Dontnod crescendo. Abrindo estúdio em Montreal.
A strategic location for a new original creation project
Paris, May 29th 2020. DONTNOD Entertainment, an independent French video game creation and development studio, is proud to announce a strengthening of its production capacity with the creation in June 2020 of a subsidiary in Montreal, Canada.
Creator of successful franchises like Life Is Strange and Vampyr, DONTNOD currently employs nearly 250 people in France. The opening of an office in one of the most dynamic cities in the world, which also offers a favorable ecosystem to video game companies, will attract new talent and thus strengthen the studio's development and innovation capacity. These will enrich the skills of the current teams with the aim of accelerating the rise of the studio by offering players new gaming experiences, always more innovative, immersive and engaging.
This location in Montreal, the nerve center of the video game industry in Canada, will also allow DONTNOD to strengthen its international influence. This long-term investment strategy is motivated by a desire to get closer to the North American territory which today represents the number 1 market for DONTNOD games.
The anchoring in the Quebec metropolis will materialize by the launch of a new original IP. Ultimately, the team should be composed of around fifty experts, partly from the Group's Parisian teams and new profiles from the pool of local talents among the richest in the world, in order to support the ramp-up of development of new games.
Oskar Guilbert, President and CEO of DONTNOD: “We are extremely pleased with the creation of our subsidiary in Montreal. The opening of this entity will allow us to add a new production chain in addition to our teams based in France and already recognized internationally for the quality of their achievements. With its dynamism and a very large pool of qualified talent, Montreal is the ideal place to accelerate our development with a new project and to tell new captivating stories to our players."