Outsourcing
- Take a Drive on the Wild Side - Shanghai, October 9, 2009 – Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: DWA) Madagascar Kartz™ video... Read more.
Shanghai, August 20, 2009 - Virtuos announced today that its Chengdu development center has reached the 100-employee milestone after 18 months in operation. Recent additions to the team include two... Read more.
Shanghai, August 4, 2009 –Industrial, Light & Magic (ILM) recently gave a presentation at the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference covering their breakthrough techniques in creating visual effects for the blockbuster movie... Read more.
Shanghai, March 18th, 2009. Virtuos, one of the world's largest video-game production service providers, announced today that it has acquired Besides Sound Production sound studio (BSP). Based in Shanghai,... Read more.
Shanghai, Jan. 13th, 2009 –gamesindustry.biz published an in-depth interview of Virtuos' CEO Gilles Langourieux. In the interview titled "A Man of Virtuos", Gilles Langourieux discloses that Virtuos has now topped... Read more.
Shanghai, December 18, 2008 – Leading game industry website www.gamasutra.com has ranked the continued rise of outsourcing its number one trend in game development in 2008, among a list of... Read more.
Shanghai, November 15, 2008 – Virtuos is proud to announce its strongest Christmas lineup ever, as it has contributed to several major titles released for the 2008 holiday season. Artists... Read more.
Shanghai, October 21, 2008 - Today saw the release on PSP of the latest installment in the multi-million selling Crash Bandicoot franchise. Crash: Mind Over Mutant PSP was developed... Read more.
Shanghai, June 11th, 2008 – One month after launch, Speed Racer has reached the No. 3 rank for driving games on Nintendo DS, achieving an average critics' score of 76%,... Read more.
Shanghai, April 2, 2008 - Virtuos announced today that its team of game specialists has reached the bar of 300 people in its Shanghai and Chengdu development centers. Created in late... Read more.
Game development outsourcing leader Virtuos opens new center in Chengdu. Shanghai, January 14th, 2008. Virtuos, one of the world's largest game development outsourcing providers, announced today that it has opened... Read more.
Leipzig, Germany – September 4, 2007 – The Organizers of the GC Asia Conference (GCAC, 6-7 September) today announced an additional keynote to the high-quality conference line-up. In his keynote... Read more.
Shanghai, August 15, 2007. Gilles Langourieux, CEO of Virtuos, one of the largest game outsourcing companies in the world will present at GDC China on August 28. In a session... Read more.
Los Angeles, March 26, 2007 - Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has shipped today on PC and will soon be followed by a highly expected Xbox360 version. Published... Read more.
Paris, March 22, 2007 – The PSP version of Asphalt: Urban GT™ 2 has shipped in Europe today. After mobile phones and the Nintendo DS platform, this new opus marks... Read more.
Shanghai, October 30. Mrs Xu Meihua, Secretary-General of Shanghai Municipal Technology Committee, Mr Lu Jiye, Vice Mayor of Shanghai Changning District, and other leaders from Shanghai Municipal Government and Changning... Read more.
Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine editorial director Simon Carless visited Virtuos' new development center in Shanghai during Chinajoy 2006. He published a long report titled "Inside China's Game Outsourcing... Read more.
French Small and Medium size Companies Minister Renaud Dutreil visited Virtuos on October 25, during his official visit to China. Leading a delegation of French officials, Renaud Dutreil observed... Read more.
Virtuos has partnered with French game developer Gamesource to open an office in Europe. Under the terms of the agreement, Gamesource provides facilities and technical expertise to Virtuos which is... Read more.
E3 2005 LA was an exceptional occasion for Virtuos to showcase some of its latest work. 2 major games on which Virtuos collaborated extensively were on display at the... Read more.
Recent news indicate that the largest Chinese gaming companies have the appetite and the cash to acquire studios from neighbouring countries. The common point ? ...Acquire know-how and content. On... Read more.
The New York Times explains how large Indian companies like Infosys and Wipro are investing into China's talent pool. It mentions that "China has a worker base equal to India's... Read more.
China has become Japan's largest overseas software outsourcing base. In 2003, Beijing had US$150 million worth of software outsourcing contracts. The value of software outsourced from Japan is increasing at... Read more.
In an interview with Digital Media Net, Alex Seropian, ex Bungie Co-founder who recently founded Wideload, explains how his new model relies on outsourcing to reduce game development costs. Extracts... Read more.