Ubisoft hasn't exploded or been bought by Tencent: Its finances were delayed because of maths nerds, AC Shadows is 'Overperforming', and it's got one upcoming game you don't know about, thank you
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Ubisoft's delayed financial report took place earlier today, and it turns out all that hullabaloo was—per company big boss Yves Guillemot—for perhaps the most boring reason imaginable: "We appointed a new panel of auditors, that was approved at the [Annual General Meeting] last July."

So, if Ubisoft hasn't suddenly become someone else's property or vanished into a financial black hole, did anything actually interesting come out of its delayed financial report? Well, we did learn that Ubi's pretty chuffed with how Assassin's Creed Shadows has gone. The company's earnings report said that the latest AC (plus "the rest of the brand's catalog") have been "overperforming" against its expectations, though it's keeping schtum about specific sales numbers.

Instead, the only number we get is the flabby metric of "session days"—that is to say, the unique number of individual calendar days that players have actually, you know, played a game. Shadows has, in the year to date, "generated 211 million session days" from among its playerbase, which Ubi says is 35% higher than the average for the two years prior.

...mouais.