Ubisoft has lost another veteran. Jean Guesdon, who has worked in the company for over 17 years, announced his departure from the company.

The annual Grammy Music Awards were held in Los Angeles. This year, for the first time, the organizers presented an award in the nomination “Best Soundtrack to a video game”. It went to the composer Stephanie Economou, who created the music for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök.

Ubisoft may be preparing to close the Polish branch after 15 years of operation in the country. This is reported by Marcin Kosman, CEO of the better gaming agency. gaming agency.

On January 27, a strike took place in the Ubisoft studio in Paris. It involved 40 employees or about 15% of the staff.

Last week, Yves Guillemot made an unfortunate statement. In a letter to employees, he indicated that the fate of Ubisoft is in the hands of developers, and urged developers to give their all. Now the head of the publishing house has apologized for incorrectly chosen words.

The year 2023 started unsuccessfully for Ubisoft. Against the background of recent problems, the capitalization of the French publisher sank to € 2.67 billion. Now it is once again priced cheaper than CD PROJEKT.

Yesterday’s announcement by Ubisoft about changing financial plans and canceling three games had a negative impact on the company. On the morning of January 12, the value of its shares fell by 21% to €18.83 apiece. They haven’t traded so cheaply since September 2015.

Insider Jeff Grubb claims that Ubisoft is trying to sell the company. According to him, the French publisher approached several similar companies with a deal proposal, but they “just laughed.”

On January 11, Ubisoft released a report in which it spoke about the difficult financial situation. The French company said that the sales of new products did not meet expectations, because of poor macroeconomic conditions and changes in the gaming industry. Against this background, Ubisoft decided to make several adjustments to its plans.

The French publisher announced that the cumulative downloads of the Hungry Shark series of games have crossed the billion mark.

A representative of Ubisoft in a comment for RBC called the news about the complete departure of the French company from Russia “rumors”.

The departure of Ubisoft from Russia was announced by the group “Collectors of video games”, created by Sergey Epishin, the head of M.Game.

Ubisoft reported yesterday for the first half of its fiscal year (it started in April 2022, and will end in March 2023). Officially, the company reports success, but its reports speak of big problems.

The fact that the company has “low expectations” from the game, writes journalist Stephen Totilo from Axios, citing his sources.

This statement was made by Yves Guillemot in an interview with the French edition of La Presse. He stressed that game development is a complex process and from time to time there is “strong tension” between developers.

Despite the fact that not all of the company’s games are available on Steam.

According to The Gamer, the developers do not want to work together with Jonathan Dumont, the creative director of Assassin’s Creed about feudal Japan. Two years ago, he was accused of harassment.

A group of activists acknowledged that Ubisoft has taken a number of measures to improve the corporate culture, but noted that the changes did not affect all studios and not all departments. In addition, the publisher has not yet fired some top managers who were accused of harassment in 2020.

Last night it became known that Tencent is going to invest €300 million in Guillemot Brothers Limited, a company owned by the founders of Ubisoft. As a result of the deal, the Chinese giant will not only receive 49.9% of the shares of this company, but will also increase its stake directly in Ubisoft to 9.99%.