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Tencent and Guillemot family considering buyout of Ubisoft | Bloomberg report

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Bloomberg reported that Tencent and Ubisoft’s founding Guillemot family are discussing a potential buyout of the French video game developer, in a story citing unnamed sources.

Ubisoft has lost more than half its market value in 2024, and it has taken a pounding for a poorly received Star Wars: Outlaws open world title and a delay in its holiday release Assassin’s Creed: Shadows.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.