Another game studio has appeared in Canada. Among its founders is Mike Laidlaw, who at one time served as creative director of the Dragon Age franchise (Bioware). He was also joined by three people from Ubisoft.

Collaboration between musicians and developers is reaching a new level. Labels have moved from simply licensing songs to adding artists to games and other large-scale collaborations. Warner Music spoke about working with developers and explained why such cooperation is beneficial to both sides.

Ubisoft has published a report for the first half of the fiscal year (ended September 30). During this period, the publisher earned €754 million, while games from the back catalog accounted for almost 100% of revenue. A separate chapter in the document is devoted to changes in the company related to harassment and inclusivity.General figures

Ubisoft continues to rebrand. Now the company is renaming Uplay+ to Ubisoft+ and making it a multiplatform service. Already on November 10, Ubisoft+ will be integrated into Amazon Luna, and a little later into Google Stadia.

Exactly one week later, Ubisoft Club and Uplay services will become a single application — Ubisoft Connect. Crossplay and crossprogression will appear in it.

Ubisoft has faced a patent complaint from the manufacturer of energy Monster Energy. This is what influenced the company’s decision to change the name of the game Gods & Monsters to the less sonorous Immortals: Fenyx Rising.

In the new Ubisoft mobile project, a raised black fist was used to designate a terrorist group. Now he is a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement, and therefore many have accused the French of racism. As a result, the company had to apologize.What happened?

Access to Mixer from Ubisoft Animation Studio has appeared on the GitHub portal. This is a free real-time collaboration tool for the 3D Blender editor.

Ubisoft has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Parsec, which allows “playing in the cloud”. This could be the beginning of the French publisher’s competition with projects like Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now.

A month ago, Take-Two announced that the NBA 2K21 game would cost $10 more for the Xbox Series X and PS5. Not all publishers approve of this approach, but the head of the company has his own opinion.

Changes are coming to Ubisoft. The company’s CEO Yves Guillemot intends to eradicate harassment and sexism within its walls. He is reforming the editorial team after several of them were accused of harassment.

A trial is planned between the giants of the industry. Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against Apple and Google. The reason for the quarrel was the game released by the App Store and Google Play — allegedly plagiarism from Rainbow Six: Siege.

Ubisoft is ready to expand further. The publisher is studying the M&A market and is looking for opportunities to take over gaming companies.

Publishers are leaving GeForce Now again. Nvidia‘s service is about to lose access to Xbox Game Studios, Warner Bros., Codemasters and Klei Entertainment titles.

And more about investments. The studio of Ubisoft natives, Breaking Walls, raised $ 1.75 million to develop the debut game. It will be an adventure game about animals Away: The Survival Series.

The GeForce Now cloud service started unsuccessfully. In the first month, Activision Blizzard and Bethesda left him. But now other major publishers are campaigning for the platform: Epic Games and Ubisoft.

The French publisher Ubisoft bought 75% of Kolibri Games. The latter develops popular idle clickers. 

Gameloft has closed another studio. This time — the British Gameloft UK.

Last Thursday, Ubisoft announced that it will earn much less for the current fiscal year than previously expected. Instead of €2.1 billion, its revenue will be €1.4 billion. This news significantly affected the value of the company’s shares.