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The five brothers of the Guillemot family founded Ubisoft as a computer game publisher in 1986 in France. Yves Guillemot soon made a deal with Electronic Arts, Sierra On-Line, and Microprose to distribute their games in France. By the end of the decade, Ubisoft began expanding to other markets, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
In the early 1990s, Ubisoft initiated its in-house game development program which led to the 1994 opening of a studio in Montreuil, France. That year Michel Ancel created the RaymanRayman is a French video game series from Ubi Soft, published worldwide on a variety of platforms. Rayman Released: August 28, 1996 ESRB Rating: E Villain: Mr. Dark 2-D Graphics For: Atari Jaguar, Game Boy Color and Advance, PC, PlayStation, Sega Saturn T character. Ubisoft became a publicly traded company in 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan and continued to expand to offices around the globe, opening locations in ShanghaiAlternate meanings: See Shanghai (disambiguation Shanghai ( Chinese: , pinyin: shang hi; Shanghainese IPA: /z h/) is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Chang Jiang delta. In Chinese, Shanghai's abbreviations are H ( or ) and Shen . and MontrealMontreal (/mVn. tri"Al/ in English, /mO~. re"al/ in French) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, Canada, where it also constitutes an administrative region. It is Canada's second most populous city after Toronto ( Statistics Canada), and the sec.
In 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri, Ubisoft acquired Red Storm EntertainmentRed Storm Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ubisoft Entertainment, specializing in PC games, console games, and related merchandise. The head quarters for Red Storm is located in Morrisville, NC. The History The story of Red Storm Entertainmen, a game development studio that had already been famous from its Tom ClancyThis article is about Tom Clancy the novelist, for the member of the Irish folk band The Clancy Brothers, see Tom Clancy (singer Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. born April 12, 1947), who writes under the name Tom Clancy is an American author of political thrillers games. That same year, the company also purchased Blue Byte Software. By 2003, Ubisoft reported operations in 22 countries, nine of those having production or design offices. Ubisoft had a number of successful and award-winning games that year, including Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, , XIII, Rayman 3 , and . Ubisoft's revenue for 2002-2003 was 453 million euros and the company employed 1900 people (1300 in production). As of 2004, Yves Guillemot, a founding brother, is the chairman and CEO of Ubisoft.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ubisoft committed itself to online games by getting behind , The Matrix Online, Shadowbane, and the European and Chinese operation of EverQuest. The publisher established ubi.com as its online division. But in February 2004, Ubisoft cancelled the online portion of Uru and backed out of the publishing deal on The Matrix Online. Regardless, only a week later the company announced its acquisition of Wolfpack Studios , developers of Shadowbane.