Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who founded Ubisoft and helped transform it into one of the world’s largest video game publishers, has died following a plane crash in western France. He was 69 years old.
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More Ubisoft Layoffs Hit as Development Ends at Red Storm Entertainment
Video game publisher Ubisoft has announced another round of layoffs. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Red Storm Entertainment—the studio long associated with the Tom Clancy franchise—will cease game development operations. The cuts will result in the loss of 105 jobs.
NVIDIA Advances Gaming Technology and Cloud Services With DLSS 5
NVIDIA Corporation is advancing key aspects of its gaming technology and cloud services with new graphics tools and infrastructure updates announced at its GTC 2026 conference and in subsequent company releases. This time, they are introducing technology with the...
Ubisoft Halts Share Trading as Earnings Report Delay Sparks Concern
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 Hits Star Wars: Outlaws Studio Massive Entertainment With Layoffs
Ubisoft has announced yet another round of layoffs — this time targeting one of its most infamous internal studios, Massive Entertainment, the developer behind Star Wars: Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
Ubisoft Reportedly Canceled Civil War–Era Assassin’s Creed Game Amid Yasuke Backlash and Political Fear
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.
Star Wars Outlaws Reportedly Performs Poorly on Switch 2, But it Never Performed Well on Other Systems Either
Star Wars Outlaws is reportedly having major issues ahead of its launch on Nintendo Switch 2. But for anyone familiar with the game, this should come as no shock.
Rumor: Ubisoft Cancels Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Amid Disappointing Sales
In a galaxy not so far away, the Star Wars gaming universe faces another setback. A new rumor suggests that Ubisoft has quietly canceled development on a sequel to Star Wars Outlaws, the open-world action-adventure game released in 2024.
Ubisoft Claims Microtransactions in Single Player Games Make the Experience ‘More Fun’ as Audience Collectively Facepalms
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.”
Ubisoft Blames Disney/Lucasfilm and State of Modern Star Wars for Failure of Star Wars: Outlaws
Star Wars Outlaws, an open-world action-adventure game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft, was released on August 30, 2024, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Billed as the first open-world Star Wars game, it promised players the chance to explore the galaxy as a scoundrel named Kay Vess, engaging in heists, space combat, and interactions with criminal syndicates between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot Makes his Son Head of New Tencent Subsidiary After Family’s Mismanagement and His Own Business Flops as Gaming World Cries Nepotism
In what many are calling a brazen display of nepotism that has left the gaming world fuming, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot—whose family has helmed the company’s catastrophic decline—has installed his son, Charlie Guillemot, as co-CEO of a newly spun-off subsidiary controlling the publisher’s crown jewel IPs.
Netflix Greenlights Long-Awaited Assassin’s Creed Live-Action Series as Ubisoft Grapples with Financial Collapse
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 Defends EULA Mandating Players Destroy Physical Game Copies by Noting It’s Existed for Over a Decade
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital gaming, a longstanding clause in the Ubisoft End User License Agreement (EULA) has recently sparked widespread outrage among gamers and industry observers. The provision, which requires users to destroy all physical copies of a game upon termination of its license, has been thrust into the spotlight amid growing concerns over game preservation and consumer rights.