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Alberta Feeling Left out Of Canada?s Advances

By pete_gallagher

While Canada is now the world's third-largest home to videogame development, trailing only the U.S. and Japan, one Canadian province is feeling a bit ostracized.

Edmonton, Alberta is home to BioWare, but despite the successful developer's presence, 'the industry has basically stalled' in the region, states the Edmonton Journal, as 'major video-game firms have opted to expand elsewhere, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lavish studios and sprawling campuses.'

Canada's game creators are increasingly concentrated in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto, areas 'where growth has been fuelled by handsome tax credits and other forms of public support.'

Even BioWare seems more focused now on increasing staff at its Austin, Texas and Montreal locations.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).