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BioWare Forms New Montreal Group To Work On Mass Effect 2
by Leigh Alexander
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March 2, 2009
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BioWare is forming a new studio group within Electronic Arts Montreal, hiring 30 new staffers to support the team developing Mass Effect 2 in Edmonton.
"Our new presence... will be located within the existing EA Montreal facilities," BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka tells Gamasutra today. "It's great that we have a strong foundation to build out of."
The company will be hiring artists, animators, designers and other positions to join the team working on Mass Effect 2.
"We'll be working together with our friends at EA Montreal," says Muzyka. "There's a great studio here continuing full-force with a whole bunch of really cool, exciting things as well."
The new studio and project won't affect existing projects at EA Montreal. Neither will BioWare's existing work on Dragon Age and Star Wars: The Old Republic in Austin be affected -- nor any of what Muzyka calls "a couple unannounced projects... really cool future stuff."
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As for why specificly Montreal. Like the article says, EA has a studio there that they are setting up shop in, so the costs are even lower. Its not like the talent or availability thereof in Montreal is any better than anywhere else in the world.
From a business standpoint its a smart move, every other game developer and publisher on the planet is doing it.
Shows that the old 'bread cast upon the waters' principle still works... Too bad it takes an accident of politics to get this kind of investment in high-tech infrastructure.