{"id":18082,"date":"2021-10-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/12\/virtuos-bolsters-european-presence-with-its-new-lyon-studio\/"},"modified":"2021-10-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:00:00","slug":"virtuos-bolsters-european-presence-with-its-new-lyon-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/12\/virtuos-bolsters-european-presence-with-its-new-lyon-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtuos Bolsters European Presence with its New Lyon Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 12 October 2021 &#8211; Virtuos, a leading global video&#13;<br \/>\ngame development company, today announced the establishment of a new studio in&#13;<br \/>\nLyon, France&#8217;s second major video game development center after Paris. This&#13;<br \/>\nexpansion is a key part of Virtuos&#8217; buy-and-build strategy to increase its&#13;<br \/>\nglobal footprint, as well as its proximity to clients.<\/p>\n<p>The studio&#8217;s founding team of 12 experienced&#13;<br \/>\nprogrammers will be led by Aur\u00e9lien Kerbeci and Domenico Albani.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aur\u00e9lien Kerbeci, Studio Director, will&#13;<br \/>\noversee Virtuos Lyon&#8217;s studio operations. Aur\u00e9lien has over 17 years of video&#13;<br \/>\ngame industry experience, including a team lead role at ELB Games and his&#13;<br \/>\nsubsequent founding of Agharta Studio, where he developed original game&#13;<br \/>\nfranchises for mobile, desktop, and PlayStation platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Domenico Albani, Technical Director, will lead&#13;<br \/>\nthe studio&#8217;s game development team. Domenico, who was the former co-founder of&#13;<br \/>\nOSome Studio, brings with him close to 20 years of experience across gameplay,&#13;<br \/>\ntech programming and engineering, as well as software architecture at leading&#13;<br \/>\nvideo game development companies such as Eden Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to welcome Aur\u00e9lien, Domenico,&#13;<br \/>\nand the rest of the talented founding team at Lyon to the Virtuos family. Not&#13;<br \/>\nonly is the team culturally aligned with Virtuos, they are also equipped with&#13;<br \/>\nthe deep engineering and domain expertise that will play a critical role in&#13;<br \/>\nensuring our continued success. With this expansion, we are well-positioned to&#13;<br \/>\naccelerate our growth to meet and exceed the demands from our clients,&#8221; said&#13;<br \/>\nChristophe Gandon, Head of Game Division at Virtuos.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we continue to collectively chart new&#13;<br \/>\nterritories in the gaming sector, Virtuos&#8217; keen focus on upskilling its&#13;<br \/>\nworkforce ensures that employees remain at the forefront of new techniques and&#13;<br \/>\ntechnologies. We are invested in continuous talent development, and in line&#13;<br \/>\nwith our growth trajectory, are always on the lookout for people to join our&#13;<br \/>\nteams,&#8221; said Aur\u00e9lien Kerbeci, Studio Director, Virtuos Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honour to join a company as esteemed&#13;<br \/>\nas Virtuos, and together, we look forward to pushing the envelope in our&#13;<br \/>\nindustry, where cutting-edge technology is concerned. We&#8217;re excited to share&#13;<br \/>\nour knowledge with the wider team and to closely collaborate with our&#13;<br \/>\ncolleagues in Paris and across the world to deliver the best gaming solutions&#13;<br \/>\nto our partners,&#8221; said Domenico Albani, Technical Director, Virtuos Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Virtuos&#8217; opening of its Lyon studio comes on&#13;<br \/>\nthe back of a USD150 million investment from Baring Private Equity Asia in&#13;<br \/>\nSeptember to finance its buy-and-build strategy in different geographies and&#13;<br \/>\nfast track investments across its global studio network.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-12\/98602\/virtuos-bolsters-european-presence-with-its-new-lyon-studio\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 12 October 2021 &#8211; Virtuos, a leading global video&#13; game development company, today announced the establishment of a new studio in&#13; Lyon, France&#8217;s second major video game development center after Paris. 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