The Canadian court will not consider charges against Electronic Arts (EA) concerning violations of the gambling law. He did not agree that the company uses gambling practices by adding loot boxes to games.

According to the company, Anemone Hug Interactive became the first full-service development studio in Canada to organize a trade union.

Quebec, one of the provinces of Canada, has greatly lost its attractiveness in the eyes of the gaming industry workers. The new law on the French language, which recently came into force here, is to blame for this.

Another studio decided to switch to a four-day working week. Eidos Montreal has announced that it will no longer work on Fridays. Separately, the developer of the Deus Ex and Tomb Raider series clarified that the new schedule will not affect the working conditions and salaries of employees in any way.Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

TiMi Studios, a subsidiary of Tencent, has an office in Montreal. The new studio will develop a multiplatform AAA game with an open world. In the future, based on this project, a full-fledged game metaverse from TiMi Studios may appear.

Today, Canada is one of the most favorable places to create games. However, this was not always the case. Game consultant Pierre Moisan told about how the country has gone from an economic crisis to the creation of a thriving ecosystem for developers in just over 20 years. At one time, he helped Ubisoft open an office in Quebec, and today he works with indie studios.

Room 8 Studio is a Ukrainian outsourcer that helps other companies with the development and porting of games. Yesterday, the studio announced the opening of a new office in Montreal as part of its global expansion strategy.Room 8 Studio announced this on June 30 on its official website.

NPD and Sensor Tower analyzed the mobile games market in the USA and Canada. Audience growth in these countries is slowing down, but revenue has increased.

The gaming industry’s contribution to Canadian GDP has reached $3.4 billion. This amount is 20% more than two years ago.

The prices for game studios in North America and Scandinavia are “pure madness”. This was stated by the top manager of Phoenix Games, a company that seeks to create an international network of game developers.

According to Sensor Tower and NPD Group, there are 210.9 million mobile gamers in the USA and Canada. Over the past year, their number has increased by 5%.

Canada ranks 8th in the world in terms of gaming market turnover. In 2018, the spending of gamers from this country will amount to $2.3 billion, Newzoo analysts estimate.

Canadian scientists from Queens University have found out what spoils the impression of video games. It turned out that bad game design annoys players the most when the gameplay is not exciting and makes them bored.

The free-play MMO action game Warframe by the Canadian studio Digital Extreme turns 5 years old in a week. During the existence of the game, more than 38 million players have registered in it, the developers said.

The main motive for a gamer to continue rather than quit the game is his desire to make progress in it. This is stated in a study by the analytical company Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR), conducted in 2017 in North America.

The Canadian company Behavior Interactive liquidated the Chilean branch and laid off about 30 employees. Behavior Interactive is known as the developer of Fallout Shelter, Day by Daylight and other games.

The French company Ubisoft has announced the creation of two new offices in the Canadian province of Quebec. This will create more than 1,000 new jobs in the region in a ten-year perspective.

Canadian mobile game developer Hibernum Creations has laid off most of the studio’s staff — over 100 employees.

Beijing-based mobile game developer ZPlay has bought a 70% stake in Canadian indie publisher Noodlecake Studios for $4.9 million.