Ubisoft Kiev
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
Key people | Sébastien Delen (managing director) |
| Owner | Ubisoft |
Number of employees | 95 (2015) |
| Parent | Ubisoft |
| Website |
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Ubisoft Kiev (also known as Ubisoft Ukraine) is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kiev, Ukraine. The company is owned and operated by Ubisoft. It is one of Ubisoft's Eastern European divisions, along with Ubisoft Bucharest and Ubisoft Sofia.
History
About opening of the studio was officially announced in the press release April 29 2008. It was also said that at the beginning Ukrainian studio will work in co-op with Romanian, but then proceed to be an independent game developer.[1][2] Some of the developers were trained at Ubisoft Romania, and worked there on the porting arcade flight simulator Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII with the Xbox 360 on PC prior to the opening of the studio.
On March 17 2009, a port of the Xbox 360 version of the game Tom Clancy's HAWX was released on PC with the help of six of the studio's employees. As of March 2010 the team included sixteen people, with the possibility of future expansion. In an interview later that year with website PlayGround.ru[3] it was revealed that, the studio was working on adding support for the game engine, developed by the main company, as well as porting unannounced games for the PC and Mac OS versions of games and collaborating with other Ubisoft studios.
The company is specialized in bringing Ubisoft’s franchises to home computers. It had worked on titles including From Dust, Driver: San Francisco, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Assassin's Creed III and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Assassin's Creed Unity ,Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed Rogue and Trials Fusion. The company also collaborated with Massive Entertainment to support Uplay.
Games developed
| Year | Title | Platform(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mac | Win | ||
| 2009 | Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X | No | Yes |
| 2009 | Assassin's Creed II | Yes | Yes |
| 2010 | Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood | Yes | Yes |
| 2010 | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction | Yes | Yes |
| 2011 | From Dust | No | Yes |
| 2011 | Driver: San Francisco | No | Yes |
| 2011 | Assassin's Creed: Revelations | No | Yes |
| 2012 | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | No | Yes |
| 2012 | Assassin's Creed III | No | Yes |
| 2013 | Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag | No | Yes |
| 2014 | Trials Fusion | No | Yes |
| 2014 | Far Cry 4 | No | Yes |
| 2014 | Assassin's Creed Unity | No | Yes |
| 2015 | Assassin's Creed: Rogue | No | Yes |
See also
References
- ↑ "Ubisoft opens another studio - this time in Kiev". Develop. 29 April 2008. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
- ↑ "Electronic Arts sells its stake in Ubisoft". GameSpot. 16 July 2010. Retrieved 2011-03-28.
- ↑ "Зачастую картинка на ПК на порядок выше, чем на консолях". playground.ru. June 4, 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-30.