Earlier this year, Patrice Desilets left Ubisoft Montreal, where he had developed three editions of Assassin’s Creed, and moved to THQ’s operations in the same city. Ubisoft didn’t take that lying down, filing suit against THQ for poaching its top talent and winning a court’s decision enjoining it from doing so further.
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Quebec Court of Appeal Unanimously Rules in Favor of THQ in Case against Ubisoft [Ubisoft Investor Relations News Release]