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The Latest Breaking News from Yves Guillemot

Ubisoft cancels projects and announces restructure in fight to stay competitive

Video game publisher to cancel Prince of Persia remake and close studios after several difficult years

The Guardian - UK

Ubisoft Undergoes Major Overhaul: Six Games, Multiple Studios and Employees Axed

Game developer Ubisoft is undergoing major restructuring, cancelling six projects, closing multiple studios and laying off employees.

International Business Times UK

Don't call it a layoff: Ubisoft issues a full return-to-office order for all employees as it confirms more studio closures are coming

I can't help wondering if maybe there's a connection.

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Ubisoft's cancellations-and-closures announcement sparks major union backlash against CEO Yves Guillemot, and the inevitable call for a strike: 'Perhaps he needs to be reminded that it is his employees who make the games'

Raise your hand if you saw this coming.

PC Gamer

Ubisoft kills 6 games, delays 7, and lays off devs as it kicks off a "major reset" — "While these decisions are difficult, they are necessary"

As part of a huge "major reset," Ubisoft has canceled six games, delayed seven, laid developers off, and reorganized its teams into "Creative Houses."

Windows Central

Ubisoft hits "major reset" button, cancels 6 games including Prince of Persia remake, delays 7 more reportedly including Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake, and confirms 4 new IP

Ubisoft also closed two studios in sweeping cost cuts

GamesRadar

Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time Remake is cancelled as Ubisoft announces major internal restructuring and more layoffs and studio closures on the way

The Sands of Time Remake is one of six projects that have been cancelled in the overhaul, along with seven more that are delayed.

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Amazon sells a free-to-play MOBA it had in development, and the studio making it, to Ubisoft

The sale of March of Giants comes less than two months after Amazon said it had decided to "halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development."

PC Gamer

Ubisoft Boss: Generative AI Is as Transformative as the Jump to 3D

Controversial indeed.

Operation Sports

Ubisoft makes a big bet on "generative AI-driven gameplay" leading to "more interactive and engaging games," CEO says "this work reflects the direction we want to take"

Ubisoft is integrating gen AI at all its studios and offices

GamesRadar

Joining Valve's Gabe Newell at the altar of AI, Ubisoft CEO says the controversial tech will be "as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D"

Ubisoft is using generative AI "in all our studios and offices"

GamesRadar

Ubisoft says AI is 'as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D,' its magical AI NPCs are out of prototyping, and you bet it's got 'all our studios' working with the tech

Oh. Good.

PC Gamer

Ubisoft hasn't exploded or been bought by Tencent: Its finances were delayed because of maths nerds, AC Shadows is 'Overperforming', and it's got one upcoming game you don't know about, thank you

All that sound and fury signified nothing, it turned out.

PC Gamer

Ubisoft says Tencent's $1.3 billion investment in its new Assassin's Creed-focused Vantage Studios is "imminent," in a move that will "accelerate the growth of our 3 flagship IPs"

The deal is "on track to close in the coming days"

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Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading

We don't know what's going on, but something is definitely happening.

The Guardian - UK

What does my love for impossibly difficult video games say about me?

From Demon Souls to Baby Steps, challenging games keep a certain type of player coming back for more. I wonder why we are such suckers for punishment

PC Gamer

Ubisoft CEO claims it just stopped feeding the trolls when it came to Assassin's Creed: Shadows, which 'very quickly eliminated the fights, which were just fake fights'

That's all great, Guillemot, but I have a couple notes.

GamesRadar

Assassin's Creed Shadows devs only found the confidence to rally against its "loudest haters" when Ubisoft realized "We had to stop focusing on those who hated us"

"Our goal is really to be able to ensure that our fans discover and defend what they expect from our games"

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Assassin's Creed franchise boss leaves Ubisoft just 7 months after heading up one of the best-selling games in the history of the series

Marc-Alexis Côté's departure comes just a couple weeks after Ubisoft announced the launch of a new subsidiary that will take control of the series.

TechRadar

Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin's Creed game featuring a Black Assassin confronting the Ku Klux Klan during the 1800s due to Yasuke backlash and the political climate in the US

Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin's Creed game featuring a Black protagonist during the post-Civil War period due to the political state of the US and Yasuke backlash.

TechRadar

Ubisoft and Tencent form Vantage Studios, a new subsidiary responsible for the development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six

Ubisoft has launched Vantage Studios, a new subsidiary that will lead the development of its biggest franchises, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six.

PC Gamer

Ubisoft's new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a 'creative house' that will take over development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six

Vantage Studios is the first of multiple new studios Ubisoft and Tencent plan to launch in the future.

PC Gamer

Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK: 'Talking with partners who do not share our democratic values does not mean abandoning them'

The free DLC takes players to an historic part of Saudi Arabia.

GamesRadar

Ubisoft CEO says AI will make open-world games "your world" with fewer "pre-scripted things," and screw it, maybe for Assassin's Creed an AI Socrates that will definitely give you a historically accurate philosophy lesson maybe

Wow, yes, Socrates in a Ubisoft game, truly an innovation we could only reach with the power of AI

GamesRadar

Ubisoft says it has creative control over the Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC, which is set in Saudi Arabia, was announced in Saudi Arabia, and which even employees fear might be funded by Saudi Arabia

"This title update to Assassin’s Creed Mirage was made possible thanks to the support of local and international organizations"

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