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Skull And Bones Loses Another Creative Director, Faces Union Campaign

6.9.2023
Ubisoft’s open seas pirate fantasy from hell has lost its third creative director. Kotaku has learned that Elisabeth Pellen, who began working with the Skull and Bones team back in 2018, left Ubisoft Singapore to return to the French publisher’s Paris headquarters earlier this summer. The game’s...

Skull And Bones Loses Another Creative Director, Faces Union Campaign

6.9.2023
Ubisoft’s open seas pirate fantasy from hell has lost its third creative director. Kotaku has learned that Elisabeth Pellen, who began working with the Skull and Bones team back in 2018, left Ubisoft Singapore to return to the French publisher’s Paris headquarters earlier this summer. The game’s...

Report: Private Equity Eyeing Ubisoft As The Next Big Gaming Acquisition

23.4.2022
Private equity firms could be beginning to circle over Ubisoft, Bloomberg reported Friday. Talks are early, but include interest from firms like Blackstone Inc. and KKR & Co. Even if it’s not private equity, senior current and former Ubisoft developers Kotaku has spoken with in recent months...

As Billions Fly, Ubisoft Analyst Just Wondering Why Nobody Wants To Buy It

17.2.2022
With three massive game industry acquisitions this year already, everyone’s wondering what will happen to the few big publishers and studios left. Chief among those question marks is Ubisoft, the Assassin’s Creed maker currently struggling to make new hits. Amidst delays and employee frustration...

No One’s Buying Ubisoft’s Garbage Ghost Recon NFTs

20.12.2021
Well, damn, I guess it’s my turn to write about these dumb Ubisoft NFTs. The publisher’s first virtual items on the blockchain, unique numbered items for players of Ghost Recon Breakpoint, are not exactly in high demand. Nope, not even that helmet with the 600-hour playtime requirement.Read more

Ubisoft Boss Tells Employees That NFTs Are Just The Beginning

17.12.2021
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot held a video Q&A this week to try and reassure developers about the company’s controversial new push behind NFTs, according to multiple sources who were in attendance. But they said his answers were vague and leaned on buzzwords like “metaverse” and “web 3.0,” leaving...

The Year In Gaming Apologies

16.12.2021
Video games had a lot to be sorry for in 2021, from the usual screenshot apologies over delays and busted launches, to things that actually matter like years of reported workplace abuse. Don’t worry though, everyone’s trying to do better.Read more

Despite Filing Harassment Reports, Employees Say Ubisoft Isn't Doing Much

21.10.2021
Shortly after Valerie arrived at Ubisoft Montreal in 2018, home to the hit Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed franchises, she says she was sexually harassed and the victim of racist remarks. She reported the incidents, but says nothing was done. The harassment happened again last year, only this time...

The Ubisoft Formula Seems To Be Wearing Thin

7.10.2021
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was one of last year’s best games and, arguably, a homerun moment in a multi-year project to transform the action stealth series into a full-fledged open-world RPG that could measure up to its genre-defining rivals. Everywhere else, however, Ubisoft seems to be hitting...

Ubisoft Appoints Another White French Guy As Head Creative

7.9.2021
Ubisoft’s new chief creative officer is Igor Manceau, a 20-year veteran of the company who most recently led development on Riders Republic, the company announced today. Manceau steps into the role over a year after previous CCO, Serge Hascoët, resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct, and...

Ubisoft Shutters Troubled Tom Clancy Game A Year After Launch

21.7.2021
In August of last year, Ubisoft launched a mobile Tom Clancy action-RPG called Elite Squad, which featured characters from Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, The Division, H.A.W.X., and EndWar (remember those last two?). Today, less than a full year later, Ubisoft’s Owlient studio announced...

The Messy, Stalled Reckoning At An Assassin's Creed Co-Developer

21.7.2021
Ubisoft Singapore has always been kind of known [internally] to be one of the worst Ubisoft studios in terms of culture,” said one former developer at the publisher of Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry. “People would visit [from other studios] and be like, ‘What the fuck is wrong here?’”Read more

Ubisoft CEO And Others Blamed For 'Institutional Harassment'

16.7.2021
Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry publisher Ubisoft is the target of a new complaint filed in French court that accuses the company, and its long-time CEO and co-founder, Yves Guillemot, of “institutional harassment.” According to a survey released last fall, one in four Ubisoft employees has either...

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