Video game publisher and developer Ubisoft has acquired Montreal-based visual effects house Hybride Technologies in a deal that appears to be the first of its kind.

The Gazette’s Janet Bagnall was nominated for the Montreal YWCA’s women of distinction award in the category of communications.

Does the acquisition signal Ubisoft’s growing film ambitions?

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MONTREAL - Video game maker Ubisoft is postioning itself to offer more games that have cinema-quality special effects and movie-like experiences with the acquisition of Quebec-based Hybride Technologies.

MONTREAL - Video game maker Ubisoft is positioning itself to offer more games that have cinema-quality special effects and movie-like experiences with the acquisition of Quebec-based Hybride Technologies.

MONTREAL - Video game maker Ubisoft is postioning itself to offer more games that have cinema-quality special effects and movie-like experiences with the acquistion of Quebec-based Hybride Technologies.

French publisher adds movie effects house to its game development efforts. July 8, 2008 - Publisher Ubisoft has acquired the Montreal-based visual effects studio, Hybride Technologies.

Ubisoft said Tuesday it has bought Canadian special effects studio Hybride Technologies in a move that will wed the French firm’s hot videogames with Hollywood films.

MONTREAL - French software company Ubisoft, best known for its computer games, is acquiring Hybride Technologies - an 80-employee Quebec-based company that develops tools for creating special-effects in movies, television and advertising.

French game maker looking to Quebec’s Hybride Technologies to help buoy 3-D animation studio

Ubisoft has announced that is has acquired Montreal-based Hybride Technologies, the visual effects studio which most notably was behind recent film projects like 300, Sin City, and Spy Kids. Ubisoft says it will work with Hybride “to share technology and to develop tools in order to optimize the creation of both video games and visual effects and to offer gamers visual experiences that rival …

– Today Ubisoft announced the acquisition of Hybride Technologies, a Montreal-based studio renowned for its expertise in the creation of visual effects for cinema, television and advertising.

Veteran CBC Montreal broadcaster Anne Lagacé Dowson doesn’t see herself as the New Democratic Party’s sacrificial lamb in the coming federal by-election in Westmount.

The Cleveland Indians should feel as if a large weight has been lifted off their shoulders. CC Sabathia’s trade to the Milwaukee Brewers for a few prospects should not be viewed with contempt or malice, rather it should be embraced.

The Cleveland Indians should feel as if a large weight has been lifted off their shoulders. CC Sabathia’s trade to the Milwaukee Brewers for a few prospects should not be viewed with contempt or malice, rather it should be embraced.