Tencent has closed TiMi Montreal, ending nearly five years of AAA game development experiments without a game being released.
Tencent Shuts Down TiMi Montreal: The AAA Open-World Ambition That Never Launched Tencent has officially shuttered TiMi Montreal , a key North American branch of its massive TiMi Studio Group. The decision, made last week, comes as a surprise to many, given that the studio was established in 2021 with significant fanfare but had yet to release or even officially announce a single title during its three-year run. Unfulfilled AAA Ambitions When TiMi Montreal opened its doors in Canada, it was tasked with a high-stakes mission: developing a massive, AAA open-world, cross-platform game . Despite the grand vision, the project remained shrouded in mystery. With TiMi’s headquarters in China managing three North American satellites Los Angeles, Seattle, and Montreal the closure of the Montreal office suggests that Tencent is scaling back its ambitious investment in Western-based game development. A Talent Magnet Loses Its Pull In its early stages, TiMi Montreal successfully recruited to...