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2.1 Highlights of the financial year
2001/2002
FINANCIAL YEAR 2001/2002
April 2001
■Announcement of the new Rayman®Mseries, a new type
of multiplayer shooting and racing game. It will be available
for PC and PlayStation®2, Xbox™ and GameCube™.
■Opening of a new distribution subsidiary in Canada. Ubi Soft
acquired the Guillemot Corporation's interactive software
distribution division for Canada. The main business of the
new organization, which will employ about ten staff, will be
the sale, distribution and promotion of products throu-
ghout Canada.
May 2001
■Agreement signed with Sony Online Entertainment for the
publication of PlanetSide™, the first massively multiplayer
online shooting game. This exclusive agreement covers
Europe, Australia and Japan. It is scheduled for release in
the second quarter of 2002.
■Agreement signed with Crave Entertainment for the publi-
cation of Battle Realms™ for PC.
■Worldwide agreement signed with Sony Pictures for the
development of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™, a
game inspired by the well-known movie that won four
Oscars. The game is scheduled for release in spring 2003,
and will be developed for PlayStation®2, PC, GameCubeTM,
Game Boy®Advance and XboxTM.
■Licensing agreement signed with Codemaster for three
games for Game Boy®Advance: Colin McRae RallyTM 2.0,
Mike Tyson Boxing and TOCA World Touring Cars.
■Ubi Soft won several IGN awards at the E3 (Electronic
Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles:
•Rayman®Advance, award for the best performance and
graphics on handheld consoles;
•IL 2 SturmovikTM, award for the best PC simulation
game;
•Battle Realms™, award for the best PC strategy game;
•Pool of Radiance™ II, award for the best role-playing
game (RPG).
June 2001
■Myst®III: Exile topped the sales charts in the United
States according to PC Data and Amazon.com ratings.
According to Australia's Inform Official National Chart, the
game was also at the top of the country's charts in the
week of May 13th.
■Release of Rayman®Advance in the United States and
Europe simultaneously with the launch of Nintendo's hand-
held console.
■Agreement signed with Capcom®, for seven Game
Boy®Advance games.
These games include: Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Revival, Street Fighter Alpha 3 (working title), Mega
Man Battle Network, Breath of Fire and Final Fight One.
Ubi Soft will publish these games in Europe, Australia,
New Zealand and Eastern Europe.
July 2001
■Ubi Soft and Ludigames announced the release of 15
games for PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) for
Christmas 2001.
■Worldwide publishing agreement signed with Team 17 for
the next Worms brand game for PlayStation®2, PC,
Game Boy®Advance and GameCubeTM.
August 2001
■Ubi Soft announced Shadowbane, a massively multiplayer
online (MMO) game in North America, developed by Wolfpack
Studios (Texas). The game is scheduled for release in the
first semester of 2002. At the same time, Ubi Soft set
up a new division, ubisoft.com, to manage new games por-
tals and MMO “pay-per-play” games.
■Exclusive licensing agreement signed with Mattel to develop
and publish its new interactive Scrabble®game.
This five-year agreement covers all existing games platforms
and all territories with the exception of North America.