Ubisoft Shares Sink After Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delay

  • Video game company said it had hired advisers to weigh options
  • Assassin’s Creed Shadows game will be held until March 20
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Ubisoft Entertainment SA fell the most since September after the French video-game company announced another delay in its popular Assassin’s Creed franchise and analysts expressed doubts about its takeover prospects.

The company also said that it had hired advisers to weigh options, including a potential deal, to help improve its share price in a statementBloomberg Terminal late Thursday. Bloomberg News reported in October that the founding Guillemot family and shareholder Tencent Holdings Ltd. were weighing whether to take Ubisoft private.