Shares in video game maker Ubisoft surged over 30% on Friday after Bloomberg reported that major shareholder Tencent and the Guillemot family, its founders, were considering a buyout of the company.
The latest instalment of the hugely popular "Assassin's Creed" video game series has been delayed to February instead of coming out in November as planned, its French publisher Ubisoft said Wednesday.
Video-game giant Ubisoft, renowned for its Assassin's Creed franchise, is embroiled in a labor dispute following the French company’s plans to implement a three-day, in-office workweek.
Ubisoft said it now expected net bookings, its preferred measure of sales excluding deferred revenues, of €350mil to €370mil (RM1.6bil to RM1.7bil) in its second quarter, down from €500mil ...