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 revealed that it replaced Julian Gerighty as its Creative Director for Star Wars Outlaws in the wake of admitting that it "underperformed sales expectations." In the game's first Dev Update, Ubisoft shared that Drew Rechner is now the game's Creative...
Marc-Alexis Coté, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed boss, claims that the upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game will lay the foundation of a "narrative evolution" for the franchise that will attempt to revive its present-day storylines. As reported by Eurogamer, Coté...
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté, admitted that the company's injection of DEI into Assassin's Creed Shadows is harming the game's potential, but declared that he plans to double down on it and even attacked his critics. As reported by Eurogamer, Côté...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot failed to provide any details on XDefiant after previously promising investors he would do so. Back in September, Guillemot and Ubisoft revealed that it was lowering its second quarter revenue expectations by 30% from €500 million to...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed that the company is spending an additional €20 million on Assassin's Creed Shadows by delaying the game to February. Ubisoft announced back in September that it would be delaying the game to February 14th. It wrote in a press...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot completely and utterly avoided a question about whether or not sales for Star Wars Outlaws have improved since launch. In the company's First-Half 2024-25 Earnings Figures report it revealed that Star Wars Outlaws "underperformed sales...
Ubisoft announced in its first half 2024-25 Earnings Figures report that Star Wars Outlaws "underperformed sales expectations" despite achieving "solid reviews." The company revealed that its net bookings came in on the low end of of its revised expectations for the...
The French video game union, Syndicat des Travailleurs·ses du Jeu Vidéo, that organized Ubisoft employees to strike earlier this month recently declared that "it is vital to move away from the belief that single people are essential to the realization of a project."...
Michael Douse, the Director of Publishing for Baldur's Gate 3 and its developer Larian Studios, blasted Ubisoft in the wake of a number of blunders including the Prince of Persia: The Last Crown, which is rumored to have seen its developer team disbanded after not...
Mark Rubin, the Executive Producer on Ubisoft's live-service free-to-play shooter XDefiant, responded to rumors claiming that the company has "NO plans to shut down after Season 4." Rubin posted to X, "To be crystal clear there are NO plans to shut down after season...
A new rumor alleges that Ubisoft disbanded the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown development team. This rumor comes from French YouTube channel ORIGAMI whose host detailed that at the Ubisoft Montpellier office employees were seen transporting boxes of supplies from...
Star Wars Outlaws sales appear to have completely stagnated in the little over a month since the game released. It was reported by Insider Gaming that the game sold just over 1 million copies in its first month since it released on August 30th. Grant Taylor-Hill...