Bienvenue à Montréal!
Reporting from Montréal this week where, thankfully, I’m staying in a rather anglo-centric area so that I don’t insult/torment French culture with my mutilated Franglais. Although my reasons for being here are non-gaming, it certainly hasn’t stopped me from scouring my area around Saint-Catherine and Guy for information.
I’m happy to report that video game culture is alive and well here in Montréal. I’m staying two doors down from a large 24-hour gaming café, Ubisoft, Eidos and EA are all within a short walk (I’ll stalk them later), and the number of studios developing either games, or software for game development is continuing to rise. Last nightin another part of the city, on an after dinner walk, I randomly overheard a discussion that began “Well you Sandstorm them and then just wait…” Nothing like a UTIII reference in the posh shopping district to make you grin.
Montréal is a very happy place for video games at the moment.
I visited Ubisoft to preview Shaun White Snowboarding. It was a pretty fantastic time.
I’d love to, but unfortunately my “vacation” is a working one, so I don’t have time to interview, expose and otherwise pester the devs. I’ll just have to settle for taking pictures outside like a stalker!