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Ubisoft Fears Assassin's Hit Over Falling Sales

Ubisoft's battle to maintain its share price has become almost as epic as its "Assassin's Creed" franchise as the video game giant confronts stuttering sales, buyout rumours, and now a strike that starts Tuesday.

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Despite lukewarm reception, Star Wars Outlaws is the third best-selling game of August 2024 in the US, per Circana report

Despite lukewarm reception, Star Wars Outlaws is the third best-selling game of August 2024 in the US, per Circana report

Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws debuted in third place for August 2024, per Circana's sales report.

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Steam makes a valuable change to how it sells games, and the whole world will benefit

Steam makes a valuable change to how it sells games, and the whole world will benefit

Valve has got ahead of the State of California's new law and is now telling customers exactly what they're buying.

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Arkane lead says Marvel's Blade will "explore uncharted dimensions of our art" building on Dishonored, Prey, Deathloop, and yes, even Redfall

Art and co-creative director Sébastien Mitton reflects on 25 years of Arkane

Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred arrives on Nvidia Geforce Now today — but we still can't play on Xbox Cloud Gaming

Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred arrives on Nvidia GeForce Now today, along with Battle.net game syncing, as we lament the lack of Activision Blizzard games on the Xbox cloud.

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This hand-crafted puppet of Nix is so cute it makes me want a Star Wars Outlaws movie

Lightning Cosplay turned him from pixels to plush in just four weeks.

Here's another headache for Ubisoft: Lawsuit alleges it illegally shared Ubisoft Store customer data with Meta

The lawsuit claims Ubisoft undisclosed use of Meta's Pixel analytics tool is a violation of several statutes.

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Ubisoft's grudging return to Steam continues as Assassin's Creed Valhalla finally gets achievements 2 years after launch

Ubisoft's grudging return to Steam continues as Assassin's Creed Valhalla finally gets achievements 2 years after launch

Assassin's Creed games are making their return to Steam, starting with Mirage this month

Assassin's Creed games are making their return to Steam, starting with Mirage this month

Assassin's Creed Mirage is coming to Steam this month.

Ubisoft is Considering Taking Buyout Option to Go Private Amid Struggles

Ubisoft is Considering Taking Buyout Option to Go Private Amid Struggles

Ubisoft released a statement acknowledging recent reports of a potential buyout amid its continued struggles in the video games industry.

Amid whispers of Ubisoft potentially being bought out, the Assassin's Creed developer says it reviews "strategic options" regularly

Amid whispers of Ubisoft potentially being bought out, the Assassin's Creed developer says it reviews "strategic options" regularly

Ubisoft isn't confirming anything either way right now

Data Sheet: Everything is permitted

Data Sheet: Everything is permitted

Ubisoft sale, Meta movies, Texas TikTok, Google news battle, EU privacy. Plus: Apple Intelligence and “Salt Typhoon” cyberattacks.

Guillemot Brothers Ltd, Tencent Reportedly Consider Ubisoft Buyout, Causes Shares to Skyrocket

Guillemot Brothers Ltd, Tencent Reportedly Consider Ubisoft Buyout, Causes Shares to Skyrocket

Guillemot Brothers Ltd and Tencent are reportedly considering a buyout for Ubisoft following the latter's recent struggles, causing shares to skyrocket.

Ubisoft shares jump following reports of Tencent, Guillemot family considering buyout

Ubisoft shares jump following reports of Tencent, Guillemot family considering buyout

Shares of Ubisoft surged more than 30% Friday, following reports that Tencent and the Guillemot family are considering a buyout of the video game maker

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As Ubisoft struggles and shareholders sweat, Tencent and the Guillemot family are reportedly looking at a buyout

Nothing is carved in stone, but one possible outcome of talks would be to take Ubisoft private.

As Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows add to a 54% Ubisoft stock drop, Tencent and the Guillemot brothers reportedly consider a full buyout

After hitting all-time highs just a few years ago, Ubisoft shares recently dropped to a ten-year low

Windows Central

Ubisoft may be circling the drain, a Chinese mega-publisher is reportedly considering purchasing the Assassin's Creed makers

The Guillemot family and Chinese conglomerate Tencent may be teaming up to take over Ubisoft, as the company's value has fallen significantly throughout 2024.

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Black Ops 6 to launch into NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service on release day

Nvidia announced 22 new games hitting GeForce Now in October, including the latest Call of Duty by Treyarch Studios.

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The Guardian - UK

‘We were only slightly influenced by the Cantina music’: the underworld sounds of Star Wars Outlaws

Cody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys’ chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear

Ubisoft Releases 'Star Wars Outlaws' Update 1.2 to Fix a Number of Launch Issues

The new patch released for Star Wars Outlaws will address a number of complaints players had when the game was launched.

Star Wars Outlaws' hectic speeder wipeouts won't happen as often with its major new update

Stealth has also been tweaked, along with many other fixes and changes.

Ubisoft starts its Star Wars Outlaws redemption tour with a patch addressing every single annoyance I had: a massive stealth revamp, speeder bike fixes, and more

I am not kidding when I say the ultrawide FOV tweak is massive

Fortnite isn't the future, it's an anomaly, and Tim Sweeney is just another CEO wrongly predicting the death of big singleplayer games

Singleplayer and multiplayer games will continue to coexist, just as they always have.

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Pushing Buttons: At Tokyo Game Show, I saw the Japanese games scene I grew up with is still live and kicking

In this week’s newsletter: Konami, cute RPGs, weird but wonderful indie games – everything I saw at Japan’s biggest gaming convention

New California law inspired by Ubisoft and Sony requires retailers to warn consumers that the digital games they buy can be taken away at any time

It won't stop your games from being taken away, but at least you won't be able to say you weren't warned.

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