***** Edit - Event is over and not today. Sorry to all those Quebeckers that missed it!

Well Eidos has spent the whole night and morning talking about its open house. They are bragging all over and promoting that anyone and everyone is welcome to come in.

By going to the open house you can meet the development teams behind Theif and Deus Ex. You can see the whole studio pretty much and view some of Eidos's most recent work. Eidos has also bragged that it is giving away swag and selling a lot of collectables found nowhere else. Do you want a special limited edition poster? Do you want a t-shirt or hoodie? Do you want to go and get your game signed or your merchandise autographed?

I know not many users are from Quebec but I thought any user in Quebec should know. The event is on till 4pm and is open to everyone. To see pictures of some of the merchandise as well as how the event is going visit Eido's Photo page here!

Is this a good idea? Oppening your studio up for everyone to come in and see and purchase merch should other developers and publishers do this? Which developer/publisher would you most like to attend an open house at?

Oh wow thanks...

We are lucky here in Montreal. There are many studios et some of them allow visits sometimes. I had the chance to visit Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Eidos is quite new and I will try to get there before it closes. Montreal is becoming a game developing city. The University of Montreal and Le Centre NAD offer a university degree in game design and there are a lot of smaller companies that do games like Beenox and Gameloft to name a few. If you want to learn game design Montreal is a good place... you'll have to learn french though haha!

Unfortunately I will not be able to go but I have a few friends that will so I'll ask them how it was.

Yah I'm jealous of Montreal, I live an hour out of Vancouver and to be honest I liked when it was the gaming hub. I'm also still trying to a launch a video game site and have been told by Eidos and UbiSoft that if they co-operate with me and give me stories they want me to come personally and visit their Montreal studios. I would love to and really think the idea is an amazing one, but I am very low income and the website won't generate much money. This means for me to go to Montreal it would be a very big and costly deal. I couldn't stay long and it would be very difficult to get visits in with all of the major publishers and developers.

I would have prefered if Vancouver had remained the gaming capital of the world. Since Montreal started growing its game development a ton of our studios have closed and major publishers are shifting operations to Montreal and away from Vancouver.

P.S- BC has the best Video game programs in Canada. VanArts , VFS among others then if you count the fact that DigiPen is only 3 hours away from the border a ton of developers attend their school for training and it was founded in part by Nintendo. The best gaming school in North America.

Don't know what happened but I lost everything when I pressed submit... I don't feel like rewriting it all.

None of my friends went to the event so I got no news.

I feel sorry for you now that I read about that, I know that the government of Quebec offers a lot of subventions to gaming and 3D graphic companies and since Montreal is the larger city and the one that speaks english most of them are located in here. We will have a conference from a Sony company that specialises in 3D effects for movies and they're from Vancouver but a rumor says that they might migrate here in Montreal.

You should definetly pursue your website idea. Even if you're not big right away, it will just grow in popularity and with time you'll get money from it. Like my father always says, people who win the lotery are those who buys tickets.

I wish I can visit some kind of developer's open house, but there's nothing here in NJ!