PIMBY – Please in my backyard! – the problem of Canadian Game Production

The Escapist has an interesting article (they always do, but this one caught my eye, again because of recent conversations with younger relatives and acquaintances). Dana Massey points out that there is some absolutely amazing work being done here in Canada with EA in Vancouver and Ubisoft in Montreal (though she misses Bioware here in Edmonton).

Without getting into the whole CanCon debate, it would be good that if in some way these production houses could show their colors. I know that their locations are stated in the credits, and some of the hard core game magazines comment on location as well, but the article makes a good point – that if you want people to even know about where these games are coming from in the first place, it should be made more evident for the “joe user” (If only there were new Peanuts cartoons, we might have Snoopy as Joe User).