They really did it: Ubisoft founded a secondary company and Tencent bought 25% of its shares for €1.16B. The idea behind the company is that it now owns Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, and some other IPs.

This sounds slightly odd, since the new company worth more than 4 Billion, while the Ubisoft itself is around 2 Billion.

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Ubisoft shared hundreds of artworks from AC Shadows: concept arts, 3D models, materials and shaders, hair, clothing — like a free artbook that may help you to boost your game's visuals.

https://magazine.artstation.com/2025/03/ubisoft-assassins-creed-shadows-art-blast/

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Meanwhile, Ubisoft censored the topless priestesses in Far Cry 4 with the new patch. The patch is generally good and fixes a lot of bugs, but ladies were lore-accurate, since it was a part of their beliefs.

Oh, and they broke fan-mods installer + added at least 10 new bugs that people noticed in the first couple of hours.

UPD: The changes were rolled back and appeared to be a mistake — the censored version was for Japan only.

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Ubisoft’s Colorblind Simulation Tool, Chroma, Now Available For Public Use

https://news.ubisoft.com/en-gb/article/72j7U131efodyDK64WTJua

Before that, EA has done a similar thing with their patents and technologies for accessibility.

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Ubisoft unironically announced a mobile blockchain game in mid 2025. And it's not April fools!

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There's a free demo now on compatible platforms, so if you ever wanted to try it out — https://store.steampowered.com/app/2842040/Star_Wars_Outlaws/

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Have you rendered AC Shadows today?

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Ubisoft created a tool to make 3D avatars from a single image: MoSAR. It will benefit from artistic polishing but allows skipping a lot of work.

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Yet another Anvil Engine talk:

https://youtu.be/CcYq18bkvyU
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I'm curious when Ubisoft will start selling Snowdrop and Anvil to third parties...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jFC7d7LiJg
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