Star Citizen's Cloud Imperium Games Partners With Turbulent To Open New Studio In Montreal

Cloud Imperium Games, developer of the sci-fi MMO Star Citizen, has partnered with Turbulent to open a new studio in Montreal, Canada. The Montreal studio will focus on developing new tools and creating new worlds to contribute to the global development pipeline of Star Citizen in cooperation with studios in the US, UK, and Germany.

“The remit of the Turbulent Star Citizen team is to develop new tools to enhance and expand the existing pipeline, create new locations and features and also build entire new star systems for Star Citizen, which will make their way into the Star Citizen universe on an ongoing basis.”

The partnership comes after Cloud Imperium Games acquired a minority stake in Turbulent in 2019, a company that offers strategic guidance and custom technology to companies to help improve their processes.

“Montreal has an amazing talent pool of developers and a rich video game history, and we couldn’t be happier to add the very best local talent to work with the CIG family on the focused goal of building worlds for this unprecedented persistent universe,” said Turbulent Co-Founder and CTO Benoit Beausejour.

“Over the years, Turbulent has proven themselves to be an extremely reliable and creative partner. We entered into a partnership with Benoit and the team at Turbulent eight years ago, first to help us develop our web presence and then our publishing and platform capabilities,” said Cloud Imperium Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer Erin Roberts. “It’s a natural progression of our close relationship that we have now asked them to build out a dedicated content team from Montreal’s finest developers to help us create entire new star systems for the Star Citizen Persistent Universe.”