Ubisoft Winnipeg guides Ubisoft’s use of AI and cloud computing to make bigger, better games

Darryl Long can’t make his Ultima IV, his favorite game from his formative days. So he works on artificial intelligence and cloud computing to help other Ubisoft Entertainment designers and developers make their Ultima IV.

Long is the managing director of Ubisoft Winnipeg, which the French publisher opened last year. Winnipeg is a sort of headquarters for the company’s artificial intelligence and cloud computing efforts. These technologies help Ubisoft use its 32 studios across the world — as one of its comms reps told me, the sun never sets on Ubisoft — to work on massive game worlds such as Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and live-service online games such as The Division II.