MAJOR MILESTONES
1986 1990 1994 1996 1998 • The five Guillemot • Release of Zombi for the • Opening of the Montpellier • Opening of a new studio and a • Ubisoft opens new studios brothers create Ubisoft Atari ST, the first game Studio, France. business office in Shanghai, China. in Spain and Italy. Entertainment S.A, an developed internally by educational software and Ubisoft. • Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is listed on video game publishing and the Second Market of the Paris Stock distribution company. Exchange.
• Opening of a studio in Annecy, France.
1988 1992 1995 1997 • Yves Guillemot is • Creation of an internal • Ubisoft’s internal • Opening of the Montreal appointed CEO of the fast- studio in Paris, France. development studio creates Studio in Quebec, Canada. growing company. Rayman® for the Atari • Creation of the first Jaguar. international studio in Bucharest, Romania.
1 MAJOR MILESTONES 2006 • Ubisoft acquires the world-renowned Driver® franchise and integrates 2008 the team of Reflections Interactive. • Ubisoft acquires Hybride • Ubisoft acquires all • Opening of the Kiev Technologies, a Montreal- intellectual property rights studio, Ukraine. • Opening of the Sofia based studio renowned for to the Tom Clancy name Studio, Bulgaria. its expertise in the creation for video games and • Ubisoft acquires Massive 2000 of visual effects for cinema, related products. Entertainment, a Sweden- television, and advertising. based studio renowned • Ubisoft shares transferred • Tom Clancy’s Ghost The studio’s many projects • Opening of the Singapore for its expertise in the RTS to First Market of the Recon® Advanced include such innovative Studio. genre and for the quality of Paris Stock Exchange. Warfighter for the Xbox films as 300, Frank Miller’s its innovative proprietary 360 sets the Ubisoft record Sin City, and the Spy Kids • Ubisoft acquires Digital technologies, as well as the • Acquisition of Red for selling more games in its series. Kids (Nagoya, Japan), real-time strategy brand Storm Entertainment first week than any previous developer of several World In Conflict®. in Morrisville, North release and wins Best • Ubisoft acquires successful titles for Carolina, USA. Game of the Year at the Gameloft’s video game Ubisoft’s Petz® line of BAFTA (British Academy development studio games. • Launch of the ubi.com of Film and Television Arts) in Pune in the state of online video game portal. Awards ceremony. Maharashtra, India.
2003 2005 2007 2009 • Ubisoft celebrates its • The first Ubisoft Campus • In less than four weeks, • Ubisoft acquires • Ubisoft announces the 100-millionth game sold. is created in Montreal to Assassin’s Creed® records SunFlowers, owner of opening of a new studio in encourage video game more than two and a half the Anno® brand, one of Toronto, Canada. training programs in million units in sell-through the best-selling strategy Canada. sales worldwide, and is the franchises in the German fastest-selling new video market. game intellectual property in the US and the UK ever. • Opening of Ubisoft Digital Arts, a new production • Opening of the Chengdu center specializing in the Studio in the Sichuan creation of digital cinema province, China. content. 2 MAJOR MILESTONES
2015 • The Futuroscope Rabbids® Ride receives the Thea 2017 Award for Outstanding • Ubisoft acquires • In Q1 of calendar 2017, Achievement at the Themed Growtopia™, a Free-To- For Honor® and Tom Entertainment Association Play game supported Clancy’s Ghost Recon® (TEA) Summit in March 2015. by a highly engaged Wildlands are respectively community of more than first and second best- • Hungry Shark® mobile 20 million registered users. sellers in the whole industry. 2013 game hits 100 million 2010 • Ubisoft continues to downloads. • Ubisoft expands its • Ubisoft announces the • Ubisoft acquires Nadeo, a establish itself in the mobile presence in the UK creation of four new Paris-based studio, creator space with the acquisition • Ubisoft acquires Ivory with the acquisition of studios: in Berlin (Germany), of TrackMania®, the cult of Future Games of London Tower, the French Lyon- FreeStyleGames. The Bordeaux (France), multiplayer car racing and Digital Chocolate based studio behind The studio is now known as Saguenay (Canada) and video game. Barcelona. Crew®. Ubisoft Leamington. Stockholm (Sweden).
2011 2016 • Ubisoft acquires Owlient, a • Tom Clancy’s The • Tom Clancy’s The • Ubisoft announces the Paris-based studio renowned Division®, Far Cry® Primal, Division® records the opening of two new studios: for its expertise in creating 2014 and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow biggest first week ever for a Ubisoft Philippines and Free-To-Play games. • Watch Dogs® becomes Six® Siege rank in the new video game franchise, Ubisoft Belgrade (Serbia). Ubisoft’s fastest-selling top five of sales during grossing more than $330 • Ubisoft acquires RedLynx, game ever in its first week, the first semester of 2016. million worldwide in its first • Ubisoft acquires Ketchapp. the famous developer of the selling more than 4 million Hungry Shark® World is the five days. With this addition, Ubisoft Trials® game series, based in copies, and breaking second-best mobile game expands its footprint in Helsinki, Finland. industry records for week launch in 2016 with 10 • Assassin’s Creed® digital and mobile gaming one sales of a new IP. To million downloads, making becomes one of the most and becomes the fourth- • Ubisoft creates its own date, the game has sold it Ubisoft’s best mobile popular video game largest mobile game film division, Ubisoft Motion more than 10 million copies. game launch. The Hungry franchises of all time, with publisher when measured Pictures, in charge of Shark series hits 250 million more than 110 million copies by number of downloads. adapting in-house franchises downloads worldwide. sold to date. into movies and TV series. 3 MAJOR MILESTONES
2020 2018 • Ubisoft announces the • Ubisoft announces the • Ubisoft and Tencent acquisition of Kolibri acquisition of two studios: team up to bring Ubisoft’s Games, strengthening 1492 Studio and Blue top titles to China to the company’s “idle” Mammoth Games. significantly accelerate the games portfolio. reach of Ubisoft franchises • Ubisoft announces the in China in the coming • Ubisoft announces the expansion of its creative years. opening of a new studio force with the opening in Da Nang, Vietnam, of three new studios: in • Far Cry® 5 becomes the that will be dedicated to Mumbai (India), Odesa fastest-selling title in the creating original games (Ukraine) xwand Winnipeg franchise’s history. for mobile and social- (Canada). media platforms.
2019 • Rainbow Six Siege hits the • Ubisoft acquires i3D.net, a 45 million players milestone. leader in hosting solutions for the gaming industry, as • Anno 1800 becomes the well as Green Panda Games, fastest selling opus of the a leading developer of Anno series to date, with 4 hyper-casual games. times more sales during its first week of launch than • Ubisoft announces a Anno 2205. partnership with Google Stadia, a new cloud-based • Far Cry 5 becomes gaming platform. Ubisoft’s best-selling console game of this generation.
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