Ubisoft is being Sued — and this time, the company's legal trouble isn’t coming from players or regulators, but from inside the company’s own executive ranks. The French video game publisher Ubisoft is facing a $1.3 million CAD lawsuit filed by longtime executive...
Ubisoft, the French video game company behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and others, abruptly requested a halt on trading company shares and postponed delivering their financial earnings report for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year. No reason was given, though observers agree this is probably a bad sign.
Ubisoft has reportedly canceled an Assassin’s Creed game set during the Post American Civil War Reconstruction era. According to a report from Game File, the project was scrapped in 2024 after the company faced backlash over the Black samurai Yasuke in Assassin’s Creed Shadows and grew nervous about the political climate in the United States.
Ubisoft, a company known for tone-deaf statements and endless microtransactions, just made a tone-deaf statement about microtransactions.
In a move that has reignited long-simmering frustrations among gamers, Ubisoft recently doubled down on its controversial monetization strategies. In their latest annual report, the company boldly claimed that microtransactions in premium single-player games enhance the player experience, making it “more fun” by offering optional ways to “personalize avatars or progress more quickly.”
In a move that could offer a fleeting lifeline to a struggling publisher, Netflix has officially greenlit a live-action series based on Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise.
Ubisoft stock fell sharply on Thursday, dropping more than 18% to €9.55 per share following a fourth-quarter earnings report that disappointed investors and triggered renewed concerns about the company’s financial direction.
After months of internal emails and corporate reshuffling, Ubisoft Leamington has now publicly confirmed its permanent closure. The announcement came not through a high-profile press release or coordinated corporate messaging—but instead via a modest two-part post on the studio’s unverified X account, symbolizing how far Ubisoft’s reach has fallen.
Ubisoft employees are rattled over the potential for mass layoffs—and they have every reason to be.
On Thursday, Ubisoft announced it is forming a new gaming subsidiary in partnership with Chinese tech giant Tencent. The new entity will house the company’s most valuable franchises, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six along with select development studios. While the press release spins this as the start of a “bold new chapter,” internal reactions suggest that the only thing bold about this move is the level of uncertainty it has created for Ubisoft’s remaining workforce.
Ubisoft is hemorrhaging money. That much has been clear since the release of its catastrophic Q3 FY25 earnings report, which revealed a company in freefall. Net bookings plunged 51.8% year-over-year in Q3 alone. Digital bookings fell 33.8%. Player recurring investment—the bread and butter of live-service games—dropped 33.7%. And the company’s debt-to-EBITDA ratio now sits at a nightmarish -21.1x, suggesting Ubisoft is losing money at a rate that makes its financial model unsustainable even before taxes, interest, or amortization are factored in.
So when Ubisoft suddenly announced this week that it had created a new gaming subsidiary—backed by a €1.16 billion ($1.25 billion) investment from Chinese tech giant Tencent—investors were understandably confused. Why would a company circling the drain be launching bold new ventures?
Ubisoft’s troubled launch of Assassin’s Creed Shadows just took an even stranger turn. Players who’ve completed the game are discovering that the credits sequence runs an unprecedented two hours long—a detail that seems almost surreal in light of the company’s current financial struggles.
The release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows was supposed to be Ubisoft’s saving grace. After months of delays, backlash, and a marketing campaign marred by controversy, all eyes were on how the game would perform on its launch day. But the numbers are in for Assassin’s Creed Shadows—and they’re not looking good for Ubisoft, particularly on Steam.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows has finally launched, but not without one more last-minute change that speaks volumes about Ubisoft’s troubled rollout of the game. Reports confirm that Ubisoft has quietly issued a day one Assassin’s Creed Shadows patch that specifically removes the ability for players to destroy or deface major items within Japanese shrine locations—a direct response to the mounting backlash from Japanese officials and the public.
With Assassin’s Creed Shadows set to launch in just three days, Ubisoft’s mounting desperation has reached a new level. Reports now indicate that the company has quietly enlisted a special team tasked with shielding the developers from what they call “online harassment.” However, it’s the vague, undefined nature of what Ubisoft actually considers “harassment” that’s raising serious concerns—and has many questioning whether the company is simply using this initiative to silence critics and control the narrative around its latest, highly controversial title.