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Gameloft SE is a French video game company based in Paris, founded in December 1999 by Ubisoft co-founder Michel Guillemot. The company operates 18 development studios worldwide, and publishes games for the mobile devices , video game consoles , and PC .
Ubisoft Pune in Pune, India, was originally part of Gameloft, a mobile game developer and publisher, until Ubisoft acquired it in 2008, at which point it had 35 members. The studio then worked on several Just Dance titles, mobile titles, ported to other console such as Nintendo Switch , and provided quality assurance tests for many Ubisoft games.
Vivendi acquired stake in mobile game publisher Gameloft, owned by the Guillemots, and started acquiring Ubisoft shares. [ 45 ] [ 40 ] In the following February, Vivendi acquired €500 million worth of shares in Gameloft, gaining more than 30% of the shares and requiring the company under French law to make a public tender offer ; this action ...
The brothers in charge of Ubisoft and Gameloft, Yves Guillemot and Michel Guillemot [44] respectively, view the investments as a hostile takeover attempt, [45] [46] and are raising capital from within the family [47] and from Canadian investors [48] to maintain control of the companies. As of 8 June 2016, Vivendi has acquired a controlling ...
This is a listing of largest video game publishers and developers ranked by reported revenue over $100 million. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming.
Of the six companies which EA purchased a stake in, two remaining companies are based in the U.S., while three other U.S. companies are defunct. After acquiring a 19.9% stake in France-based Ubisoft in 2004, EA sold a remaining 14.8% stake in it in 2010. [10] [11] Each acquisition listed is for the entire company, unless otherwise noted.
Microsoft Gaming is the largest video game employer in the industry, followed by Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Among the top 41 largest video game employers, ten are based in the United States , eight in Japan , five in China , three in France , South Korea , and Sweden respectively, two in Poland and the United Kingdom , and one each in Denmark ...
video game developer; acquired by Ubisoft and their games are now published by Ubisoft Broderbund: United States 1980 Myst Prince of Persia: acquired by Ubisoft, eventually sold to The Learning Company; no longer publishes video games Black Legend: Welwyn, United Kingdom 1993 Football Glory: defunct 1996 Blizzard Entertainment