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Massive Entertainment AB

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video game industry
Founded	1997; 20 years ago (1997)
Founder	Martin Walfisz
Headquarters	Malmö, Sweden
Key people	David Polfeldt (managing director)
Owner	Ubisoft
Number of employees	380 (2015)
Parent	Ubisoft
Website	www.massive.se

Massive Entertainment AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Malmö, Sweden. The company has been fully owned by Ubisoft since 2008. The studio is known for Ground Control, World in Conflict, and their latest title Tom Clancy's The Division.

Massive Entertainment was founded in 1997 by Martin Walfisz. In June 2000 Massive released the award-winning PC action-strategy title Ground Control, published by Sierra Studios. The same year an expansion was released named Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy.

In 2002 the studio was acquired by Vivendi Universal Games.

In October 2007, they released the game 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 on Earth during the late Cold War. The game was released on 18 September 2007 and won wide critical acclaim, including several nominations for one of the best games of 2007. It was followed by an expansion, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault in March 2009.

On 6 August 2008, Activision Blizzard put up Massive Entertainment for sale after the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games and the subsequent internal reorganization. On 10 November 2008, Ubisoft acquired Massive Entertainment. In March 2009, following the acquisition, the former CEO Martin Walfisz left Massive.

In December 2010, Ubisoft confirmed that Massive would be "teaming up on a project for Assassin's Creed". On 5 May 2011, it was announced that Massive Entertainment is collaborating on development of Assassin's Creed: Revelations, developing the Desmond's journey sequences in the game, which was released in November 2011. Massive also collaborated on the development of Far Cry 3, which was released in December 2012.