Quebec: All Video Games in French!

Quebec Government Minister Christine Saint-Pierre stirred things up in Quebec today by her declaration to Le Soleil newspaper that all video games coming to Quebec would have to be made available in French, not by law (pursuant to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language) but through an agreement with the video game industry.

Our sources confirm that only an agreement in principle has been reached with the Entertainment Software Association of Canada and that a formal agreement has not yet been signed. We have found out that a formal news release detailing the content of the agreement was scheduled to be released in early September.