Just days after the announcement that Ubisoft's free-to-play FPS XDefiant is shutting down, it's been reported that the company being bought out is still a possibility, but sources claim that it's in talks about how a potential buyout could be structured in a way that wouldn't reduce the founding Guillemot family's control.
Back in October, it was claimed that Tencent and Ubisoft had been in talks about how to both boost the value of the Assassin's Creed developer and help stabilize it, with one of the options brought up apparently being to team up and take the company private. Shortly after, Ubisoft put out a statement (via VGC) to acknowledge "recent press speculation regarding potential interests around the Company," and said that it "regularly reviews all its strategic options in the interest of stakeholders and will inform the market if and when appropriate." So… it wasn't going to confirm anything either way.
