Serious Sunday: Meanwhile in France - Vivendi acquires more Ubisoft stock, fears of hostile takeover
2This week, Luke checks in with a bit on the video game business M&A front, as news surfaces that Vivendi Universal has acquired another 3% of Ubisoft Stock, raising their stake to a formidable 25%. With Vivendi inching ever-closer to a hostile takeover of Ubisoft, Luke looks at the past track record of Vivendi acquisitions, and how the company's decidedly non-midas-like touch has affected the studios that they have bought out before.
Watch Serious Sunday: Ubisoft DLC policy changes - Big steps against "Bad DLC": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP972IOuYuk
Watch more Serious Sunday!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLacwSBKCWdF_Falvwmu9szmMc_Z7rXN2y
Serious Sunday is a freeform roundtable discussion between the members of the Level 0 NPCs, where a specific topic is pre-selected by the group to be explored and discussed at length. Each of the NPCs approach the topic from both the perspective of a seasoned, die-hard gamer, and as creators of games themselves. Part freeform review, part critical analysis, part video game book club, Serious Sunday is where the NPCs take a step back and take a moment to give a serious look at something that is important to the industry, or games in general.
Background video for this episode of Serious Sunday is Assassin's Creed: Rogue: http://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/