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Here. Valve must be laughing all the way to the bank. Ubisoft announced today that it’s bringing 40 games to Steam, a deal that makes it the most prolific on the download service.

Assassin’s Creed is already to pre-purchase on Steam, but the new deal will see the Tom Clancy series, the Heroes of Might & Magic series, the IL-2 Sturmovik games and Far Cry added.

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According to this, Ubisoft’s shares rose 12 percent to €54.98 on the news it had bought all rights to the Tom Clancy brand last week. Before the spike, shares in the French firm had slid 29 percent this year.

Ubisoft is thought to have paid in the region of €60 million for the IP, and now owns all rights to publish books, games, movies and merchandise related to the franchise.

President Yves Guillemot also confirmed that the publisher is to start work on a Clancy-based MMO in the wake of the deal.

Ubisoft announced last Thursday – just as most of the British press had landed in the pub to “celebrate” Easter – that it had acquired the rights to the Tom Clancy brand from the man himself, in itself a major announcement.

In an investor call after the press release was issued, though, Ubi CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed that the publisher was now to start work on a Clancy-branded MMO. It only takes a small leap of logic to realise that the ramifications of such a project could be seismic.

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According to this, Wedbush Morgan estimates that Ubisoft’s purchase of the Tom Clancy IP – announced last Thursday – will cost in the region of €60 million. The money is to be paid over three years with potential earn-outs of up to approximately another €15 million.

Ubi now owns the rights to the entire Clancy brand, including books, games, movies and merchandising related to the IP. The company has already said it’s beginning work on an MMO based on the brand in the wake of the deal.

Ubisoft has bought the rights to the Tom Clancy IP from the man himself for an undisclosed sum, but the publisher confirmed that it’s going to be €20 million lighter at the end of financial 2008 with additional payments to be made as far as fiscal 2010.

“After ten years of a highly successful collaboration which has seen the creation of blockbusters that set standards in the videogame industry, such as Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, today, acquiring the perpetual property rights of the Tom Clancy name for video games and related projects is a major event,” said Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot.

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