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Ubisoft acquires Gameloft's India studio
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 15th April 2008
UbiSoft has bought a new studio to focus on mobile games, but what do you think of phone-based games?
The investment into the new studio comes just a short time after Ubisoft bought up a development studio in Singapore and marks a continued advance of the Paris-based publisher into Eastern territories. The company already has studios in Quebec, Montreal and France as well.
The new studio houses a team of 120 developers and games testers who have experience working on mobile titles and it's on this that Ubisoft will keep the team focused, using the testing teams to back-up development of larger titles.
"Following on the recent announcement of our new Singapore studio, this acquisition will reinforce Ubisoft's presence in Asia and the southeast region in particular," said Christine Burgess-Quémard, executive director, worldwide studios at Ubisoft in a public statement.
Ubisoft is looking to expand the studio too, taking the headcount up to 200 full-time staff, so if you're looking to crack into the business then it may be worth bearing in mind. Be warned that you may have some stiff competition though, Pune is known as 'the Oxford of the East' and sees 80,000 graduates qualify every year according to Gi.biz.
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After about 6 iterations and triple the cost of the expected "savings" of outsourcing, Ubisoft will have their half-assed, poorly written, untested code. lol !
(I've done a huge amount of work with outsourcing to India and not once has it ever had a positive result. Sad, but true)
at least they can keep pumping out those extreme poor tom clancy games, then cut and run
i wonder who will buy who in the end....
I dont see the market. I see the millions of phones out there.. but I dont see people buying games for them. The vast majority of phones have poor screen resolutions, awkward controls (especially any new Sony Ericsson phone with buttons meant for midgets), poor access (ie. downloading takes ages and is seen to be expensive), plus there isn't an easy shop (like PC version of Steam). Most phones have different memory, OS, keyboard features and screens.
What a nightmare.
As for Ubisoft.. well Hmmm... Every PC port (thats all they do these days) recently has been a stonking disaster so they can quietly kiss my a** !
or make an adaptor for a freaking DS or PSP that does all of the above
its called an ngage....