Silicone Knightz to go self publishing

[Cerveza mas fina]

 

Silicon Knights, the Canadian developer of Too Human, has received CAD ฃ3 million in government funding and plans to use the money to become self publishing.

It also plans to hire 80 new team members, upgrade company tech like new 3D tools, and support new, unannounced, projects.

"This is going to benefit Silicon Knights in ways that are profound and long-lasting," said Denis Dyack, company president.

"With Ontario government support, we are better-positioned to further develop the eighth art of video games. This will enhance our competitive edge within the highly-competitive video game market, help us become a self-sustainable, self-publishing entity, and allow us to enter lucrative global markets."

Silicon Knights is currently developing a 3D game development engine with "new advanced camera systems, improved audio and video and better computing technology."

Dyack also spoke about the small number of developers now working on big, AAA titles, but was reticent about Silicon Knight's projects beyond X-Men Destiny for Activision.

"In our industry, you have to be very careful never to announce anything until the right time. We can only say it's a next generation title and a high production value game. That's all we can say."

The funding was announced by yesterday by Sandra Pupatello, Minister of Economic Development and Trade in Ontario.

""Our province continues to be an innovative leader in the high-growth, global video game market," Pupatello said.

"Ontario's support to Silicon Knights will expand production of its unique, next-generation 3D Game Engine, target new markets, and create highly-skilled jobs for St. Catharines and the surrounding community."

Silicon Knights currently employs around 97 people, and in April of last year was awarded a CAD $4 million grant by Ontario's Community Adjustment Fund. That grant allowed the company to add around 65 new employees to its line up.

[demi]

Dyack

[maxy]

amazing

[The Sceneman]

for some reason the incorrect spelling in the thread title is really fucking me off. Maybe its because Silicon Knights is spelled correctly 1000 times in the article.

[Cerveza mas fina]

My bad

[Great Rumbler]

Silicon Knights, the Canadian developer of Too Human, has received CAD ฃ3 million in government funding and plans to use the money to become self publishing.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Yeah what are they gonna buy, water dispensers?

[Brehvolution]

Dyack sucking off the taxpayers dick. 

[Madrun Badrun]

Wonderful News!  I haven't played and N64 game since Too Human came out.

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I'm just joking.  I never played Too Human.

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[Trent Dole]

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[BlueTsunami]

Now Canada can officially add Dennis Dyack to their staples, along with bagged milk and poutine. Its like bizarro America.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

so that's like five million dollars in real money.

That isn't actually so much anymore when it comes to HD games.  That could generously fund some PSN/XBLA/iStore stuff, but how are they stretching that money into those rather ambitious plans they've got there?

[Diunx]

Maybe he hired some slave programers from asia?

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

we are better-positioned to further develop the eighth art of video games.

Someone fucking explain that to me.  The eighth art?  What the hell is he talking about?  I never got the memo that we were assigning arbitrary numbers to stupid shit now.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

we are better-positioned to further develop the eighth art of video games.

Someone fucking explain that to me.  The eighth art?  What the hell is he talking about?  I never got the memo that we were assigning arbitrary numbers to stupid shit now.

The Nine Arts and Nine Muses

1. painting (including drawing and photography) — Polymnia
2. sculpture (including installation) — Clio
3. theatre — Melpomene
4. architecture — Urania
5. music — Euterpe
6. dance — Terpsichore
7. literature — Calliope
8. cinema ("moving images" in whatever technological format,
so also TV, videogames, etc.) — Erato
9. comics (now universally called the ninth art, the only really fixed
"number term" nowadays, and the most recent) — Thalia

I've heard comics called "the ninth art" quite a bit, but never heard games called the eighth art before.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Roivas

Yeah what are they gonna buy, water dispensers?

Twinkies, Ho Hos, Sno Balls, etc.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

we are better-positioned to further develop the eighth art of video games.

Someone fucking explain that to me.  The eighth art?  What the hell is he talking about?  I never got the memo that we were assigning arbitrary numbers to stupid shit now.

The Nine Arts and Nine Muses

1. painting (including drawing and photography) — Polymnia
2. sculpture (including installation) — Clio
3. theatre — Melpomene
4. architecture — Urania
5. music — Euterpe
6. dance — Terpsichore
7. literature — Calliope
8. cinema ("moving images" in whatever technological format,
so also TV, videogames, etc.) — Erato
9. comics (now universally called the ninth art, the only really fixed
"number term" nowadays, and the most recent) — Thalia

I've heard comics called "the ninth art" quite a bit, but never heard games called the eighth art before.

My education has failed yet again. 

Thanks btw

[pilonv1]

$3million grant and they're going to hire 80 people?

[The Sceneman]

yes, 80 people for two weeks.

[Phoenix Dark]

Sounds like Wii money

[Bildi]

3 million Canadian pounds

[Sho Nuff]

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Roivas is savior spelled backwards

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Isn't that like scam? Taking gov. money and running away with it?

Isn't that what Poland does to the EU?

[recursivelyenumerable]

Viral marketing campaigns on Twitter are the tenth art, BTW.
Prole and I decided

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Difference is we have to return it if we don't use it.

Well, this grant money is essentially a subsidy to Hostess Snack Cakes so it is basically the same concept.