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Ubisoft’s $4 billion carveout sells Tencent a 25 percent stake in some of its biggest games | Tencent will invest $1.3 billion in a new entity controlling Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six.


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It will work to improve the “quality of narrative solo experiences,” as well as “expand multiplayer offerings with increased frequency of content release.” Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed Shadows last week, which the publisher says has reached over 3 million players and had the second highest day one sales revenue in the franchise. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe.

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