BioWare Named One of Canada's Top 100 Employers
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BioWare Corp. Named One of Canada's Top 100 Employers
Leading Video Game Developer Provides One of the Best Places for Industry Talent
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (October 9, 2007) BioWare Corp. is honored to announce that it has been recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers.
"This award is a tremendous honor for BioWare. One of our studio's core values is Quality in our Workplace: creating a great place to work for our passionate, hardworking, creative staff," said Ray Muzyka, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BioWare Corp. "We're dedicated to ensuring that BioWare remains an employer of choice for our current employees at BioWare Edmonton, BioWare Austin, and our new employees who come from all over the world!"
With a series of highly anticipated projects in the works, the future looks bright for BioWare. The epic space adventure Mass Effect™, an Xbox™ 360 exclusive title to be published by Microsoft® and released November 20, 2007, has already garnered the 2007 E3 Game Critics Awards for "Best Console Game" and "Best Role-Playing Game." With studios in both Edmonton, Alberta, and Austin, Texas, BioWare is poised for success with the dark heroic fantasy, Dragon Age, as well as a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) and a new title for the Nintendo DS™ based on the popular Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
"The key to our success has always been our employees, and we've worked hard to create an amazing environment to attract and support the industry's best talent," said Greg Zeschuk, co-founder and President of BioWare Corp. "By recognizing that our most valuable assets are the people who make it all happen, we will continue to take the time to nurture top talent, and let that talent work its magic."
Data for Canada's Top 100 Employers award is compiled and analyzed by Mediacorp Canada Inc. who received over 55,000 applicants from across Canada. The Top 100 Employers list is based on outstanding Human Resource practices, exceptional growing success and contribution to the community.
About BioWare|Pandemic Studios
BioWare/Pandemic Studios was formed through the fusion of two industry powerhouses and private equity firm, Elevation Partners. A leader in the action/adventure category, Pandemic joined forces in 2005 with BioWare, a company known for its role-playing games rich in story and character. Co-equal and complementary, the newly partnered video game studios are working both in tandem and separately to develop new, original titles as well as continuing to leverage the licensed franchises and owned-IP each is known for including: Mercenaries™, Destroy All Humans!™, Full Spectrum Warrior™, and Star Wars® Battlefront™ II from Pandemic and Mass Effect™, Dragon Age™, Baldur's Gate™, Neverwinter Nights™, Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™ and Jade Empire™ from BioWare. Focused on next-generation platforms to create bold new concepts in entertainment, BioWare/Pandemic's studios are located in Los Angeles, California; Brisbane, Australia; Austin, Texas; and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. For more information, please visit bioware.pandemicstudios.com.
