{"id":31594,"date":"2026-06-17T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/red-barrels-celebrates-15-years-of-success-in-the-video-game-industry"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:57:32","slug":"red-barrels-celebrates-15-years-of-success-in-the-video-game-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/red-barrels-celebrates-15-years-of-success-in-the-video-game-industry","title":{"rendered":"Red Barrels celebrates 15 years of success in the video game industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the occasion of the 2026 National Game Awards in Toronto, the Montreal studio kicked off its festivities with a tribute video to its famous horror franchise <strong>Outlast<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the release of the first <em>Outlast<\/em> in 2013, the series has generated over <strong>$230 million in revenue<\/strong> and has sold over <strong>50 million copies<\/strong>. The studio, which has grown <strong>from 10 to more than 80 employees<\/strong>, has won several prestigious awards over the years for its games, sound design, and development.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Major industry players, including <strong>La Guilde du jeu vid\u00e9o du Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong> and the <strong>Canada Media Fund<\/strong>, highlighted the impact of Red Barrels, which is considered an example of the international influence of Quebec creativity.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company continues to grow with recruitment, the continuous improvement of its existing games, including <em>The Outlast Trials<\/em>, and the development of a new project that is still secret.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To mark this anniversary, Red Barrels organized a special event in Montreal on May 26, 2026 where its founders looked back on the history of the studio, the challenges faced, their corporate culture and the factors that contributed to their success.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"15 ans de Red Barrels - du CEIM au panth\u00e9on de l&#039;horreur\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HfaowpUgets?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the 2026 National Game Awards in Toronto, the Montreal studio kicked off its festivities with a tribute video to its famous horror franchise Outlast. Since the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":31591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,491,623,2010,465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-en","category-in-the-news","category-news","category-posts","category-sections-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31595,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31594\/revisions\/31595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}