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Ubisoft is reportedly seeking to acquire Arkane Lyon following an extension of its consultation period with Xbox.

“At least two” other companies have also pitched themselves as the studio’s possible new owners.

Ubisoft is reportedly among multiple suitors preparing bids to try and purchase French developer Arkane Lyon, makers of the Dishonored series and the upcoming Marvel’s Blade, from Microsoft in the wake of the first-party publisher’s ongoing Xbox “reset.”

Months after Microsoft announced that Arkane, maker of Dishonored and Deathloop, would be among the studios it is divesting as part of Xbox’s current “reset,” the tech giant still hasn’t been able to settle on a buyer. Ubisoft is among the companies currently interested in buying the studio and potentially helping it complete work on…

Live service, gacha and freemium games are among the top-earning in the industry. With the likes of Fortnite and Roblox especially popular among children, international regulation boards have begun crafting new ways to stymie predatory monetization practices. Last week, the EU announced it will be taking actions against ten specific companies, including Activision, Riot and…

Xbox has launched another Free Play Days promotion, but this weekend’s offering is notably broader than usual. In partnership with Ubisoft, Microsoft is giving all Xbox users temporary access to five major games without requiring a Game Pass subscription. The promotion includes Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Far Cry 6, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Skull and Bones,…

Ubisoft has announced that its Creative House 2 business unit, which houses Tom Clancy’s The Division, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell alongside “new original IP including March of Giants”, will henceforth be known as Massive Entertainment, adopting the 29-year-old brand of the Swedish studio that originated the Divison franchise. That original studio remains part of…

Ubisoft seemingly wants to call its new push into genAI gaming “Motherbrain,” after the rogue AI intelligence that tries to weaponize the titular Metroids in Nintendo’s long-running sci-fi horror series. That’s according to a report from Game File which recently discovered a handful of trademark applications filed by the Assassin’s Creed publisher that all use…

A new report claims that Mario + Rabbids developer Ubisoft Milan was trying to make a Zelda spin-off starring Ganondorf as the lead. But the project ended up going nowhere, leading to some key Ubisoft devs leaving and possibly putting an end to Nintendo and Ubisoft’s partnership.

Ubisoft Milan once pitched Nintendo on an original Zelda spinoff starring a previously unknown protagonist, according to asked Ubisoft to replace the character with one of the most recognizable villains in video game history, Ganondorf