Ubisoft does not want to take risks, as well as disappoint players. Therefore, she plans to interact as closely as possible with the players, starting from the earliest stages of creating the game.

France is the seventh largest gaming market in the world. By the end of the year, spending by French players will reach $3.1 billion, Newzoo predicts.

Analysts from Sensor Tower made the top 10 countries in terms of App Store spending per capita. It turned out that no country in the world can compare with Japan in this indicator.

Quantic Dream studio filed a lawsuit against the French publications Le Monde and Mediapart. The reason was articles about difficult working conditions and a bad atmosphere in the team of a gaming company.

The French team Dontnod Entertainment, known for the games Remember Me and Life Is Strange, announced the registration of documents for the launch of the IPO. The studio’s management plans to raise money to develop cooperation with publishers and launch more ambitious games into production.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot shared a fantastic plan. He intends to increase the audience of the company’s games 10 times within 10 years — from 500 million to 5 billion people.

The French gaming company Ubisoft has acquired a local studio 1492 Studio, known for a series of episodic dating simulators Is It Love? for mobile platforms.

The French mobile publisher Gameloft is gradually changing the business development model. The growth of revenue from the sale of titles is slowing down, so the company’s interests have focused on increasing revenue from the advertising segment and producing more casual titles.

The independent Association of European game publishers Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) has started keeping official records of digital copies of video games sold along with retail. France became the pilot territory for the implementation of the project.

Half of the employees of the French studio Eugen Systems went on strike. The developers accused the company’s managers of violating labor laws. 21 out of 44 Eugen Systems employees joined the campaign.

Ubisoft and Tencent have become strategic partners. As part of the cooperation, Tencent will release a number of mobile titles of the Ubisoft subsidiary of Ketchapp Games publishing house in the Weixin version of the WeChat social network for the domestic market.

The French media corporation Vivendi will not try to absorb Ubisoft for at least the next 6 months. This is stated in Vivendi’s financial report for the 3rd quarter of 2017.

Ubisoft will buy up to 4 million of its own shares to prevent its takeover by the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

Ubisoft shareholders approved by a majority vote the decision of CEO Yves Guillemot to appoint two independent directors to the company’s management board.

The developer and publisher of the Syberia series has officially launched a new brand. Under the name Microïds Indie, the French company plans to launch projects of independent studios on the market.

The French company Bulkypix, which was engaged in the publication of mobile games, is in the process of liquidation. Developers who have signed contracts with her cannot receive money from the company.

A full-fledged MMO is still a rare guest on mobile platforms. But, most likely, there will be much more of them in the near future. In the meantime, every novelty is an event.

Small studios cannot afford to save on marketing. Such conclusions were reached by the French Association of Video game Developers Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo based on the results of a study of the local industry.

Despite the scandals that have recently plagued the French company, its revenues are growing. From July to September, Gameloft earned a solid sum of €63.3 million.