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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1997; 28 years ago (1997) |
| Founder | Martin Walfisz |
| Headquarters | , Sweden |
Key people | Thomas Andrén[1] (managing director) |
Number of employees | 750+ (2023[2]) |
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| Website | massive.se |
Massive Entertainment AB is a Swedishvideo game developer and a studio ofUbisoft based inMalmö. The company has been fully owned byUbisoft since 2008. The studio is known forTom Clancy's The Division,The Division 2,Ground Control, andWorld in Conflict.
Massive Entertainment was founded in 1997 by Martin Walfisz. In June 2000, Massive released the award-winning PC action-strategy titleGround Control, published bySierra Studios. The same year an expansion was released namedGround Control: Dark Conspiracy.
In 2002, the studio was acquired byVivendi Universal Games through their NDA Productions subsidiary.[3] In October 2007, they released the gameWorld in Conflict, described as a further development of thereal-time tacticsgameplay formula from theGround Control games, but set on Earth during an alternate history lateCold War. The game was released on 18 September 2007 and won critical acclaim, including nominations for one of the best games of 2007. It was followed by an expansion,World in Conflict: Soviet Assault. In December 2007, the studio moved into new offices on Drottninggatan in Malmö, employing 130 people at the time.[4]
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.[5] On 10 November 2008,Ubisoft acquired Massive Entertainment. In March 2009, following the acquisition, the former CEO Martin Walfisz left the company.[6]
In December 2010,Ubisoft confirmed that Massive would be working on anAssassin's Creed project. On 5 May 2011, it was announced that Massive Entertainment was collaborating on development ofAssassin's Creed: Revelations, developing the Desmond's journey sequences in the game, which was released in November 2011. Massive also collaborated on the development ofFar Cry 3, which was released in December 2012.
AtE3 2013 Massive announced their next game,Tom Clancy's The Division.[7] The game was released on 8 March 2016 and sold more copies in its first 24 hours than any game in Ubisoft's history, the biggest first week for a new game franchise, generating $330 million in its first five days.[8]
In March 2017, Massive announced that their next major title would be based onJames Cameron's Avatar.[9][10] The game was revealed atE3 2021 to be titledAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora and released on 7 December 2023.[11]
In April 2020, Massive and its more than 650 staff moved from the offices on Drottninggatan to Kvarteret Eden, a former textile factory in Malmö'sMöllevången district.[4]
In January 2021, the newly reformedLucasfilm Games announced that Massive started work on a newStar Warsopen world title. This would be the firstStar Wars game outside ofElectronic Arts since they acquired a May 2013 contract to produce allStar Wars related titles.[12] This would later be revealed asStar Wars Outlaws, and it released in August of 2024.[13]
| Year | Title | Platform(s) | Publisher(s) | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2000 | Ground Control | Windows | Sierra Studios | Also co-developed theexpansion packDark Conspiracy (2000) withHigh Voltage Software | [14][15] |
| 2004 | Ground Control II: Operation Exodus | Vivendi Universal Games | — | [16] | |
| 2007 | World in Conflict | Vivendi Games | Also developed the expansion packSoviet Assault (2009) | [17][18] | |
| 2014 | Just Dance Now | Android,iOS,Tizen,tvOS | Ubisoft | Co-developed withUbisoft Paris | [19] |
| 2016 | Tom Clancy's The Division | PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | — | [20] | |
| 2019 | Tom Clancy's The Division 2 | PlayStation 4,Stadia, Windows, Xbox One | — | [21] | |
| 2023 | Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora | PlayStation 5, Windows,Xbox Series X/S | — | [22] | |
| 2024 | Star Wars Outlaws | — | [23] | ||
| TBA | Tom Clancy's The Division 3 | TBA | — | [24] |
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