Microïds

Microïds was a game development studio founded in 1985 by Elliot Grassiano. In 1995 in addition to development it expanded into publishing and distribution.

Some of the best sellers in the company's large games library were primarily in the adventure genre: Amerzone, Syberia I and II, Still Life and Obscure.

The company employed over 200 people, 105 of which were based in their Montreal, Canada, development division.

Divisions active in April 2003 were:

• Microïds France (Vélizy, France near Paris): publishing, sales, distribution, marketing
• Microïds Canada (Montreal, Quebec, Canada): development
• Microïds UK (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom): publishing, sales, distribution, marketing
• Microïds Italia (Milan, Italy): publishing, sales, distribution (later split off to Blue Label Entertainment)

In 2003, Microïds merged with MC2 and changed its name to MC2-Microïds. In September 2003, the company acquired Wanadoo Edition including its complete catalog. The merging resulted in the forming of MC2 France. Founder Elliot Grassiano left the company and Emmanuel Olivier became CEO.

Within the next year, the Italian branch broke away from the company and changed its name to Blue Label Entertainment.

In March 2005, Ubisoft acquired Microïds Canada, the company's Canadian development operations. Ubisoft Canada Inc, Ubisoft's Montréal branch, got 50 of the employees who were integrated into Ubisoft's Montréal development teams. Only the Canadian division was effected. All other MC2-Microïds branches were not involved, and MC2-Microïds retained all assets and rights to their previous releases as well as projects in development.

In November 2007, the company announced the relaunch of the Microïds publishing label lead by Emmanuel Olivier and other original founders of Index+.

The company briefly changed its name from MC2-Microïds to MC2 and then back again to just Microïds.

On 9 December 2008, the company was dissolved. The assets were bought by Anuman Interactive who went on to establish Microïds as an internal development division as well as the continuation of the Microïds publishing labels.