Rawr I'm A Dragon
Ubisoft's Hungry Shark series swaps seas for skies in recently soft-launched Hungry Dragon
FGOL probably developing it, but no evidence to support this
Company Profile
Ubisoft
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www.ubi.com
About
Ubisoft is a leading international developer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment products founded in 1986 by the five Guillemot brothers.
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VP of Digital Publishing
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CEO
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Senior Producer
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Jean-Philippe Pieuchot
MD
Baptiste Chardon
Monetization Manager
Kari Silvennoinen
Business Intelligence Lead
Frédéric Peltier
Technical Production Director
Alain Corre
Executive Director, EMEA Territories
Leon Winkler
Director of International Events
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Accolades
Articles featuring Ubisoft
Ubisoft Financials Q2 Fy18
Ubisoft's Ketchapp and Growtopia catalogue boost mobile DAUs by 234%
Very little else to mention in its financials
Rare Creations
Ubisoft Milan: We want to be the new Rare
Fresh off the success of Mario and Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, we sit down with Ubisoft Milan’s top brass
Best Of 2017
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2017
The movers, shakers and moneymakers
Ubisoft In China
Ubisoft wants to make China its second-largest market as it pushes harder into Asia
Eyes global expansion, new tech, and keeping Vivendi out
Ubisoft Financials Q1 Fy18
Ubisoft scores $233 million in sales with 80% of its total revenues generated from digital products
11% of total sales came from mobile and ancillaries
Cuddly Assassins
Ubisoft teams up with Behaviour Interactive for F2P mobile RPG Assassin's Creed Rebellion
Can Behaviour replicate Fallout Shelter success?
See If You Can't Unwind
Ubisoft taps South Park IP for mobile game Phone Destroyer
Coming later this year
Starman
Ubisoft gets in on toys-to-life space with new IP Starlink
Comes with a customisable ship
Daaahhh!
Ubisoft teams up with Nintendo for Mario Rabbids crossover on Switch
Shigeru Miyamoto makes surprise appearance during reveal
Ubisoft Financials Q4 Fy17
Ubisoft plots acquisitions after mobile division accounted for just 7% of its $1.6 billion sales in FY17
Plots out big plans for its FY18
Vivendi Ubisoft Takeover
Report: Vivendi sets eyes on takeover bid for Ubisoft by end of 2017
Needs to show investors that they have no need to worry
Mighty Partnership
Ubisoft partners with Tencent and Playcrab for China-focused Might & Magic strategy game
Might & Magic Heroes: Era of Chaos expected to launch June 2017
Battle Royale
Gameloft and Ubisoft gunning for Clash Royale with Blitz Brigade and Tom Clancy's ShadowBreak
Supercell's smash hit gets competition
Grow Up
Ubisoft acquires massively-multiplayer sandbox game Growtopia
Already has 20 million registered users
Ubisoft Financials Q3 Fy17
Mobile makes little impact as Ubisoft sales drop to $564 million
Soft-launched Rabbids Crazy Rush given a release window after lengthy testing period
Mighty Interesting
Ubisoft may be bringing back PC RPG The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot for mobile
App Annie listing suggests it's close to release
Just Fine
French stock market fines five Ubisoft execs €1.2 million for insider trading
Ubisoft appealing the decision
Vivendi Gains Ground
Vivendi now owns a quarter of all Ubisoft shares but continues to claim no takeover is imminent
25.15% of shares and 22.92% of voting rights
Ubisoft Switch
Ubisoft designing Nintendo Switch games with mobile play sessions in mind
Appealing to hardcore and casual gamers alike
Upping The Stakes
Vivendi increases stake in Ubisoft to 24%
Now has 21% of the voting rights
Bwhaaaat?
Ubisoft cans card-battler Rabbids Heroes five months into soft launch
Online services to shut down November 15th
Ubi-switch
Ubisoft CEO: Nintendo Switch could redefine we the way we play games
Yves Guillemot appears bullish about Nintendo's new hardware
Mobile Mavens
Why did Ubisoft buy Ketchapp?
The industry's best and brightest discuss
Fix Up Look Sharp
Ubisoft launches new casual title Face Up, its first mobile game following the Ketchapp acquisition
Maybe looking into the casual market a little more intently?
Keeping Control
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot blasts Vivendi's quest for control as "dangerous"
Warns of the "great risk" to shareholders
Big Deal
Ubisoft acquires prolific mobile games publisher Ketchapp
French publisher expands mobile operations with key deal
Clawing It Back
Ubisoft fights Vivendi's request for greater control by buying back $137.5 million in stock
Bringing 3.2% back under control
Family-owned
Guillemot family buying up another 3.5% of shares in Ubisoft to ward off Vivendi takeover
Unnamed bank backing the purchase
Local Content
Ubisoft and Ourpalm partner to make mobile Assassin's Creed MMO for China
Ourpalm also publishing Hungry Shark World
Iap Inspector
Apex predator: the monetisation of Hungry Shark World
How FGOL added F2P meta-game to Hungry Shark
Chomping Up Charts
Looks like Ubisoft has a mobile hit on its hands as Hungry Shark World does 10 million downloads in 6 days
And top 50 grossing too
Ezio Hunters
Ubisoft and Lilith Games partner to bring Assassin's Creed to Soul Hunters
Ezio Auditore to be a playable character in the Chinese action-RPG
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
Power Of Rewards
How Ubisoft worked with MoPub to add rewarded videos and double LTV
Another string to the publisher's revenue bow
Fly, Fire, Upgrade
FTUE: Sandstorm: Pirate Wars
Post-apocalyptical
Rising Creed
Assassin's Creed Identity reborn - out February 25 on iOS
No news on Android though
Assassinated?
After 17 months in soft launch, Assassin's Creed Identity quietly removed from App Store
Ubisoft draws a line?
Sharing
Does the Vivendi-proposed Gameloft-Ubisoft merger make sense?
Our Mavens talk triple French
Tricolore Triforce
Boosting shareholdings to over 10%, Vivendi reveals plans to force operational convergence with Ubisoft and Gameloft
More to come
French Fancies
Is Vivendi's move the first step in a Ubisoft-Gameloft merger?
Corporate stalking horse
Ubisoft Acquisition
Ubisoft expands its mobile presence with acquisition of Longtail Studios
Now simply Ubisoft Halifax
Time Vs Attention
Ubisoft's Chris Early on rethinking the value exchange in free-to-play games
What's your player resource index?
Simply The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2015
The shakers, makers and movers
Monkey Maker
Ubisoft rolls out Monkey King Escape to western markets
Cracked China before it targeted the west
Ubijobs
Ubisoft graduate program opens for 2015 business
Opportunity to work with a top studio somewhere in the world
Hunger Hits China
OurPalm signs China publishing deal with Ubisoft over Hungry Shark Evolution
Ubisoft and OurPalm enter agreement
Financials
Ubisoft says FY15 H1 mobile game revenues already 45% higher than FY14
Sector growing very fast from a small base
Opinion
Welcome to EGX: The event that highlights the growing indie vs triple-A console divide
Yes, we can have too many Assassin's Creed games
Nordic Game 2014
Nordic success down to "strong tradition of storytelling", says Massive Entertainment MD
Polfeldt tracks the rise of Scandinavia