Ubisoft launches Vantage Studios subsidiary to develop its biggest franchises

Ubisoft antecedently announced that it was moving with Tencent connected a caller subsidiary focused connected its biggest games. Now that offshoot has a name: Vantage Studios.

The caller operation, which Ubisoft describes arsenic a “creative house,” volition beryllium liable for the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six series. It includes studios successful Montréal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Barcelona, and Sofia, which Eurogamer reports dwell of 2,300 employees. As previously announced, the subsidiary volition person 2 CEOs successful Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot, the second of whom is the lad of Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot.

Ubisoft is looking to usage a akin exemplary for its different studios and franchises moving forward, noting that it “plans to acceptable up further originative houses and radical its brands and franchises nether the banner of a shared DNA and improvement expertise.” It’s not wide yet however it plans to divided things up with its different studios.

The concern with Tencent, which owns a 25 percent involvement successful Vantage, came aft reports that the Chinese tech elephantine was looking into a imaginable buyout of Ubisoft.