with its new iOS version for phones and tablets, urged users on its Facebook page to “get ready to slay your way through...
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Montreal this morning: Hold on to your hats, and maybe your umbrellas, too
We’ll see a mix of sun and clouds today, with a chance of showers in the afternoon. It will be breezy, with 30 km/h winds gusting to 50. Today’s high: 11. UV index 5 or moderate. Tonight, expect a low...
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Top phone apps and games: Morons and sharks and zombies
Activision’s Call of Duty: Zombies is lurching back into the Top 10 in Apple’s app store as is the newly updated Moron Test, from DistinctDev. And Ubisoft’s Hungry Shark World? It’s fallen a little...
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Business a.m.: Ubisoft goes to Serbia, Volkswagen chops 30,000 jobs
Here’s our look at the big stories this morning on the business beat: Ubisoft expands again: International gaming company Ubisoft, a major employer in Montreal, has opened a new production studio in...
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Montreal: Canada's new job-creation capital
After years of languishing on the employment front, Montreal is finding itself suddenly, and with little fanfare, in the midst of a job boom. Long a leader in the unemployment rankings compared to...
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Ubisoft celebrates 20 years in Mile End Montreal with games all summer
In the 1990s, the streets of eastern Mile End were mostly deserted, populated by artists who had moved into old derelict factories and warehouses, to live and work alongside some of the last remaining...
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Stingray CEO: Payroll tax credit for video-game makers hurting other tech firms
A local tech CEO says a provincial payroll tax credit — intended to help create jobs — is making it more difficult for companies like his to hire and is giving video-game makers an unfair advantage....
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Partly made in Montreal: What we know about the new Assassin's Creed
So long verisimilitude; hello characters that wouldn’t look out of place in The Lego Movie. Ubisoft announced on Tuesday that the venerable Assassin’s Creed franchise, which has already spawned more...
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