Ubisoft Annecy was established in 1996 in Annecy, France, and their first game was Rayman Revolution for PlayStation 2. Annecy developed the multiplayer portion of many Ubisoft games, including the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series and the Assassin's Creed series. Their first title as a lead developer was Steep, an open world winter sports game released in late 2016. The studio was previously known as Ubisoft Simulations. The studio also collaborated with Massive Entertainment and worked on Tom Clancy's The Division 2.