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It Sure Sounds Like Assassin's Creed Shadows Is Coming To Switch 2 This Year
22.7.2025
The Switch 2 seemingly has the capacity to be a perfect port machine for recent blockbusters. Will Assassin’s Creed Shadows be one of them? Reading between the lines of a recent Ubisoft earnings call, it certainly sounds like that’s what the French publisher has planned.Read more
Stop Killing Games YouTuber Says Someone's Filing False Claims Against EU Initiative
21.7.2025
The Stop Killing Games campaign has continued building momentum in recent weeks, even popping up during at least one publisher shareholder meeting. With over 1.4 million signatures in support, the EU petition “Stop Destroying Videogames” now has a real shot at forcing the issue with regulators...
Ubisoft CEO Blames Outlaws' Struggles On 'Choppy' Star Wars Universe
21.7.2025
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot’s has made some comments on the sales issues of Star Wars Outlaws. The big boss claims that Outlaws’ middling performance last year was, in large part, because the whole Star Wars franchise was in “choppy waters.”Read more
Ubisoft Shareholder Confronts Boss About 'Woke' Assassin's Creed
18.7.2025
Shareholder meetings are usually pretty boring affairs, but in video games, you sometimes get players themselves showing up. They buy a piece of the company, and instead of complaining online like everyone else, they get to ask questions directly to the CEO’s face once a year. That’s what happened...
Ubisoft CEO Makes His Son Co-CEO Of New Ubisoft
16.7.2025
Earlier this year, Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft got $1.25 billion from Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent to spin-off its most successful gaming franchises into a separate subsidiary. Now we know who’s running this new Ubisoft within Ubisoft: North American studios head Christophe Derennes and...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Devs Reportedly Advised Not To Post About It Amid Harassment Campaign
17.3.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out in just a few days and Ubisoft has a lot riding on the blockbuster’s launch as it reportedly explores breaking up the company following multiple years of delays, cancellations, and disappointing sales. Complicating matters, the latest installment in the long-running...
Ubisoft Confirms It's Exploring New Rayman Ideas Amid Report Of A Remake
23.10.2024
The original Rayman is the game that put Ubisoft on the map. It’s been over a decade since the last installment in the colorful platformer franchise, but the French publisher is currently in the “early stages” of exploring what will come next for the series’ titular limbless hero. Read more
Ubisoft se otřásá v základech, investoři chtějí vyštípat zakladatele
16.9.2024
Část investorů francouzského vydavatelství Ubisoft otevřeně kritizuje jeho vedení, nelíbí se jim strategické směřování společnosti. Očekávaný hit Star Wars Outlaws se neprodává tak dobře, jak bylo očekáváno, a proto požadují hlavu ředitele Yvese Guillemota. Jeho rodina přitom společnost před...
Five Former Ubisoft Execs Arrested By Police For Questioning About Sexual Misconduct Allegations
4.10.2023
Three years after allegations of sexual misconduct inside Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft first surfaced, French authorities are moving ahead with a criminal investigation. Five former executives were detained for questioning on October 3, including former VP Tommy Francois, and CEO Yves...
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...
Coinbase new blockchain seen as 'massive confidence vote' for Ethereum
24.2.2023
One Ethereum bull hopes the launch will help onboard a host of other crypto companies and financial institutions onto Ethereum
Šéf Ubisoftu se omluvil za neuctivý vzkaz zaměstnancům
19.1.2023
Francouzskému vydavatelství Ubisoft se loni vůbec nedařilo a svůj podíl viny na tom má i ředitel společnosti Yves Guillemot. Ten navíc čelí tlaku zaměstnanců, jimž se nelíbí, že odpovědnost za budoucnost firmy přenáší jan na ně
Ubisoft Employees Asked To Strike Over CEO's Comments, Pay Demands
18.1.2023
Ubisoft hasn’t had the best couple of years. A string of flops and disappointments means the company isn’t in the best shape as it heads into 2023, so in an attempt to get everyone firing last week CEO Yves Guillemot sent an email to staff telling them “The ball is in your court”. It did not...
Ubisoft CEO Takes $300,000 Pay Cut After Company’s Poor Performance
24.6.2022
The latest Ubisoft earnings reports shared that longtime chief executive Yves Guillemot will voluntarily take a sizable pay cut totaling €310,607 (around $327,000 USD).Read more
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...
Jim Sterling: From 'Pathetic Edgelord' To YouTube's 'Princess Of Pansexual Pandemonium'
9.2.2022
As a child, James Stephanie Sterling often found themselves picking apart what made games good or bad, what entertained and what left them cold. Silent Hill 2 would prove their favorite game. They adored its evocatively bleak atmosphere, and years later, that mirrors how they feel about the video...
Despite Pandemic, Gaming CEOs Made An Obscene Amount Of Money In 2020
14.1.2022
In 2020, as the world grappled with a paradigmatic societal shift in the form of a globe-spanning pandemic, chief executives of the biggest gaming companies collectively brought home close to $1 billion. That’s according to a new report from market intelligence firm Games One, which collates...
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