Competition could be driving the move – after all, Ubisoft has a thriving studio in Quebec’s main city. Or it could be that they just want to add more fries poutine to their diet. Either way, THQ is opening a new studio in Montreal. Thew new studio will create 400 new jobs for the game developer in fields ranging from technology development...

When we spoke to EA Montreal’s Alex Hutchinson back at Eurogamer Expo 2009 about Army of Two: The 40th Day , he told us about how he and the team thought Europe misunderstood the original game. Apparently while America understood that that this was meant to be kind of like a buddy cop movie, Europe thought that this was a serious and harsh view on...

Lance Henriksen, aka Bishop from the Aliens, Alien 3 and the first Aliens vs. Predator movies, will have a role in Rebellion’s upcoming Aliens vs. Predator, Sega announced today, where he plays Karl Bishop Weyland, a descendant of the Weyland-Yutani corporation founder Charles Bishop Weyland. “They’ve made me look very good,” Henriksen himself...

While Bungie considers Halo 3: ODST to be a game standing firmly on its own two feet, it didn’t start out as such, nor did its marketing. The result was what they consider to be a AAA title seen in the eyes of many as an expansion pack carrying the price of a full game. The somewhat botched marketing is something they’re fully aware of, and own...

Good news for the Modern Warfare 2 fans in the United Kingdom. Those who ordered the game from The Hut and, by proxy, LoveFilm have been getting an early delivery on their doorsteps lately, but not by design. “We are dedicated to getting products to customers on release. We use Royal Mail as our preferred courier and were advised to dispatch on Thursday...

The shooter aspect of Mass Effect was lacking a little and was perhaps too rooted in RPG mechanics. Fortunately for us BioWare is making sure to make the shooter part more shooter-like and keeping the RPG elements very RPG-like. “The advantages of starting with all the technology is we can focus on just making the shooting fun. There’s always a...

Robot ninjas. Robot. Ninjas. If the world was fair and just we could end this preview now confident in the knowledge that we’ve said all we need to say about Plain Sight. But convention dictates that we continue, so here we go. Plain Sight is the debut title from UK-based indies Beatnik Games. It’s a competitive multiplayer game with a stonkingly...

Plenty of fans got excited when Hideo Kojima let slip that making a sequel to Zone of the Enders was on the top of his priorities list. But members of general public aren’t the only ones who can’t contain themselves over the possibility of another title in Kojima’s beloved giant mech series. It seems ever since that statement by Kojima a few...

What do you get when two developers are creating games based on the same intellectual property? Why, a healthy rivalry, of course. Development house Rebellion is currently working on Aliens vs. Predator, while Gearbox is currently developing Aliens: Colonial Marines. Rebellion senior producer David Brickley spoke of the nature of the rivalry that’s...

During last week’s episode of GT’s Bonus Round, Wedbush Securities analyst and industry guru Michael Pachter predicted that the price for an Xbox Live Gold subscription would be going up. Said Pachter during the show, “You can’t hook a guy into Xbox Live Gold if he’s playing on a PC … that’s the other problem — you really want to hook...