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.
A new report reveals that multiple financial analysts have downgraded Ubisoft's stock with a number of them citing Star Wars Outlaws and predicting the game will "underperform expectations." Bloomberg reports that investment firm "BNP Paribas downgraded the stock to...
Ubisoft, the company behind Star Wars Outlaws, XDefiant, Assassin's Creed, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, saw its stock price drop 7% in a single day as it faces pressure from investors to take the company private as well as reports of soft sales for Star Wars Outlaws....
Another one of Ubisoft's major releases this year appears to be mightily struggling as a new rumor claims that the company's XDefiant game is seeing "continuously declining player numbers and lack of player spending." This rumor comes from Tom Henderson at Insider...
A rumor claims that physical pre-orders for Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game are less than 800 from a national retail chain that has over 900 stores. This rumor comes from Craig Skistimas aka Stuttering Craig, who owns and hosts the Side Scrollers...
Ubisoft's Skull and Bones went on sale for $10 as part of a promotional campaign at Best Buy just 6 months after the company's CEO described the game as AAAA and attempted to justify a $70 price tag. Best Buy is running a promotion through August 18th where they are...
A new player sentiment analysis conducted by PlayerXP contradicts Ubisoft's claim that Assassin's Creed Shadows has "positive community sentiment." During the company's Q1 FY2025 Sales conference call in July, an investor from HSBC asked about how pre-orders for both...
Ubisoft executives CEO Yves Guillemot and CFO Frédérick Duguet did their best to avoid questions from institutional investors regarding the company's potential sales for its upcoming games Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows. During the company's Q1 FY 2024...
Ubisoft's stock plummeted 12% in the past five days following the company's most recent earnings reports that revealed it had exceeded sales targets for its first financial quarter of the year. Yahoo! Finance reports that the Ubisoft stock fell 12.42% in the last five...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced that the company will be remaking a number of its older Assassin's Creed titles. Not only will they be remaking them, but they will be modernizing them too. In an interview posted to Ubisoft's website, Guillemot was asked, "On the...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stated that he's dismayed by alleged "malicious and personal online attacks" that have been directed at Ubisoft team members and partners. In an interview with Lucy O'Brien, Ubisoft's Director of Editorial Communications, that was published...
Brazilian gamer and newly minted YouTuber Kabrutus added Ubisoft Ivory Tower's The Crew Motorfest to the Sweet Baby Inc. Detected Steam curator list. Kabrutus shared a video of him adding the game to the curator list after he showed that the game was featured on Sweet...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot recently admitted the company had been making a number of bad games, but promised to course correct. In the company's FY 24 Q3 Sales report, Guillemot stated, "This quarter provided us with positive momentum and marks the beginning of our...