Massive is a Swedish video game company based in Malmö, Sweden. The company is fully owned by Ubisoft. They are best known for the Ground Control series of real-time tactics video games. They were acquired by Vivendi Universal Games in 2002. On August 6, 2008, Activision Blizzard put up Massive Entertainment for sale after the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games and the subsequent internal reorganization. On November 10, 2008, Ubisoft acquired Massive Entertainment. In March 2009, former CEO Martin Walfisz left Ubisoft Massive. On November 2, 2010, Massive published an article on... their Facebook page detailing a visit to the Swedish Armed Forces Nordic Battle Group. During this visit, several Massive developers partook in the observation of a modern military exercise. The purpose of the observation was to record audio of the entire mock battle, so developers could get a better sense of what a battlefield sounds like. In December 2010, Ubisoft confirmed that Massive would be "teaming up on a project for Assassin's Creed". On May 5, 2011, it was announced that Massive Entertainment is collaborating on development of Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
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