By John Meyer, consultant in financial affairs – Eurasia Business News, October 5, 2023

French video game company Ubisoft has released the Standard Edition of Assassin’s Creed Mirage on October 5, 2023, for PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox, and Amazon Luna. 

The Standard Edition is priced at $49.99. The game is set in 9th century Baghdad and follows the story of Basim, a young street thief seeking answers and justice as he navigates the bustling streets of the city. 

The game features parkour and stealth gameplay and is expected to be shorter than recent releases like Valhalla and Odyssey. The combat system is similar to previous Assassin’s Creed games, with players using a variety of weapons and abilities to take down enemies.

The game’s open-world environment allows players to explore the city and complete various side quests and activities, in a historical frame.

Created in 2007, the “Assassin’s Creed” saga is one of the most popular video game franchises of the last fifteen years, with more than 200 million copies sold worldwide. The last version was “Valhalla” in 2020, which had surpassed the “billion euros in revenue” mark, according to Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot.

Ubisoft is a French video game company that was founded in 1986 by the Guillemot brothers in Carentoir, France. The company has its headquarters in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France, and has development studios across the world. 

Ubisoft is one of the largest video game publishers in the world and has developed and published games for several video game franchises, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Tom Clancy’s, and Watch Dogs. 

Ubisoft has more than 20,000 employees across its studios and subsidiaries. In addition, the company has been involved in blockchain-based video games since the later 2010s and is a co-founder of the Blockchain Game Alliance.

Ubisoft, the French video game company, has released its full-year 2022-23 earnings figures on May 16, 2023.

In the first quarter of the fiscal year 2023-24 (April to June 2023), French gaming publisher Ubisoft generated € 288.9 million in revenue, down -9.2% (-8.2% at constant exchange rates) compared with the € 318.2 million generated in first-quarter 2022-23.

First-quarter 2023-24 net bookings totaled €267.7 million, exceeding the target of around €240.0 million and down -8.7% (-7.7% at constant exchange rates) on the €293.3 million figure for the first quarter of 2022-23.

The company released major new titles, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, and Skull and Bones, in October and November 2022.

The Assassin’s Creed franchise reached in 2022 a record level of active users for a given fiscal year. In terms of acquisition, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla now has 44% more players than Assassin’s Creed Origins and 19% more than Assassin’s Creed Odyssey life-to-date on a comparable timeframe, with materially higher revenue per player leading to life-to-date net bookings up respectively +82% vs. and +61%.

The Annual General Meeting of shareholders of Ubisoft was held on 27 September 2023 in Paris and was chaired by Mr. Yves Guillemot, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.

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