Silicon Knights Joins Niagara Region Incubator Scheme

[Andy Chalk]

Silicon Knights Joins Niagara Region Incubator Scheme

Canadian developer Silicon Knights [http://siliconknights.com/]has announced it is contributing to a new-media "incubator scheme" in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada.

A report in Interactive Ontario [http://www.developmag.com/news/29038/Silicon-Knights-backs-Niagara-incubator].

"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 Unreal Engine 3 [http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/t/toohuman/], which Dyack claimed led to numerous delays in the game's development.


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[alexhayter86]

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.

 

[Andy Chalk]

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.)