Nearly five years in the making, Netflix has announced it has greenlit a live-action adaptation of Ubisoft's hit video game franchise Assassin's Creed, as part of the streaming giant's 2020 agreement with Ubisoft.
A closer look at the sales data shows that Assassin's Creed Shadows accomplished a monumental sales feat.
Whoever runs the official X account for Ubisoft's latest video game, Assassin's Creed Shadows, deserves a very nice raise.
Assassin's Creed Shadows is doing numbers, giving Ubisoft a much-needed win.
With Shadows, Assassin's Creed is back. We just hope that this momentum continues.
Assassin's Creed Shadows is the latest entry in the long-running Assassin's Creed video game franchise and finally brings players to feudal Japan.
Yves Guillemot, the CEO of French gaming giant Ubisoft appears to have cooled the rhetoric behind the company’s NFT gaming project Quartz, noting in a recent interview that it was merely in “research mode” concerning Web3 tech integrations. It’s a relatively different take from other Ubisoft execs in the past, including chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet who in October stated that blockchain integrations will enable users to own and earn content and the firm wants to “be one of the key players here.” During a Sept. 10 interview with gamesindustry.biz, Guillemot appears to be walking some of those comments back, emphasizing that at this stage, Ubisoft is primarily looking to discover how NFTs can be applied to games and whether they will benefit gamers or not. “We are very much ...
Tech venture capital firm White Star Capital has secured $120 million in funding for its second Digital Asset Fund (DAF II) to invest in crypto networks and early-stage blockchain and Web3 businesses. The fund is primarily backed by game publishing giant Ubisoft and will take a particular focus on decentralized finance (DeFi) and gaming. It will invest as much as $7 million in each of 20-25 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia. The firm’s increased attention to DeFi, Web3, and blockchain-based technology suggests that it will begin to support companies that utilize or develop Metaverse solutions as well. This would bring it into the space in which Animoca Brands has carved out a neat corner for itself. White Star’s previous investments from its first DAF in 2020 include Stacks-base...