The video-game development industry in Vancouver is alive and well, even if it looks a little different than it did a few years ago. There are fewer studios working on games with multimillion-dollar budgets, but the likes of East Side, Hothead, Klei, Roadhouse, and Slick are picking up some of the slack.

It’s not as if the bigger players have left the city altogether. EA Canada still employs hundreds in Burnaby working on some of the industry’s most profitable franchises. In November, Capcom Vancouver’s Dead Rising 3 will be released with the new Xbox One console. Namco Bandai has opened a studio in the Centre for Digital Media. And Black Tusk, a Microsoft studio, should be announcing its big-budget, top-secret title next year.

So here’s to the games being made in Vancouver, and the people who make them.

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