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| News - Assassin's Creed Is Doing Better Than Expected |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 02-13-2026, 08:55 AM - Forum: Lounge
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News - Assassin's Creed Is Doing Better Than Expected
Business at Ubisoft continues to grow in some areas, as employees protest layoffs and game cancellations. A newly released Ubisoft earning report states that Q3's "overperformance versus expectations was primarily driven by partnerships and the Assassin’s Creed franchise." Net bookings for Q3 stood at €338 million (approximately $401 million), which is 12% higher than the same quarter in last fiscal year. Most of the quarter's income (€297m) came from Ubisoft's back catalog. In particular, Assassin's Creed as a franchise had 28% more total players than the same time last year, thanks in part to free DLC for Assassin's Creed: Mirage and the Switch 2 release of Assassin's Creed: Shadows. The report also names The Division 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora as games that saw significant growth in Q3--in the case of Avatar, it likely saw an influx of players as hype picked up for the latest Avatar film. Overall, 130 million unique players booted up Ubisoft games during the quarter, which the report claims is evidence of "the appeal and strength of the Group’s portfolio of franchises." In January, the publisher closed Ubisoft Halifax, fired 70 employees, and canceled multiple in-development projects. Ubisoft also fired a 12-year veteran without stated cause, though the termination was shortly after he criticized the company's "return-to-work" mandate. The earnings report outlined further plans to "reshape [Ubisoft's] HQ into a leaner and focused organization" via "a voluntary departure plan." In response to the layoffs, 1,200 Ubisoft employees, primarily in France, have gone on a three-day strike.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assass...01-10abi2f
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| News - How A Diablo 2 Game Manual Found New Purpose In Diablo 4's Latest Expansion |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 02-12-2026, 04:25 PM - Forum: Lounge
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News - How A Diablo 2 Game Manual Found New Purpose In Diablo 4's Latest Expansion
Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion goes live in April, and one of its big draws is that players will finally get a chance to explore a location that has only been hinted at for decades. The Skovos Isles were teased in ancient texts--better known as the Diablo 2 game manual--and it's that very same pocket-sized manuscript that inspired Blizzard to create a region that has been left relatively unscathed by the doom and gloom that has befallen Sanctuary over the centuries. "I've been playing Diablo games since the very beginning, so I had that exact same feeling of like, 'Oh my God, it's Skovos. I get to go there. I'm going to meet the Amazons.' I want to do all this stuff--meet the Oracles and so on," associate game director Zaven Haroutunian said to GameSpot. "It's someplace we've never really gone in this series. No game has gone deeper than a scratch into what this place is. So it was a good opportunity to kind of sit back and take stock of the series' entire history." "When we were building Skovos--not just the story part, but the culture there and the characters and the history--we were going through the Diablo 2 manual trying to rediscover what we've said about this place," Haroutunian continued. "We wrote everything down like, 'Oh, we didn't name all the islands. Let's name islands. Let's try to draw these things from the book.' Continue Reading at GameSpot
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-a-...01-10abi2f
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| News - 1,200 Ubisoft Employees Go On Strike |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 02-11-2026, 11:50 PM - Forum: Lounge
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News - 1,200 Ubisoft Employees Go On Strike
Earlier this year, Ubisoft unions called for a strike against the video game publisher, and it's happening right now. Over 1,200 Ubisoft employees have walked out on their jobs in protest over the company's recent restructuring, its plans for future layoffs, and a recent return-to-office mandate. Five Ubisoft unions--STJV, Solidaires Informatique, CGT, CFE-CGC, and Printemps Ecologique--are taking part in the strike, which is primarily taking place in France. However, the three-day strike is also impacting workers at Ubisoft Milan. In January, the unions called for Yves Guillemot to resign from his position as Ubisoft's CEO. Continue Reading at GameSpot
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/1200-u...01-10abi2f
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| News - Control Resonant Does Not Use Generative AI |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 02-11-2026, 07:20 AM - Forum: Lounge
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News - Control Resonant Does Not Use Generative AI
Remedy's next big game, Control Resonant, does not utilize generative AI, according to the company's interim CEO. Markus Mäki said during Remedy's latest earnings briefing that there is "varied interest" in the technology at the company, however. "I'm a big believer in player value--so doing things that really add something to the gameplay experience and player experience. I'm also a big believer in the creative people on our team and that they know the best ways to add that value. There is varied interest in different crafts at Remedy into investigating these AI tools," Maki explained, as reported by Game Developer. He flat-out confirmed that Control Resonant "does not use generative AI content at all." However, he said he's unable to say definitively if future projects could utilize the technology. Continue Reading at GameSpot
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/contro...01-10abi2f
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