Tag archive: Yves Guillemot

Ubisoft's heavy presence on day 1 of the Wii in 2006 helped it become one of the console's most successful publishers. Yves Guillemot hopes to repeat that success by heavily supporting the Wii U at launch, the CEO said in an interview with Gamasutra. More interesting, however, is Guillemot's thoughts on the next generation. While it's long been rumored that Sony and Microsoft hope to wait until 2014 to release new… Read More

Ubisoft had a good sales year, but its finances don't show it. The French publisher posted a net loss of $74 million on sales of $1.4 billion for the last year–its second yearly loss in a row. However, out of the financial wreckage, CEO Yves Guillemot gave us a few hints at Ubisoft's strategy going forward. The plan: yearly sequels to major franchises, more casual games, and a secret PC game. Guillemot is also very excited… Read More

Games creation company Ubisoft has announced that it’s acquired visual effects company Hybride Technologies, the Canadian company that added visual effects to movies like 300, Sin City and the Spy Kids series. Ubisoft plans to share technology to up the quality of effects for games and, through Hybride, to hopefully brings its intellectual properties to the screen. Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft’s CEO, said: “The acquisition… Read More

Ubisoft and Touchstone Television today announced plans to develop and publish a video game based on the popular television series Lost. The game will debut sometime in 2007 for home and portable consoles as well as the PC. The game will be developed by Ubisoft's Montreal studio. No other details were released. “Many of us on Lost have been hardcore gamers for years and the chance to work with Ubisoft, a company behind some… Read More

Set on a beach with Massive Attack spinning the decks, X03 delivered a diverse range of announcements, from two key new products (Codemasters' exclusive Race Driver 2, Digital Illusions' RalliSport Challenge 2) and a partnership with Unreal developer Epic Games, to a new branding initiative focusing on the social aspect of gaming and efforts to build the Xbox Live user base. Starting with the games, Microsoft welcomed the usual… Read More