Items tagged with Ubisoft
As Ubisoft continues to struggle to find its footing in the current gaming market, the company also finds itself embroiled in a legal battle with gamers that started late last year. The lawsuit stems from the decision to shut down the servers for its online racing game, The Crew. And the latest argument the company...
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Ubisoft can’t seem to catch a break. The last few months have seen the storied publisher shut down one of its live service game efforts, while its Star Wars game floundered despite the popularity of the franchise. The company needs a big win with its upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but things aren’t off...
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Ubisoft has been struggling mightily as of late, with the company having to shutter games and managing to draw the ire of industry peers. However, a lone bright spot for the company has been its live service first person shooter, Rainbow Six Siege. The game has managed to find longevity as it nears a decade since its...
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Bethesda has a hit on its hands with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a game that's earned a 'Very Positive' user review ranking on Steam, and high 80s critic scores on Metacritic (88 for PC and 86 for Xbox). That said, if you're running a GeForce GPU in your desktop or laptop and are having stuttering issues in...
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Another hopeful entrant into the competitive live service game space bites the dust, as Ubisoft announces that it will be shutting down first person shooter XDefiant and issuing refunds to players. The upcoming Season 3 will still launch for current players to enjoy, but this will be the last addition of content...
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With the latest update to Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft noted that users running Windows 11 24H2 are susceptible to some annoying issues. However, it appears as if this isn’t the only game from the publisher that’s having problems on Microsoft’s latest operating system. Microsoft has acknowledged in a bulletin that...
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Star Wars Outlaws struggled right out of the gate with technical issues, and as a result, got a lukewarm reception from critics and players alike. This led to the game’s director, Julian Gerighty, to vow that the development team would continue to improve the game with future updates. Well, it seems as if Ubisoft has...
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Beleaguered game publisher Ubisoft is now facing backlash from players, who are seeking to attain a class action lawsuit against the company after it shut down the online multiplayer racing game The Crew. This lawsuit comes on top of struggles Ubisoft has seen with its recent game releases, with the flagship Star Wars...
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Ubisoft is looking to rehab its long running Assassin's Creed franchise, with fresh storylines that are able to successfully weave together a narrative that connects the present with the past. Executive Producer Marc-Alexis Coté, noted that once the original trilogy ended, “the modern storyline struggled to find its...
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The Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is considered to be one of the best games of 2024 and brought a breath of fresh air to a franchise. Despite the critical acclaim, the game failed to meet Ubisoft’s financial expectations, leading to the team that worked on the game to be disbanded and sent to work on other...
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After struggling with some of its latest game releases, Ubisoft is apparently looking to its past, with the company purportedly exploring a potential remake of Rayman. This project is said to be in early development at Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Montpelier under the codename "Project Steambot."
These two teams will...
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Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws was a highly anticipated release for fans of the franchise, and was expected to be one of the company’s hit releases for 2024. After encountering some bugs during the early access period, the game released to the general public and received a mixed reception from reviewers. The problems...
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Star Wars Outlaws has had a rocky start to its early access period, with reviewers having a gulf in opinions regarding how good of an experience the game delivers. Unfortunately, a patch meant to fix bugs and add visual enhancements isn’t helping, as it brings with it a huge headache for PlayStation 5 players. For...
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Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws, which will take gamers through a tour of the galaxy’s underground, is slated to debut at the end of the month. With the launch quickly approaching, Ubisoft has released the hardware players will need to tackle this new Star Wars adventure, even including a trailer detailing all of the...
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With one of the longest incubation periods of any Assassin's Creed titles, the next one called Assassin's Creed Shadows will only be released when the Ubisoft development team feels like they've struck the "right balance." At four years since its announcement, the November-bound title, if done right (and assuming...
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Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, says that the future of Assassin’s Creed includes remakes of prior titles in the popular franchise. Guillemot says that this will allow Ubisoft to “revisit some of the games we've created in the past and modernize them; there are worlds in some of our older Assassin's Creed games that...
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Over the weekend at the BLAST R6 Manchester Major, Ubisoft announced its upcoming R6 Membership, which elicited a round of boos from those in attendance. Ubisoft unveiled the new membership plan during the company’s reveal of the roadmap and plans for Y9S2 - Operation New Blood.
On the online announcement page for...
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Ubisoft has tapped Intel to be its exclusive CPU launch partner for its upcoming Star Wars Outlaws game that is due to release this summer. From a marketing standpoint, that means the two entities have been "hard at work behind the scenes" to make sure gamers will get the best experience on Intel's processors, though...
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Artificial intelligence is seeping into almost everything we encounter daily, from chats to robots and much in between. One of these exciting things in between is video games, which can have AI-aided non-playable characters (NPCs) to enhance realism and interactivity. We saw this earlier this year with NVIDIA’s ACE...
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The site formerly known as Good Old Games and now called GOG.com has taken a humorous potshot at Ubisoft on social media over the topic of owning games. Posted on X (formerly Twitter), the official GOG.com account wrote, "You should feel extremely comfortable with owing your games on GOG (they're DRM-free)," with a...
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Ubisoft is renaming and retooling its Ubisoft+ game subscription plans, with one of the highlights being access to a vast catalog of classic games like Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Siege on PC for a relatively low monthly price. And that's great, but there's an uncomfortable undertone for old school gamers who, like...
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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, the latest entry into the storied franchise, now has a demo for players to check out before its official release on January 18. The game has been getting favorable reviews from publications that got access to the game earlier this month, with some even going so far as to tag it a...
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