How subsidies helped Montreal become "the Hollywood of video games"

French videogame giant Ubisoft's Montreal office is seen on July 18, 2020 in Quebec, Canada. French videogame giant Ubisoft's Montreal office is seen on July 18, 2020 in Quebec, Canada. Genshin Impact is an award-winning role-playing game created by Chinese video game developer miHoYo. A year after its September 2020 release, the game managed to amass a total revenue of more than $2 billion. That kind of revenue makes Genshin Impact one of the most profitable video game releases ever and easily miHoYo's most successful project in the company's nine-year history. After seeing such success, it was only natural for the company to expand.