Question: What Montreal-based Canadian game publisher, created the game universe Heavy Gear?
Context: Heavy Gear is a game universe published since 1994 by Canadian publisher Dream Pod 9.  It includes a tabletop tactical wargame, a role-playing game and a lesser known combat card game ("Heavy Gear Fighter").  The setting is also known through the PC-game incarnations published by Activision in 1997 and 1999, developed after Activision lost the rights to the "Battletech"/"MechWarrior" series.  It also spawned a 40-episodes, 3D-animated TV series in 2001, which featured a much simplified version of the universe developed in the role-playing game. Heavy Gear is a 1997 computer game based on the "Heavy Gear" role-playing game.  A sequel, "Heavy Gear II", was released in 1999. Heavy Gear II is a mecha based first-person shooter video game.  Set in Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear universe, the game was developed and published by Activision in 1999 for Microsoft Windows, it was ported to Linux in 2000 by Loki Software.  It is a sequel to the 1997 video game "Heavy Gear". Artie Gold (15 January 1947 – 14 February 2007) was a Montreal-based Canadian poet who rose to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the circle of Montreal-based writers known as The Vehicule Poets.  Characterized as one of the wildest and most daring of the Vehicule poets, Gold was influenced by the work of Jack Spicer and Frank O'Hara, his cats (to whom he was allergic) and his myriad eclectic autodidact interests.  Though plagued by illness throughout his life, he worked prolifically and was always less interested in fame or academic placement than he was in creating poetry "at the front of the arts".  In a tribute to Gold, the Montreal "Gazette" considered him "one of Canada's finest poets". NextGen Player is a Canadian-based gaming news website, blog, and monthly podcasting site.  NextGen Player covers the Canadian video game news, coverage of live Canadian gaming events, video game previews and reviews, highlights of Canadian game promotions and retail sales, as well as coverage of Canadian game sales data and research.  NextGen Player was founded in April 2008 by Paul Hunter and Andrew Shin. Legends of Wrestling is a series of professional wrestling video games based on the best wrestlers of all time, from WWF/WWE, NWA, WCW, ECW, TNA and various independent promotions.  It was developed and produced by Acclaim.  It was released in 2001 for the PlayStation 2, then in 2002 for the GameCube and Xbox.  In 2006, Canadian game publisher Throwback Entertainment acquired the license and publishing rights to "Legends of Wrestling". Ryan Mullins (born 1981) is a Montreal-based Canadian film director, cinematographer and editor.  He is part of the Montreal-based Canadian film production company, EyeSteelFilm.  His directing credits include the documentary short "Volta", and the feature documentary "The Frog Princes".  The film won a Golden Sheaf at the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival, and was also awarded the NFB Kathleen Shannon Award for a documentary film that "allows people outside the dominant culture to speak for themselves".  At the 2015 Hot Docs film festival in Toronto, Mullins won the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award for "Chameleon". Dream Pod 9 (also known as DP9) is a Montreal-based Canadian game publisher.  In addition to games, they have been known to work on special projects, creating worlds and stories to order for a variety of clients. Tony Asimakopoulos is a Montreal-based Canadian film director, cinematographer and freelance editor of Greek origin.  He often collaborates with the Montreal-based Canadian film production company EyeSteelFilm.  He is best known for his autobiographical documentary "Fortunate Son". Headline Hunters is a Canadian game show that appeared on CTV from 1972 to 1983.  It was originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir (creators of "The Newlywed Game", "Spin-Off", "Definition", "Guess What", and others).  It was hosted by Jim Perry, who hosted two other Canadian game shows ("Eye Bet" and "Definition") and several American game shows concurrently with its run.  Dave Devall, who worked with Perry on the aforementioned two series, served as the announcer and was a de facto co-host for this series.  It was a Glen-Warren Production for the CTV Television Network.
Answer: Dream Pod 9