Ubisoft Massive (formerly
Massive Entertainment) is a
Swedish video game company based in
Malmö,
Sweden. The company is fully owned by
Ubisoft. They are best known for the
Ground Control series of
real-time tactics video games. They were acquired by
Vivendi Universal Games in 2002. Their latest release was
World in Conflict, which has been described in interviews on the company's official website as a further development of the
real-time tactics gameplay formula from the
Ground Control games, but set in our world, during the late
Cold War. It has also been described as being the largest project for Massive Entertainment so far, with a huge budget. The game was released on September 18, 2007 and won wide critical acclaim, including nominations for one of the best games of 2007.
On August 6, 2008,
Activision Blizzard put up Massive Entertainment for sale after reorganizations within the company after the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games. On November 10, 2008,
Ubisoft acquired Massive Entertainment.
In March 2009, former CEO Martin Walfisz left Ubisoft Massive.
Massive is currently in development of their new game. Though no details about this new game have been released, on November 2, 2010, Massive published an article on their facebook page...
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