--- title: Report: Tencent quietly shutters Timi Montreal | daily.dev description: Tencent has quietly shut down Timi Montreal, a studio it opened around five years ago to develop an original AAA triple-A franchise. A now-deleted LinkedIn... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/report-tencent-quietly-shutters-timi-montreal-wxcxtquxt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Report: Tencent quietly shutters Timi Montreal | daily.dev og:description: Tencent has quietly shut down Timi Montreal, a studio it opened around five years ago to develop an original AAA triple-A franchise. A now-deleted LinkedIn... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/report-tencent-quietly-shutters-timi-montreal-wxcxtquxt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WxcXTquXt.png og:image:alt: Report: Tencent quietly shutters Timi Montreal og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Report: Tencent quietly shutters Timi Montreal **[Game Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/gamedeveloper)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tencent has quietly shut down Timi Montreal, a studio it opened around five years ago to develop an original AAA triple-A franchise. A now-deleted LinkedIn post from a former employee and multiple sources confirmed the closure. The studio had been working on an ambitious open-world, service-driven game for PC and consoles, though the fate of that project remains unclear. This follows the 2023 closure of Timi's LA studio, Team Kaiju, and ongoing layoffs at Tencent subsidiary Sumo Digital. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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