TiMi Montreal is the latest triple-A game studio from Tencent's Timi Studio Group.

Tencent’s TiMi opens third North American triple-A game studio in Montreal

TiMi Studio Group has opened a new triple-A game studio in Montreal. It’s the third such dev outpost that the Tencent-owned entity has started in North America.

TiMi Montréal joins TiMi Seattle and TiMi Los Angeles, which are divisions of the Shenzhen, China-based TiMi, the mobile game studio behind titles such as Call of Duty: Mobile, Honor of Kings, and the upcoming Pokémon Unite. TiMi also revealed that game veteran Sinjin Bain is the executive producer at TiMi Los Angeles.

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