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Lexi Carson After spending more than 30 years at Ubisoft, Cécile Russeil has been promoted to executive vice president, starting Wednesday. In her elevated role, Russeil will bring her experience in the company to lead Ubisoft’s functions and teams. She will also be in charge of communications, corporate affairs, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, human resources, and legal.

Ubisoft has delayed Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora, quietly confirming a 2023-2024 release window in a first-quarter fiscal sales report.While the report highlights a “slightly better than expected” performance for the company, the rest of the report details a significant delay to Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora.While Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora was originally meant to launch in 2022 and coincide with the release of James Cameron‘s upcoming film Avatar: The Way of Water, Ubisoft has shared that it will now launch in either 2023 or 2024.On the delay, Ubisoft shared that while it is still committed to creating “a cutting-edge immersive experience that takes full advantage of next-gen technology,” the studio needs more time to do that.“While this additional development time is a reflection of the current ongoing constraints on productions across the industry, we are hard at work to design the most efficient working conditions to ensure both flexibility,” explained Ubisoft.In the report, Ubisoft added that it has also delayed a “smaller unannounced premium game” to 2023-2024.“The new high-value mobile partnership for one of our brands reflects the powerful appeal of our brands for the fast-growing AAA mobile segment,” shared Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot. “It also provides our teams with more time to fully realize their creative vision and deliver high-quality experiences for our fans, while at the same time increasing our visibility for both 2022-23 and 2023-24.”Earlier in the week, developers at Ubisoft discussed how “entitled gamers” make launching new games an unpleasant experience.

NFTs and blockchain technology may be a regular sight in Ubisoft games in the not too distant future, as the developer and publisher has outlined plans to focus on “play-to-earn” features.Speaking on an earnings call (as spotted by IBT), CEO Yves Guillemot said that the games industry “is changing regularly with lots of new revolutions happening,” and that Ubisoft “consider[s] blockchain one of those revolutions.”Guillemot added that use of blockchain technology “will imply more play-to-earn that will enable more players to actually earn content, own content, and we think it’s going to grow the industry quite a lot.”Beyond the ecological impact of trading NFTs – the energy costs for blockchain transactions are currently high – there are a

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, employees of the company have once again asked management to “properly acknowledge our demands”.Earlier this week (July 29), an open letter now signed by more than 1000 current and former Ubisoft employees not only expressed solidarity with the Activision Blizzard walkout but called for industry-wide change against harassment and abusive behaviour.The original letter also criticised Ubisoft for not doing enough in the wake of allegations made against the company last year over abuse and sexual harassment.Guillemot responded with a company-wide email, writing that he is committed to creating “real and lasting change” at Ubisoft, stressing that the leadership team had read the letter and that they “take the issues

Ubisoft has announced that it has hired a new Chief People Officer.Ubisoft shared the news via its website on Friday, April 9.

Ubisoft has appointed Raashi Sikka as vp global diversity and inclusion. As the first person to take such a position at the French video game publisher, Sikka will design and implement inclusion strategies that promote diversity and equity amongst Ubisoft's global workforce.

Ubisoft has returned with another update for fans of its upcoming pirate game Skull & Bones, following a brief mention by CEO Yves Guillemot back in July.The game’s creative director, Elisabeth Pellen, shared a new letter where she addresses the delay of Skull & Bones. The message also briefly outlines what fans can expect from the team in the future, alongside a reiteration of her team’s dedication to launching the title.“We know you’ve been waiting for news, so I’m thrilled to confirm this: production on Skull & Bones has been in full swing with a new vision,” Pellen said.

Ubisoft has released an apology video featuring CEO Yves Guillemot, who addressed the company’s recent scandals and promised change.The four-minute video was posted to Ubisoft’s social media and YouTube accounts right before the company’s Ubisoft Forward presentation held yesterday (September 10). In the clip, Guillemot addressed a slew of controversies that have hit Ubisoft since June, including sexual misconduct allegations, toxic workplace behaviour, lack of representation and, most recently, the distasteful misuse of the raised fist symbol in one of its games.“This summer, we learned that certain Ubisoft employees did not uphold our company’s values and that our systems failed to protect the victims of their behaviour.

Ubisoft has updated fans on the development of its upcoming pirate adventure game, Skull & Bones.During a quarterly earnings call on Wednesday (July 22), CEO Yves Guillemot said that he is “very happy” about the ongoing development for Skull & Bones – as well as the delayed Gods & Monsters.“For the two games, Gods & Monsters and Skull & Bones, they are well on the way and they are performing very well, so we are very happy with the way it’s going on those two games,” he said, as reported by VGC.According to Twinfinite, chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet also noted that Skull & Bones is scheduled for release during the company’s 2021 fiscal year, which runs from April 2021 to March 2022.The two executives, however, did not speak on the

Ubisoft will be releasing its next digital showcase this September, giving fans a further look into the company’s future.It was announced during the first Ubisoft Forward event that another showcase would be coming and the news of when came today (July 22) from the company’s quarterly financial earnings call.

Ubisoft on Saturday revealed that several executives will step down from the company amid the changes that are being implemented to strengthen workplace culture in response to recent accusations of misconduct. Chief Creative Office Serge Hascoët will resign immediately, with his role taken over by CEO and co-founder of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot on Thursday published in a blog post an internal letter he wrote to staff members about the recent accusations of harassment and discrimination that targeted certain individuals at the company in recent weeks. The letter, titled "Change Starts Today," declared "The situations that some of you have experienced or witnessed are absolutely not acceptable.