{"id":129660,"date":"2024-10-07T18:25:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/ubisoft-responds-to-rumors-about-tencents-potential-buyout\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:25:25","slug":"ubisoft-responds-to-rumors-about-tencents-potential-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/ubisoft-responds-to-rumors-about-tencents-potential-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft responds to rumors about Tencent\u2019s potential buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Ubisoft is addressing rumors that Tencent is exploring a buyout of the French game publisher \u2014 though it isn\u2019t saying much right now. In <a href=\"https:\/\/staticctf.ubisoft.com\/8aefmxkxpxwl\/zAyDQducoGatn4IydphOy\/dcdb9b3c9f3ce53112b358890acd1196\/PR_Company_statement_07102024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement on Monday<\/a>, Ubisoft said it \u201cregularly reviews all its strategic options in the interest of its stakeholders and will inform the market if and when appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">One of the options Ubisoft is considering is taking the company private, according to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>. Tencent, which currently has about a 10 percent stake in Ubisoft, also owns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/tencent-now-owns-499-per-cent-of-guillemot-bros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">49.9 percent of Guillemot\u00a0Brothers Ltd<\/a>. Ubisoft says it\u2019s currently focused on open word and live service games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/7\/24264469\/ubisoft-tencent-buyout-rumors-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft is addressing rumors that Tencent is exploring a buyout of the French game publisher \u2014 though it isn\u2019t saying much right now. In a statement on Monday, Ubisoft said it \u201cregularly reviews all its strategic options in the interest of its stakeholders and will inform the market if and when appropriate.\u201d One of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}