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Care For A Ubisoft Fighting Game Or RPG? They’re Coming

3:00AM Stephen Totilo | Ubisoft chairman Yves Guillemot told a group of investors and industry executives in New York today at the BMO Capital Markets digital entertainment conference, that the publisher of Assassin’s Creed is developing games in new genres for the company, including RPGs, sports, music and fighting games. More »
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Ubisoft: Prince Of Persia Could Outperform Pirates Of The Caribbean

2:40AM Brian Crecente | A lot of hopes are riding on the release of the Prince of Persia movie among gamers. Some of us, hurt countless times by bad ports, are finding it hard to open our hearts up once more to a potentially good movie based on a video game. More »
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Ubisoft’s Guillemot Is The 2009 ESA Champion

3:20AM Mike Fahey | The ESA Foundation’s annual Nite to Unite for Kids charity event takes place next month, with Ubisoft chairman and CEO Yves Guillemot receiving top honours as a video game industry visionary. More »
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Ubisoft Honcho Thinks More 2010 Games Will Be Moved Again

5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | There were a ton of games scheduled for this December, then then a big chunk of them moved to early 2010. Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot thinks those games will move again. More »
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Something Assassin’s Creed-y Set For Next Year

7:00AM Stephen Totilo | Fans of Assassin’s Creed like to decode riddles, right? Then they’ll enjoy the cagey way the CEO of Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft described his company’s line-up for next year. More »
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Ubisoft Plans To Have Piracy Solution In Place This Year

5:00AM Brian Crecente | Piracy has taken a hefty toll on Ubisoft, according to company head Yves Guillemot, but the developer and publisher say they are hard at work on a tool that should help reduce the negative impact. More »
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Ubisoft Sees Sharp Drop In Sales, Blames Market, DS Piracy

2:40AM Brian Crecente | Sales for Ubisoft’s second quarter is expected to show a more than 50 percent drop from the same quarter last year, the publisher and developer announced today. More »
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Ubisoft CEO Expects $60 Million Game Budgets Next Gen

8:40AM Michael McWhertor | If Yves Guillemot, chairman and CEO of publisher Ubisoft, is correct, the next generation of video game consoles won’t just look visually on par with current CGI movies, they’ll be outrageously expensive to make—more than double current budgets. More »
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Ubisoft CEO Predicts New Apple Gaming Hardware

3:40AM Stephen Totilo | Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot predicted today not just a coming generation of consoles and a gaming revolution in set-top boxes, but a bigger gaming play by Apple than just the iPhone. More »
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Ubisoft Believes In Price Drops And Fitness Games

3:20AM Mike Fahey | During Ubisoft’s financial earnings call today, CEO Yves Guillemot highlighted the importance of fitness games, suggesting that coming console price drops could drive the growing genre to even greater heights. More »