Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told Bloomberg about his intention to move into the markets of China, Russia and the Asian region as a whole.

French media conglomerate Vivendi has not yet decided whether to try to take over Ubisoft or sell its shares in the company.

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 turn-based tactics of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle has become the sales leader on the Nintendo Switch console among titles not owned by Nintendo.

Alessandro Canossa, Ubisoft’s leading user research analyst, will speak at White Nights in Moscow. We offer to come up with a question for him. The author of the best will receive a premium ticket to the conference and a book about game analytics.

The French company Ubisoft has announced the creation of two new offices in the Canadian province of Quebec. This will create more than 1,000 new jobs in the region in a ten-year perspective.

The Guillemot family acquired 1.75% of Ubisoft shares for an estimated €112.5 million. The purchase brought the ownership stake of Ubisoft by the Guillemot family to 15.35%, which gives it 20.02% of the shareholders’ votes.

Ubisoft has announced the launch of a new studio in the Swedish capital. The Stockholm office was headed by Patrick Bach, who resigned as CEO of EA DICE at the end of last year.

More than 20 million people have registered in the Rainbow Six Siege tactical shooter for a year and a half of its existence, and the daily audience has grown to 2.3 million thanks to Ubisoft’s strategy for stable support of the project after release.

Gaming sales in the first quarter of 2017 brought Ubisoft $234 million instead of $196.8 million, which is about 19% higher than the projected financial result and 45% more than in the same period last year.

The authors of the series Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry are going to open a second studio in Ukraine. The new unit will be located in Odessa.

The author of the multiplayer slasher For Honor Jason Vandenberg (Jason VandenBerghe) announced the beginning of work in the studio-developer of role-playing MMO ArenaNet as a design director.

As part of the ongoing conflict with Vivendi, the Guillemot family has increased its stake in Ubisoft.

The MMO slasher For Honor of the French company Ubisoft lost 95% of the audience on Steam 4 months after the launch, according to the statistical service GitHyp.

The French publisher Ubisoft reported an increase in operating profit to €237.7 million for the past financial year. This is 40.7% higher than last year’s result.

The French media corporation Vivendi may buy the gaming company Ubisoft, the Reuters news agency reports, citing internal sources.

Ubisoft has announced the opening of offices in Bordeaux, France, and Berlin, the capital of Germany.

The creative director of Assassin’s Creed 3 and Far Cry 4, Alex Hutchinson, has announced his departure from Ubisoft.

Thousands of gamers have promised to leave the online slasher For Honor if its developer Ubisoft does not respond to their complaints. After that, the company satisfied some of the requirements in the new patch.