Ubisoft Massive

Ubisoft Massive

Type	Subsidiary of Ubisoft
Industry	Video games
Founded	1997
Founder	Martin Walfiz
Headquarters	Malmö, Sweden
Key people	David Polfeldt, Managing Director Fredrik Rundqvist, Producer Petter Sydow, Producer Martin Hultberg, Head of Communications Magnus Jansén, Creative Director
Products	Ground Control World in Conflict Tom Clancy's The Division
Owner	Ubisoft
Number of employees	300
Parent	Ubisoft
Website	www.massive.se

Massive Entertainment in Malmö, Sweden

Ubisoft Massive is a Swedish video game studio based in Malmö, Sweden. The company is fully owned by Ubisoft since 2008.

The studio is known for the Ground Control series of real-time tactics video games, World in Conflict, and Far Cry 3.

History

Massive Entertainment was founded in 1997; they were acquired by Vivendi Universal Games in 2002.

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. It has also been described as being the largest project for Massive Entertainment so far, with a huge budget. 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, former CEO Martin Walfisz left Ubisoft Massive.

On 2 November 2010, Massive published an article on their Facebook page detailing a visit to the Swedish Armed Forces Nordic Battle Group. During this visit, several Massive developers partook in the observation of a modern military exercise. The purpose of the observation was to record audio of the entire mock battle, so developers could get a better sense of what a battlefield sounds like.

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., which was released in November 2011. Massive also collaborated on the development of Far Cry 3, which was released in December 2012.

At E3 2013 Massive announced and demonstrated their next game, Tom Clancy's The Division.

List of video games

Year	Title	Platform(s)
		PS3	PS4	Win	X360	XBO	iOS	Android
2000	Ground Control	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
2000	Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
2004	Ground Control II: Operation Exodus	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
2007	World in Conflict	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
2009	World in Conflict: Soviet Assault	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
2011	Assassin's Creed: Revelations	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
2012	Far Cry 3	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
2014	Just Dance Now	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
2016	Tom Clancy's The Division	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No

External links

• Official website