The Danish video game company IO Interactive, owner of the Hitman and Kane & Lynch sagas, will create 150 more jobs at its headquarters in the center of Barcelona. The company has about thirty employees in the Catalan capital and is in full boom. Among its most immediate future plans is the preparation of the first James Bond video game in the last fifteen years.
The announcement was made by the head of the Barcelona studio, Eduard López, after meeting with the Minister of Business and Labor, Roger Torrent, this Wednesday. Precisely, the growth project has had the support of the agency for the competitiveness of the Government of the Generalitat, Acció.
The profiles that the Danish company will seek will cover the entire video game development chain, from programmers to artists and animators, but also game and sound designers; who will collaborate with the studios in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Malmö (Sweden), reports ACN.
The Catalan capital has been chosen to make this investment because "it meets all the right conditions to attract talent." "Here there are professionals trained in the field of video games, it is an attractive location to attract workers from all over the world and, in addition, Catalan culture fits very well with the Danish way of working," he stressed. López also detailed that the company wants to publish games by local independent developers to grow the Catalan ecosystem.
Until now, from Barcelona IO Interactive has created big-budget video games, called AAA, which are the highest category video games in the industry for consoles and computers that have great graphic quality.
In turn, the Minister of Business and Labor celebrated the news and remarked that "Barcelona is already a European benchmark for the video game sector" and assured that the Government wants to continue reinforcing this positioning of the city.
According to data from Acció, Catalonia is the first region in the European Union in attracting foreign investment in the video game sector in the last five years.
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