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Monday, February 28, 2005
Ubisoft Sports

Golf Sensation Vijay Singh Joins Ubisoft’s Sports Roster; Additional Team Sports Titles will Lead Strategy to Enlarge Catalogue.

Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest videogame publishers, announces that it will be developing a series of sports titles, making its debut as a publisher of sports videogames. Its entrance will be propelled by several worldwide licensing agreements and acquisitions. Ubisoft has signed an exclusive license with Vijay Singh, the No.1 ranked golf player in the world, to produce a Vijay Singh-titled golf game. The company has also acquired the team sports assets from Microsoft Game Studios.

This strategic move expands the breadth of Ubisoft’s increasingly diverse catalogue, extending the company’s reach into the full spectrum of game categories, from the tactical first person shooter genre to children’s titles, from strategy to stealth action and now sports.

Considered one of the most consistent and focused golfers on the Tour, Vijay Singh will headline a title inspired by his powerful and aggressive style. While he has been consistently ranked among the Top 10 players internationally, in 2004, Singh became the first golfer to dethrone Tiger Woods’ No.1 stronghold on the game since 1998, with 9 victories including his win at the PGA Championship in August 2004. Off to a great start in 2005, Singh began the year by winning the Sony Open in Hawaii. True to the significance of his first name (Vijay means “victory” in Hindi), the title published by Ubisoft will enable players to truly compete and challenge themselves the way Singh has done.

Ubisoft also announced that it has acquired the technology, tools and source code shipped in Microsoft Game Studios team sports games, including NHL Rivals (hockey), NFL Fever (American football), NBA Inside Drive (basketball) and MLB Inside Pitch (baseball). Ubisoft plans to develop games for all platforms and will initially concentrate on consoles, including Xbox® and next-generation.

“There is still room for innovation in the sports genre and Ubisoft has some great ideas that we’re looking forward to implementing,” said Yves Guillemot, president and chief executive officer of Ubisoft. “We hope to not only offer sports fans games that have a unique flair and character, but also something that will take advantage of the fabulous capacities of current and next generation consoles.”

“Ubisoft is doing an incredible job in bringing my style of golf to the world of gaming,” said Vijay Singh. “I am excited to be teaming up with one of the most innovative and experienced gaming companies in the industry and look forward to a long and successful partnership.”






Tuesday, March 1st @ 9:31 AM
Casper wrote..."Hey, it's not all about the FPS - which is what Ubi, as well as MS need to realize, and it seems that they are. There are more than enough shooters saturating the Xbox right now. Sports is the other dominating genre, and it's good to see someone else get into it.

With the engines of the 3 weakest sports games out there, I don't see what the big deal is. But I am glad to hear that Ubi is going into golf. If they do anything like Links (the best golf game to date) then it will do well. Top Spin should be on this list, but I guess it's just going to sit there until MS gets a good enough price for it's engine.

What will Rivals do with no NHL?
What will Fever do with no NFL players to use?
Inside Drive? Horrible game.

But it's UbiSoft and I have trust in them or else I wouldn't have purchased just about every game they have made to date.

As for the RS franchise - their fans are greedy. There's a sequel every year and it's getting old fast."
Tuesday, March 1st @ 9:22 AM
Mr Incognit0 wrote..."if they have "extra" people, they should use them to improve current projects "
Tuesday, March 1st @ 1:44 AM
Sam-XBA wrote..."mr incgnit0, ubis present titles have a seperate development team... just because they make more games doesnt meant they lay off staff on their other titles.. they just assign unused, or hire more staff to work on a new project... or hire a completly different development studio"
Monday, February 28th @ 7:24 PM
Mr Incognit0 wrote..."ubisoft shouldnt be thinking about sports games, they should be making an effort to make their present titles, (gr2) and newer ones (RS lockdown), not dissapoint their already depleating fan base."
Monday, February 28th @ 5:46 PM
DaStang wrote..."Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't EA just become major stakeholders in Ubisoft? I think they will be calling the shots on what sports games Ubisoft CAN publish."
Monday, February 28th @ 4:54 PM
CharlieHustle wrote..."ummm, not sold. as far as i can see, football and basketball are exclusivesto EA and Take two respectively, and theres no tellin whats goin to happen with basketball, and or either hockey. Its a waste."
Monday, February 28th @ 4:01 PM
Sam-XBA wrote..."im not a huge sport game fan... but there are a few that i like a lit, like links2004 *i wish it wasnt named 2004, cause it now sounds out of date* and fifa 2005. even though ea made it"
Monday, February 28th @ 3:06 PM
SilverOak wrote..."give us a great golf game! more like Links and a lot less like TW."
Monday, February 28th @ 2:53 PM
mattgame wrote..."They will bring my Fever back!!! Yes!!!"
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