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Yves Guillemot
Yves Guillemot was the founder of Ubisoft on March 1986 -
1990
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ubisoft committed itself to online games by supporting Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, The Matrix Online, and the European and Chinese operation of EverQuest. -
January 2003
In January 2013, Ubisoft acquired South Park: The Stick of Truth from THQ for $3.265 million -
Febuary 2004
, in February 2004, Ubisoft cancelled the online portion of Uru and backed out of the publishing deal on The Matrix Online. -
2008 to 2009
In Ubisoft’s 2008–2009 fiscal year, the company’s revenue was €1.256 billion, reaching the 1 billion euro milestone for the first time in the company’s history -
2008
In November 2008, Ubisoft acquired Massive Entertainment from Activision.[10 -
January 2010
In January 2010, Ubisoft announced the Online Services Platform, U-Play, which forces customers to not only authenticate on the first game launch, but to remain online continually while playing, with the game even pausing if network connection is lost -
July 2013
On 2 July 2013, Ubisoft announced a major breach in its network resulting in the potential exposure of up to 58 million accounts including usernames, email address and encrypted passwords. Although the firm denied any credit/debit card information could have been compromised, it issued directives to all registered users to change their account passwords and also recommended updating passwords on any other website or service where a same or similar password had been used