Vanessa Meza

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October 6, 2011

History

Ubisoft was founded in 1986 in France, by the five Guillemot brothers.

Yves Guillemot^ , made deals with companies such as Electronic Arts, Sierra On-Line and MicroProse to sell their games across France

In 1994 Ubisoft opened their headquarters in Montreuil, France.

Then in 1996

Ubisoft became a

publicly traded

company and

expanded around

the globe, opening

offices in Shanghai

and Montreal.

In 2000, they acquired Red Stone Entertainment

In February of 2001 they acquired Blue

Byte Software

In March of 2001 they also acquired The Learning Company Entertainment division which gave them the rights to the games such as Myst and Prince of Persia series

Ubisoft concentrated on getting on to online games such as Uru: Ages Beyond the Myst, Matrix Online and EverQuest. But then in 2004 they backed out of the online portion of Myst and backed out the Matrix.

Then they bought

Wolfpack Studios, which

was the developer of the

game Shadowbane.

Ubisoft is famous for their game series Assassin Creed and Just Dance series.

Upcoming games this year

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

RocksmithRayman: Orgins

Just Dance 3

Might & Magic: Heroes VI

Michael Jackson Experience

The Black Eyed Peas Experience

I’ am Alive

The Five Brothers

Yves Guillemot

Claude Guillemot

Michael Guillemot

Christian Guillemot

Gerard Guillemot

Economic Impact

Ubisoft has helped boost the economy and helped many people find jobs by hiring over 1,700 employees and artists in Montreal.

Ubisoft’s office in Montreal, has become one of the largest in the world. Attracting other gaming companies such as EA games, THQ & Warner Brothers to set up offices in Montreal.

Global Culture

Ubisoft has offices all over the world in such places as Europe, United States, Canada, India, China, Singapore, Australia.

In 2007 Ubisoft became the third independent publisher worldwide (excluding Asia).

When “Just Danse 2” was relesed it sold over two million copies worldwide, even though music based games are declining.

Future Development

Ubisoft plans to further develop their gaming franchise Anno (1404, 1503, 1602,1701) 2070. This game(s) consisted of City-building and Real-time strategy gameplay elements.  

Ubisoft is also planning to invest another 60 million dollars into making videos games for such consoles as Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

Already they’ve invested 20 to 30 million to make game for the consoles.

My Personal Opinion

I think Ubisoft is a good company that makes good quailty games.

I think Ubisoft is helping are economy by hiring many graphic artists in Montreal.

They have good games.

Sources

http://www.ubi.com/ENCA/default.aspx http://www.1up.com/news/ubisoft-dance-sells-

2-million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft_Montreal http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubisoft-Game-

Development-Will-Cost-60-Million-In-the-Future-114487.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_2070