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Far Cry 5 doubles Far Cry 4 launch-week sales
Latest open-world shooter rakes in $310 million in first week, making it the fastest selling title in franchise history
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Far Cry 5 UK launch is the biggest in Far Cry history
Strong Easter sales all round for the boxed games market as Ubisoft ends March on a high
Feature
For Ubisoft it's goodbye Vivendi, hello Tencent
China's largest technology company, Tencent, is taking on 5% of Ubisoft - continuing its progress into becoming by far the largest game company most gamers have never heard of
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Ubisoft and Tencent form 'strategic agreement' to bring games to China
Tencent will publish, promote and operate Ubisoft's PC and mobile titles in its home market
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Vivendi sells its entire stake in Ubisoft
The Guillemot family regains control of the publisher, with Tencent taking a 5 per cent stake
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Google Cloud teams with Ubisoft for open-source game server project Agones
Companies invite developers to work together on enabling smoother matchmaking and multiplayer for games of all sizes
Feature
Ubisoft's sharing imperative
The hows and whys of the publisher's internal Ubisoft Developers Conference
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Ubisoft acquires Blue Mammoth Games
Atlanta-based developer of free-to-play fighter Brawlhalla snapped up by the French publisher
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Tom Clancy's The Division hits 20 million players
Ubisoft's title passes milestone as its second anniversary approaches
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Ubisoft acquires 1492 Studio
Publisher picks up Montpellier-based mobile developer behind narrative romance series Is It Love?
Feature
Ubisoft's "Minority Report of programming"
La Forge claims its Commit Assistant AI can cut programming time by 20 per cent by detecting bugs as they're introduced
Feature
“History is our playground”: Bringing Assassin's Creed into the classroom
We speak to Maxime Durand, franchise historian behind the publisher's flagship series, about its new violence-free Discovery Mode
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Assassin's Creed: Origins on track to double Syndicate sales
Ubisoft emphasizes recurrent spending and catalog sales as it beats holiday quarter projections
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Ubisoft withdraws Rainbow Six Siege price hike
UPDATE: Frustrated players mean the Standard Edition will remain at $40, but Gold and Complete will still cost more
Feature
Meet Sam, Ubisoft's personal gaming assistant
Assassin's Creed publisher explains why it's taking a leaf out of Apple and Amazon's book to better serve its players
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Ubisoft boosts mobile presence in China with Ketchapp-Tencent deal
With 980 million monthly active users, social media app Weixin is the gateway to Chinese mobile market
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Adapting a AAA mindset to live ops
Ubisoft's Noémi Rouleau discusses Rainbow Six Siege's shift from boxed product development to games-as-a-service
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Far Cry 5, The Crew delayed as Ubisoft revises profitability targets
The publisher is also moving one of its unannounced titles as it expects better profit for the 2017-18 fiscal year
Opinion
What reaching 25 million users says about Rainbow Six Siege and games-as-a-service
Siege is an outlier, and one the publishing giants can learn from
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People of the Year 2017: Ubisoft Milan and Paris
Davide Soliani in a rollercoaster year for the team behind Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
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"We have to remember it's a game": Mixing anti-cultism and action in Far Cry 5
Creative director Dan Hay discusses reactions to Ubisoft's upcoming shooter and how the Far Cry team touches on topical themes
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Ubisoft looking for mobile AR, blockchain start-ups
Publisher puts out the call for entrepreneurs with ideas for new tech to work six-month stints at Station F incubator in Paris
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Vivendi: No plans for Ubisoft takeover for six months
French media giant still has aspirations to grow in gaming, but says it will limit stake in Assassin's Creed publisher for now
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Ubisoft Berlin to work on Far Cry
New location will initially collaborate with other studios and be headed up by ex-Blue Byte director Istvan Tajnay