Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six Now Operated by Vantage Studios, Ubisoft and Tencent's New Business Group With Full Autonomy on Creative Direction and Business Plans

Ubisoft's 3 biggest franchises — Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six — are present tally by Vantage Studios, the newly-named abstracted concern entity formed by Ubisoft with a 25% involvement from Chinese elephantine Tencent.

The Vantage Studios sanction was shared internally today, the archetypal authoritative time of the business' operation, aft having been voted upon by the group's 2,300 employees, IGN understands.

Dubbed arsenic the archetypal Ubisoft 'Creative House,' Vantage Studios volition tally its 3 franchises with what employees wrong the company's Montréal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Barcelona, and Sofia studios person been told is implicit originative and concern control.

As antecedently announced, Vantage Studios volition beryllium led by co-CEOs Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot. The determination comes up of Ubisoft's upcoming €1.16 cardinal (~$1.25 billion) woody with Tencent being completed.

The past fewer years person been pugnacious for Ubisoft. Aside from the palmy motorboat of Assassin's Creed Shadows, the institution has different suffered a fig of high-profile flops, layoffs, workplace closures, and crippled cancellations, and determination is tremendous unit connected it to win aft the company's stock terms deed an historical low.

The Assassin's Creed franchise is, arsenic ever, enjoying a bustling play of releases, with the archetypal enlargement for Assassin's Creed Shadows launched past month, and Saudi Arabia-funded DLC for Assassin's Creed Mirage coming soon. A highly-anticipated remake of pirate introduction Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remains unannounced, but is wide expected to get successful the not-too-distant future.

Ubisoft's ongoing enactment for Rainbow Six Siege aside, little is known of the company's different contiguous plans, though a large caller introduction successful the Far Cry bid has reportedly been brewing for immoderate time.

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