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Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has declared the current financial year is "a turning point" for the publisher after higher-than-expected Q4 sales. The exec said the company’s decision to strengthen its core gamer offering, venture into free-to-play and grow its online revenues is paying off. His comments follow today’s announcement of …
Read More »Ubisoft reports £26m loss before major games hit
Publisher raises full-year sales forecasts to £1bn
Read More »Ubisoft: Next-gen will have fewer triple-A games
Free-to-play mobile games enable developers to test out new ideas for other platforms, says Guillemot
Read More »Guillemot: New consoles enable more creativity
Consumers 'are more willing to invest in original content at the start of a new generation'
Read More »Digital drives Ubisoft Q1 sales to $160m
Online sales jump by 127 per cent to offset falling retail revenues
Read More »E3 2012: Ubisoft excited by ‘very strong’ E3
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says E3 remains as important as ever, despite fresh criticism over its relevancy from some corners of the industry. Event organisers the ESA was forced to defend E3 last month following criticism of its continued focus on the struggling traditional boxed games market. The trade body …
Read More »Ubisoft to capitalize on next-gen, free-to-play
CEO Yves Guillemot provides guidance for the coming year
Read More »GDC: Yves Guillemot’s Child of Eden brainwave
Did the Ubisoft CEO conceive the idea of Kinect as a Child of Eden controller? Tommy Francois believes so
Read More »Celebrate 25 years of Ubisoft with MCV
Ubisoft, one of the world’s premier video game publishers is 25 years old, and MCV has put together a special magazine to celebrate. MCV subscribers received their copies of the magazine last week – but from today everyone can read the 24-page supplement online or download it via the MCV …
Read More »Ubisoft joins free-to-play rush with dev buyout
CEO Yves Guillemot tells Develop the firm is prepared to buy again in new online push
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