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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As part of the company’s announcement of financial results for its just-concluded fiscal year, Ubisoft has announced release windows for its full line-up through end of April 2010.