Tag: Yves Guillemot
Ubisoft Employee Shames Gamers for Mocking Them Amid Business Woes and Scandals
Ubisoft is in trouble, and it wants you to know that you’re the bad guy. At least, one of its employees does. Stevy Chassard, Ubisoft’s monetization director, posted (and later deleted) a message on his LinkedIn account chastising anyone who’s cheering on Ubisfot’s downward spiral – the fa...
Read MoreUbisoft Backs Off Woke Stance Amid Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delay and Poor Star Wars Outlaws Sales
Ubisoft appears to be in a lot of trouble, with the video game studio taking hits from all sides and seemingly admitting defeat. And I don’t just mean their game sales – they’re walking away from their woke agenda, at least publicly. The first domino to fall was the reveal that Star Wars Outla...
Read MoreUbisoft Issues Apology to Japanese Gamers for Assassin’s Creed Shadows
The pressure over Assassin’s Creed Shadows has gotten to Ubisoft. Since the game’s trailer debuted, Ubisoft has been inundated with complaints from gamers, mostly those in Japan, over its disrespect for Japanese history and culture. The highest-profile issue is the use of Yasuke, a historical b...
Read MoreUbisoft CEO Says Remakes Will Modernize Old Assassin’s Creed Games
Ubisoft isn’t done fiddling with Assassin’s Creed. In a recent interview with Ubisoft’s communications director, Lucy O’Brien, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot talked about the video game developer’s plans for one of their premier franchises. In addition to having “Assassin’s Creed games co...
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