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Ubisoft CEO still opposes hostile Vivendi takeover

Ubisoft chief executive Yves Guillemot said in a conference call with analysts that his company still opposes a hostile move by Vivendi to take ownership of Ubisoft.

The French video game company reported $1.6 billion in revenue and an operating profit of $146 million for the fiscal year ended March 31. During the call, Guillemot was asked by an analyst what the company’s position was on giving a board seat to Vivendi, which has acquired more than 15 percent of Ubisoft’s stock since last October.

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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.