Full Disclosure: THQ paid for my flight and hotel accommodations in Montreal. No coverage restrictions were placed upon me, and no promises of coverage of any sort were made to THQ by Bitmob.

THQ recently invited members of the gaming press to Montreal for the grand-opening of THQ Studio Montreal. THQ plans to have the operation fully-staffed within the next few years, and their intention is to turn this into a world-class studio. We were given a tour of the shiny new digs, and while there's not much there yet, I thought it would be cool to show you what a studio looks like in its infancy.

These tubes are the perfect place for treats and candy, but instead they're being used as mailboxes. I was disheartened to learn this, but then I realized that you could mail yourself treats and they'd be delivered right to you at work and nobody would have any idea. It would be awesome! Like, so awesome.

Studio Montreal will eventually employ around 400 people. Right now I believe the number is about 30. This is where the QA monkeys will sit once they exist. The architects purposely made these cubicle walls a little shorter so that the team could easily communicate and/or get in epic NERF gun battles.

It takes a lot of wire to like, wire everything together. Where to put it? How about the ceiling?! I wish I had baskets on my ceiling for all of my cable nonsense. 

Have a great idea? Write it on the wall! The walls in some of the conference rooms are actually dry-erase boards. You're probably trying to zoom-in on the wall to see what cool secrets were left out in the open, but the guy giving the tour made sure there was nothing sensitive for me to photograph. Boo!

This is one of the large multipurpose rooms. Here it's set up for hands-on with Homefront, but it can also be used as a meeting place for multiple teams, or sliding doors can be closed to create a more intimate conference room. 

Continue on to page two to see actual people working, the cleanest kitchen ever, and a theater room that's better than yours.