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Ubisoft moves into hot mobile games market with acquisition of Future Games of London

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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French video game publisher Ubisoft has grown big on triple-A console games such as Assassin’s Creed, but it is moving into digital games in a big way. Today, the company announced it’s buying Future Games of London.

As part of the deal, Ubisoft will get the studio’s 41 staff members and rights to the Hungry Shark mobile game franchise. Future Games of London was established in 2009. It exclusively focuses on making free-to-play games for smartphones and tablets.

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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.