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Ubisoft is a French multinational video game publisher, headquartered in Rennes, France. It was founded in March 1986 by the Guillemot brothers. Since its establishment, Ubisoft had slowly become one of the largest video game publishers. It also has the second-largest in-house development team, with more than 10000 staff members working on various properties in 33 video game studios established in different parts of the world. It is a third-party developer and mostly publishes games made internally.

While Ubisoft set up many in-house studios such as Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Paris, the studio also acquired several studios, such as Massive Entertainment from Vivendi, Red Storm Entertainment, Reflections Interactive, and FreeStyleGames from Activision. Ubisoft studios often cooperate with each other in their projects, sharing different development duties. For instance, 2014's Assassin's Creed Unity saw 10 studios across the world working together.

Ubisoft Montreal was Ubisoft's largest in-house development studio, as well as one of the largest development studios worldwide. Founded in 1997 in Montreal, the studio started with only 50 employees. 25 of them comes from Ubisoft headquarters in France, while the rest are new recruits. Yannis Mallet was the company's studio head. While the company originally focused their work on family licensed titles, the team achieved breakthrough success through the release of two new titles: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.

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