miHoYo is all set to open a new Montreal Office, as their team is planning to create a new AAA shooter game.
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miHoYo is a Chinese studio and game organization that is mainly situated in Shanghai, China. Back in 2012, the organization was formed by three understudies, and right now the company has in excess of 2400 workers. Several games like Genshin Impact, Honkai Academy 2, Honkai Impact 3, and Honkai Star Rail have been created by miHoYo.
miHoYo's Genshin Impact was released last year, and this open-world title quite possibly became the most famous game out there. The game throughout the long term has created a huge impact on players and critics by having more than 40 million players to date.
miHoYo's most recent title is Honkai Star Rail, which is basically a turn-based RPG that is right now in closed beta test. However, now it has been revealed that miHoYo is all set to open a new Montreal Office to create a new AAA shooter game.
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miHoYo's New AAA Shooter Game
Daniel Ahmad, a Senior Analyst at Niko Partners who oftentimes gives convincing details about the computer games industry breaks the news to the general public. The Twiter user revealed that miHoYo had made the declaration about the new Montreal Office to create a new AAA shooter game on its official LinkedIn page.
This denotes that the company is all set to set up its first office in North America. It has been revealed that the new Montreal office is an R&D studio and will enlist more than 100+ representatives for more than 2 years.
The team is looking out for a longer duration and it has been stated that the organization is planning for the next 2 years of development on open-world AAA shooter games. Daniel's Twitter post read, "The studio will hire 100+ employees over 2 years + work on a new AAA open-world action-adventure game with shooter mechanics and miHoYo has 3,500+ employees"
The upcoming miHoYo's open-world game that has been referenced in the declaration has been being developed for a long while presently and the game was primarily revealed by Nvidia during GTC 2019 under the codename "Project X".
MiHoYo has expanded rapidly from 3 people in 2014 to 1,500 in 2020 and now 3,500 in 2021.
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) November 15, 2021
In addition to the Shanghai HQ, the studio has opened studios and offices in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the US and now Canada.
It has hired numerous global talents in the past year.
As per Daniel, "The game will stay true to MiHoYo's ACGN + Otaku focus while entering a new genre". So it will be interesting to see what miHoYo has in store for its fans with its new AAA title which is an action-adventure game, having shooting mechanics, "within a living, breathing paranormal world."
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