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According to reporting by Bloomberg, Embracer Group is laying off 97 of the staff at Eidos Montreal and has canceled an unannounced title in the Deus Ex series. This is part of an ongoing series of job losses as Embracer contracts after a period of rapid expansion. The Embracer Group acquired Eidos Montreal as part of a deal with Square Enix in 2022, which saw the latter company divest from its North American studios. This deal also included Square Enix Montreal and Crystal Dynamics, as well as a selection of properties…

‘Queen Rock Montreal’ is coming to cinemas, courtesy of IMAX and Pathé Live in partnership with Mercury Studios and Queen Films beginning 18th January 2024. Exclusively in IMAX, this exhilarating live concert from 1981 is a window into Queen in their most unalloyed form, giving audiences a larger-than-life, front-row immersive experience. The film was digitally re-mastered for the first time into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience, including 12-channel surround sound, crystal-clear images, and …

Cedric Demers has never believed in a single best TV for most people.As the founder and president of Montreal-based RTings, Demers has spent the last decade devising a more granular type of product review, in which practically every attribute from viewing angles to gaming responsiveness gets graded on a 100-point scale. Viewers can then compare those scores for every product to find the best fit.“There might be one for you, but overall the best, it doesn’t exist,” Demers says. “It really depends on what you’re going to…

Osheaga has secured its headliners for its 2024 festival. On Wednesday, the music and arts festival announced that Noah Kahan and SZA will be headlining the festival alongside Green Day, whose appearance was previously announced. This year’s festival is set to be held between Aug. 2 and 4, 2024 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal. Kahan will headline Friday, Green Day will close the festival Saturday, while SZA will perform on Sunday. The announcement comes just days before Kahan is set to make his Saturday…

Two of rap's biggest superstars took the stage during Drake's show at the Bell Centre  During Drake’s It’s All a Blur tour stop at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada, J. Cole joined him onstage in place of 21 Savage on Friday. The Off-Season rapper was seen walking through the crowd, in the same fashion Drake opened his tour last week in Chicago, while wearing a shirt that read, “The game has changed, you have been warned.” While 21 Savage, who made his entrance Chicago’s…

A study by Columbia Engineering and the University of Exeter shows that the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty ratified in 1989 to reduce atmospheric concentrations of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), is delaying the first ice-free Arctic summer by up to 15 years. While ODSs are less common in the atmosphere, they are considerably more potent at warming the planet than carbon dioxide, and the study’s findings demonstrate the Montreal Protocol’s significant climate benefits, underscoring the importance of continued…

On March 29, 1975, the family of Sharron Prior waited for the reliable 16-year-old to come home for dinner in Montreal's Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood. She never did. Four days later, Prior's body turned up in an abandoned lot in Longueuil, on Montreal's South Shore. She'd been savagely sexually assaulted and murdered.For nearly half a century, her killer's identity eluded police detectives and Sharron's family.But now, new DNA testing tools have proved conclusively it was Franklin Romine — an American who'd been…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books Make Kale! Caesar!, Ode to Ops pizza al taglio and Dante chicken thighs from Salad Pizza Wine by the team at Elena Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Published May 26, 2023  •  Last updated 35 minutes ago  •  13 minute read Clockwise from top: Dante chicken thighs, Ode to Ops al taglio pizza and Kale! Caesar! from the new book by the team at Montreal restaurant Elena, Salad Pizza…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books Chef Janice Tiefenbach, writer Stephanie Mercier Voyer and sommelier Ryan Gray on creating a different kind of restaurant Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Published May 26, 2023  •  Last updated 13 minutes ago  •  6 minute read The authors of Salad Pizza Wine, from left to right: Marley Sniatowsky, Stephanie Mercier Voyer, Janice Tiefenbach and Ryan Gray. Photo by Dominique…

A decades-old global environmental pact has averted huge amounts of sea ice loss in the Arctic, new research shows.Banning ozone-depleting gases under the historic 1987 Montreal Protocol has delayed the first, feared ice-free Arctic summer by as much as 15 years, the study found – once again demonstrating that global treaties can work to huge effect."While stopping was not the primary goal of the Montreal Protocol, it has been a fantastic by-product," says University of Exeter climate scientist Mark England, who…