News Room Contributor Posts: 4911 Joined: 12 Nov 2002 | Silicon Knights Joins Niagara Region Incubator Scheme
Canadian developer Silicon Knights has announced it is contributing to a new-media "incubator scheme" in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada.
A report in Develop magazine says the project is intended to help foster the development of new-media-related business in the area, as well as attract and keep college and university graduates trained in relevant fields. Other agencies participating in the project along with Silicon Knights include Brock University, Niagara College, the city of St. Catharines, the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara Enterprise Agency and Interactive Ontario.
"They are the largest game developer in Ontario and having that real-time knowledge and experience here at the table is critical," said St. Catharines Mayor Brian McMullan. "When we talk about efforts to retain young people and the jobs of the future in a knowledge-based economy, this is clearly one of those business generators that we believe will help St. Catharines become well-positioned to participate in the interactive media sector."
Founded in 1992 by Denis Dyack, Silicon Knights is the developer of the long-awaited Too Human for the Xbox 360, currently scheduled for release sometime in 2008. The company also stepped into the spotlight in July 2007, when it sued Epic Games over shortcomings in the Unreal Engine 3, which Dyack claimed led to numerous delays in the game's development.
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Reviewer Posts: 93 Joined: 13 Feb 2007 | St. Catharines: a new-media juggernaut? Having lived there, it's pretty hard to believe. Great little news tidbit though, for us Canadians.
That whole legal debacle over the UE3 engine seems more than a little lame, on Silicon Knights' part. Quit whining and make the damn game, no one else seems to have had a problem with the engine. |
News Room Contributor Posts: 4911 Joined: 12 Nov 2002 | It may be a reaction to what they see happening in Quebec. There's a lot of money to be made in the industry, and since nobody else in Ontario seems to be making much of an effort to get their share, why not St. Catharines?
(Also, for the apparent non-Canadians who wrote the original press releases as well as my spell checkers, it is in fact St. Catharines and not St. Catherines. Get an atlas.) |
Silicon Knights Joins Niagara Region Incubator Scheme
Canadian developer Silicon Knights has announced it is contributing to a new-media "incubator scheme" in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada.
A report in Develop magazine says the project is intended to help foster the development of new-media-related business in the area, as well as attract and keep college and university graduates trained in relevant fields. Other agencies participating in the project along with Silicon Knights include Brock University, Niagara College, the city of St. Catharines, the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara Enterprise Agency and Interactive Ontario.
"They are the largest game developer in Ontario and having that real-time knowledge and experience here at the table is critical," said St. Catharines Mayor Brian McMullan. "When we talk about efforts to retain young people and the jobs of the future in a knowledge-based economy, this is clearly one of those business generators that we believe will help St. Catharines become well-positioned to participate in the interactive media sector."
Founded in 1992 by Denis Dyack, Silicon Knights is the developer of the long-awaited Too Human for the Xbox 360, currently scheduled for release sometime in 2008. The company also stepped into the spotlight in July 2007, when it sued Epic Games over shortcomings in the Unreal Engine 3, which Dyack claimed led to numerous delays in the game's development.
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