Tencent’s TiMi Studio Group, known for developing some of the biggest mobile games in the world, is opening an office in Montreal. However, this studio will be working on an original AAA open-world game for consoles and PC. The Montreal team is TiMi’s third in North America, joining the teams in Los Angeles and Seattle.
TiMi makes some of the most popular games on the planet, including Call of Duty: Mobile and Honor of Kings, and it’s also behind the upcoming Pokemon Unite.
The new Montreal studio will focus on the “creation and development of an original IP” that is a AAA open-world service-focused game for multiple platforms. A press release says the outfit will “set its own creativity destiny” and that it plans to grow to become a “sizable” studio by the end of 2021.
Vincent Gao, the head of global game developer for TiMi Studio Group, said Montreal is a good place to set up shop because it “offers access to a diverse, trend-setting workforce capable of creating AAA open-world experiences at a massive scale.”
“Our focus is to start with console and PC platforms with the highest quality, and then let gamers all over the world play how they want regardl…