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But everything's going to be all right, according to CEO Yves Guillemot. The company should still hit €1 billion sales for the full year as the next six months are set to be "significantly more favourable, with a strong return to growth and profitability".

By x3sphere “The acquisition of Nadeo is an important step in our expansion within the on-line gaming sector”, said Yves Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer of Ubisoft. “Through Nadeo, Ubisoft will gain an expert team, one of the best on-line technologies around as well as a flagship multiplayer ga...

Ubisoft has bought Parisian developer Nadeo, known best for the car-jumping and route-planning TrackMania series of games. Nadeo has only 10 employees, but TrackMania has around 700,000 unique users each month online, if Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot is to be believed.

By James Fudge He will not get a title belt though, but maybe a nice plaque. The ESA Foundation will honor Yves Guillemot, chairman and chief executive officer of Ubisoft, as the 2009 ESA Champion at this year’s Nite to Unite for Kids event. The annual black-tie gala will take place on Tuesday, October 13, 2...

By Dylan Duarte It’s solid logic - a slew of high profile games got pushed back to a less busy release window, just to make Q1 2010 a really busy release window. The funny thing about Guillemot saying this is that a good number of Ubisoft titles have been pushed back from this holiday season to early next year.

Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot and EA Games president Frank Gibeau have both praised Sony for cutting the price of the PlayStation 3, making the home console an attractive prospect for the mass market consumer. It's exceptional news, actually. I think the machine is a great machine, with th...

By Mabie A. Nintendo, for their part, has committed themselves to helping out Ubisoft. Guillemot reveals, "Nintendo has been able to slow down piracy a lot in Japan. They are now putting pressure to make sure it decreases in many other countries." He remains optimistic, "We think we will be able to solv...

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has said the company is working on something to combat PC game piracy "starting next year and probably one game this year". Speaking in a conference call to investors (thanks Kotaku), Guillemot also said the DS piracy situation was improving.

Splinter Cell and Red Steel 2 needed time. The team was asking that they couldn't be with the level of quality on all the maps and all the game for the end of the year, so they had asked for more time to be able to come with a better product, for both of those games," Guillemot explained.

By Gus Mastrapa Image courtesy Ubisoft “We are disappointed that we have to postpone the release of several major games but we consider that this choice is the best one in the long-term interests of Ubisoft,” CEO Yves Guillemot said in the statement. 

Yves Guillemot, chairman and CEO of Ubisoft, talks about the next generation of video game consoles.

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Lastly, Ubisoft's foremost executive addressed the publisher's ambitions in the massively multiplayer online gaming space. According to Guillemot, Ubisoft was outbid by Atari for Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios last year, but the publisher ...

 UK Speaking to CNBC, Ubisoft chairman and CEO Yves Guillemot has said he believes development costs of top tier titles will approximately double in the next generation, jumping from $20-$30 million in this generation to a staggering $60 million. ...

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The next generation is going to be so powerful that playing a game is going to be the equivalent of playing a CGI movie today," Guillemot told CNBC. Right now, of course, games for Xbox 360 and PS3 cost between USD 20 million and USD 30 million to make, and look like Saturday morning cartoons dr...

Yves Guillemot, big boss man of French-based publisher Ubisoft, has expressed his desire for this round of console hardware to continue as long as possible. It sounds like there's a lot of power under the hood of 360 and PS3 that's yet to be fully ...

An anonymous reader writes "Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot tells CNBC that he believes the next generation of video game systems isn't as far away as the public has been led to believe. Guillemot noted that public demand for the best machine possible, ...

 CA says Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft chairman-CEO, who co-founded the company in 1986. Cameron and the company began work on the game version of "Avatar" 2½ years ago, an incredibly long gestation period for a film-based game. The long development window was ...

Next generation, estimates Guillemot, top tier games will likely average $60 million to make. The ramifications for that are unknown. It could mean higher retail prices or lower return on investment. Ubisoft hopes to supplement the cost by reusing ...

 CA The game, which first made its appearance at E3 last week, will utilize a virtual coach to help motivate the user, and Ubisoft claims Your Shape will have "more exercises than any other fitness game." Ubisoft chief Yves Guillemot said in a statement, ...

Ubisoft, at its Monday briefing, said its camera would be the first to release, although that's mostly because it's a straightforward 2-D camera, much like Sony's existing Eye. However, Ubisoft's Guillemot said that his company has been hard at work ...

Talk Xbox  UK Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot, speaking in a full-year investor call has given an indication of when to expect the publisher's biggest games. Quarter 3 (November - December 2009) will reprtedly see the arrival of Assassin's Creed 2, Splinter Cell: ...

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 UK Apple is planning a further push into videogames, possibly using something like its Apple TV set-top box to rival Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo's consoles, according to Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot. Guillemot, was speaking at Ubisoft's financial results ...

 Romania Still, recently, the Chief Executive Officer of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot, stated that all publishers and developers needed to be on the lookout for new hardware that would change how the development process works. With such different positions from two ...

 Romania - Andrei Dumitrescu After revealing the financial results of his companies, its Chief Executive Officer, Yves Guillemot, announced that Ubisoft was getting ready to create videogames for a new generation of hardware. As he talked to investors and to industry analysts, ...

AURUM3 NewTech  UK The Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox 3 (or 720, or whatever) are due in the “next few years” according to Yves Guillemot, CEO of French videogames publisher Ubisoft. But how soon will those “next few” years come? Not before 2013, according to controversial ...

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By x3sphere Speaking in a recent interview with Gamasutra, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot went on record to state that the company has already taken the liberty of planning ahead for future console and handheld iterations. Guillemot acknowledges that maintaining a proactive outlook is essential to c...

 CA Though he didn't go into more detail (at least, as far as we know) regarding controls, we can't help but worry after what Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said last year. Interestingly, during the interview the developer remained cagey regarding the ...

By Luke Plunkett Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot says: Take-Two's Strauss Zelnick: I'm concerned that it's going to be a pretty rough holiday season. Everyone's going to be shopping less. First you are going to see less foot traffic and then less inventory on the shelves.

By Kyle Stallock Obviously as giddy as a schoolboy, Ubisoft chief executive officer Yves Guillemot said, "The holiday quarter is off to a solid start with a successful launch of Far Cry 2. The game is well on track to achieve our expectations for the year."

By Dustin Quillen Guillemot went on to admit that casual games account for nearly 25 percent of the company's business these days, and that if industry trends continue, that figure could increase threefold. "I think the number of people can triple. We had the six-to-50-year-old males playing games and 80-...

By The News Team GameDaily has an interview with Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot that is chock-full of information. I’ve pulled a few snippets, but please make sure to read the full piece for a lot more talk concerning Nintendo. BIZ: Regarding Wii MotionPlus, how long did Ubisoft know about it and when will we s...

By Sukhdeep Yves Guillemot, chief executive officer of Ubisoft, stated: “The video game market offers numerous internal and external growth opportunities. We have therefore decided to sell our stake in Gameloft in order to focus on Ubisoft’s expansion and strengthen our ability to seize all such...