Ubisoft Montreal
The establishment of Ubisoft Montreal is considered to have significant impact on Montreal. The Mile End area over the next several years transformed from a low-rent area to a commercial hub with new businesses, stores, restaurants and other attractions for the young workforce. For the city overall, Ubisoft Montreal was the first major video game studio and helped to establish its position as a creative city. Several other publishers, including Electronic Arts, Eidos Interactive, THQ and Warner Bros., established studios in Montreal following Ubisoft, with the Quebec and federal governments continuity to offer subsidiary programs to support high-tech job creation. In exchange, the studio has spent up to in the province of Quebec, and with their parent publisher, helped to open Ubisoft Quebec in Quebec City in 2005 and Ubisoft Saguenay in Saguenay in 2018 to help support Ubisoft Montreal's efforts, using similar tax incentives from the providence to help found these.
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Ubisoft Milan was founded in 1998 in Milan, Italy. The studio's initial focus was to develop handheld titles, and it brought "Rayman" to Game Boy Color and "" to Game Boy Advance. The Milan studio also served as a support studio for Ubisoft, assisting other studios on many games, such as "Beyond Good & Evil", "", "", "", "", and "Assassin's Creed Rogue", and is a core developer of the "Just Dance" series. The studio's focus then shifted to develop games that require motion control, including "MotionSports" and "" with the Barcelona studio and the Paris studio, respectively. The studio was the lead developer of the company's first Nintendo Switch exclusive game, "Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle", together with Ubisoft Paris, and is working on downloadable content for that game.