Yves Guillemot: Last News

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “Star Wars Outlaws” and “Assassin’s Creed” game publisher Ubisoft has broken its silence regarding a potential sale of the company without explicitly confirming one way or another if it’s in active negotiations. Last week, Bloomberg reported that Tencent and the family of Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot were exploring a buyout of Ubisoft amid the delay of “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” and the bumpy August release of “Star Wars Outlaws.” VIP+ Analysis: With ‘Star Wars Outlaws,’ Disney Tests Gamers’ Appetite for Hollywood IP Tencent and the Guillemot family currently own 10% and 20%, respectively, of Ubisoft voting rights.

Lexi Carson After spending more than 30 years at Ubisoft, Cécile Russeil has been promoted to executive vice president, starting Wednesday. In her elevated role, Russeil will bring her experience in the company to lead Ubisoft’s functions and teams. She will also be in charge of communications, corporate affairs, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, human resources, and legal.

Ubisoft has delayed Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, quietly confirming a 2023-2024 release window in a first-quarter fiscal sales report.While the report highlights a “slightly better than expected” performance for the company, the rest of the report details a significant delay to Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora.While Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora was originally meant to launch in 2022 and coincide with the release of James Cameron‘s upcoming film Avatar: The Way of Water, Ubisoft has shared that it will now launch in either 2023 or 2024.On the delay, Ubisoft shared that while it is still committed to creating “a cutting-edge immersive experience that takes full advantage of next-gen technology,” the studio needs more time to do that.“While this additional development time is a reflection of the current ongoing constraints on productions across the industry, we are hard at work to design the most efficient working conditions to ensure both flexibility,” explained Ubisoft.In the report, Ubisoft added that it has also delayed a “smaller unannounced premium game” to 2023-2024.“The new high-value mobile partnership for one of our brands reflects the powerful appeal of our brands for the fast-growing AAA mobile segment,” shared Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot. “It also provides our teams with more time to fully realize their creative vision and deliver high-quality experiences for our fans, while at the same time increasing our visibility for both 2022-23 and 2023-24.”Earlier in the week, developers at Ubisoft discussed how “entitled gamers” make launching new games an unpleasant experience.

Ubisoft has updated fans on the development of its upcoming pirate adventure game, Skull & Bones.During a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday (July 22), CEO Yves Guillemot said that he is “very happy” about the ongoing development for Skull & Bones – as well as the delayed Gods & Monsters.“For the two games, Gods & Monsters and Skull & Bones, they are well on the way and they are performing very well, so we are very happy with the way it’s going on those two games,” he said, as reported by VGC.According to Twinfinite, chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet also noted that Skull & Bones is scheduled for release during the company’s 2021 fiscal year, which runs from April 2021 to March 2022.The two executives, however, did not speak on the