Ubisoft

What Ubisoft is

Ubisoft is a French video game publisher. The company's own about page states that Ubisoft has 17,000 employees in offices and studios worldwide, and describes the company as a publisher that creates and develops games for a worldwide audience. Ubisoft runs its own newsroom, where it publishes product updates, accessibility work and partnership announcements directly. It also operates a public investor centre with a calendar of quarterly sales and full-year earnings releases, and its games are distributed across PC, console and mobile platforms.

Among the titles Ubisoft publishes is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, which has a dedicated game page on ubisoft.com. That page is where the publisher posts season updates, patch notes and community news for the title, including operator additions, limited-time modes and in-game promotions. Ubisoft's own brands page sets out the company's stated position that it develops games intended to bring players together, and lists the portfolio that sits alongside Rainbow Six Siege.

How Ubisoft started

Ubisoft's own history page states that the company's story begins with a family: the five Guillemot brothers, who saw an opportunity in software development and founded Ubisoft in 1986 to create and distribute video games around the world. The company has been associated with the Guillemot family from that founding moment to the present day. A later revision of the wordmark and the company name followed the initial period, and the company now trades simply as Ubisoft.

The family link is still visible in the company's own legal documents. Ubisoft's legal information page names Yves Guillemot as President of the French entity that publishes the company's regional web presence, and lists him as the director of publication. That document also ties the current corporate structure back to the founding group, since the President named there belongs to the same family that started the business in 1986.

Rainbow Six Siege

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is listed on Ubisoft's website with the publisher's own season and update feed. The page carries patch notes, developer livestream recaps and news posts about the game's competitive scene, including esports bundles tied to the title's history. The same feed is used for announcements about the game's long-term support, such as changes to how many operators the developers plan to add per year in future seasons.

The game is published as part of a wider Ubisoft portfolio that the company presents on its own brands and news pages. Because Ubisoft publishes those pages itself, release information, seasonal content, platform availability and esports events for Rainbow Six Siege are announced through the publisher's own channels rather than through third parties, and the same pages carry the company's stated aims for its catalogue as a whole.

Corporate and legal structure

Ubisoft operates through a group of legal entities in different regions. The company's legal information page for its Europe, Middle East and Africa business identifies the web publisher as Ubisoft EMEA, a French SAS company registered at the Creteil registry under number 432 573 624. The same page gives the registered address as 2, avenue Pasteur, 94160 Saint-Mande, France, and lists a French intracommunity VAT number and a telephone number for the entity.

That legal page is the address Ubisoft EMEA uses for formal notices, and it names Yves Guillemot as President alongside the director of publication role. Regional storefronts, support channels and press contacts for the wider Ubisoft group are published separately on the company's own sites. The investor centre publishes the group's financial calendar, links shareholders to company documentation, and states that shareholders vote on the resolutions put to annual general meetings, which companies are required to hold each year.

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