{"id":8022,"date":"2026-03-05T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:10:20","slug":"la-guilde-and-the-meie-announce-a-2-1-million-public-private-investment-to-develop-the-video-game-industry-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/la-guilde-and-the-meie-announce-a-2-1-million-public-private-investment-to-develop-the-video-game-industry-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"La Guilde and the MEIE announce a $2.1 million public-private investment to develop the video game industry in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":{"page_rows":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_boxes","row_title":"Video games in Quebec: $2.1 million to support the industry","row_texts":[{"type":"texte","text_content":"Montreal, March 5, 2026 \u2014 La Guilde du jeu vid\u00e9o du Qu\u00e9bec is proud to announce that it has received $1,050,000 in financial assistance from the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Energy (MEIE) over three years to implement its 2026-2029 Strategic Plan. The plan aims to strengthen the competitiveness and innovation of a Quebec center of excellence.\r\n\r\nThis public funding will be matched by an equivalent amount of private funding, bringing the total investment dedicated to propelling Quebec's video game industry to over $2.1 million. The priority areas for development are: financing, productivity and competitiveness, research and data sharing, and promoting and marketing our games and Quebec talent around the world.\r\n\r\n\u00ab\u2009L\u2019industrie du jeu vid\u00e9o occupe une place importante dans notre \u00e9conomie. En appuyant le\r\nPlan strat\u00e9gique de La Guilde, nous soutenons un secteur qui innove, qui cr\u00e9e des emplois de\r\nqualit\u00e9 et qui contribue au rayonnement du Qu\u00e9bec. Cet investissement donnera au secteur de\r\nnouveaux moyens pour renforcer sa comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 et poursuivre sa croissance.\u2009\u00bb\r\n<em>Jean Boulet, ministre de l\u2019\u00c9conomie, de l\u2019Innovation et de l\u2019\u00c9nergie, ministre du Travail, ministre<\/em>\r\n<em>responsable de la Strat\u00e9gie maritime et ministre responsable de la r\u00e9gion de la Mauricie<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00ab\u2009Depuis plus de trente ans, le Qu\u00e9bec s\u2019impose comme un lieu d\u2019excellence en cr\u00e9ation de\r\njeux vid\u00e9o. Cet investissement appuie une industrie qui innove, qui collabore et qui attire des\r\ntalents d\u2019exception. Les initiatives structurantes port\u00e9es par La Guilde renforceront encore\r\ndavantage notre comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 et permettront \u00e0 nos studios de se distinguer dans un march\u00e9\r\nmondial en pleine transformation.\u2009\u00bb\r\n<em>C\u00e9line Haytayan, d\u00e9put\u00e9e de Laval-des-Rapides et adjointe parlementaire du ministre de<\/em>\r\n<em>l\u2019\u00c9conomie, de l\u2019Innovation et de l\u2019\u00c9nergie (volets intelligence artificielle, quantique, sciences et<\/em>\r\n<em>innovation)<\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Acquisition of new talent\r\n<\/strong>As part of the rollout of its Strategic Plan, La Guilde announces its first appointments.\r\n\r\n<strong>Julien Coll<\/strong>, a strategic leader in innovation and former co-director of the CDRIN, has been appointed head of the Research and Data pillar. His mandate will be to develop a coordinated approach to R&amp;D, facilitate access to research funding mechanisms, and establish a structure for sharing and promoting sectoral data.\r\n\r\n<strong>Julien Bouvrais<\/strong>, a renowned expert with over 25 years of experience working at Quebec studios Ubisoft and Eidos-Montr\u00e9al, has been appointed Head of Productivity and Competitiveness. In this role, he will strengthen the business environment for Quebec studios by pooling expertise, developing mentoring programs, and improving access to best practices in production management and organizational development.\r\n\r\n\u00ab Le soutien du Minist\u00e8re \u00e0 l\u2019industrie et ces premi\u00e8res nominations phares marquent le coup\r\nd\u2019envoi de notre Plan strat\u00e9gique qui b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiera \u00e0 toutes nos entreprises membres. Nous\r\nremercions le gouvernement pour sa confiance dans l\u2019\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me du jeu qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois qui\r\nposs\u00e8de tous les atouts pour faire face \u00e0 une comp\u00e9tition mondiale de plus en plus f\u00e9roce. \u00bb\r\nsays Jean Jacques Hermans, Executive Director, La Guilde du jeu vid\u00e9o du Qu\u00e9bec.","text_image":null,"plateforme":"","id_youtube":"","id_vimeo":"","taille_paragraphe":"normale","text_action":null,"style_du_lien":"btn"}],"row_id":"","background_color":"blue","mode":"normal","row_padding_bottom":true,"encadre":false,"encadre_background_color":"white","row_couleur_texte":"noir"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8037,"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laguilde.quebec\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}