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Alan Velasco - Thu, Oct 24, 2024
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...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Jun 28, 2024
Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, says that the future of Assassins 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...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 16, 2024
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...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, May 09, 2020
Not everything lives up to the hype. The NFL off season in New England, in which Patriots fans (like myself) anticipated Brady's return along with the aggressive pursuit of high level receivers (I'm still reeling in self pity). Or the...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Jul 15, 2018
Ubisoft is ramping up its efforts to curb hate speech, including racist and generally toxic comments, in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. The publisher has flipped the switch on a system that automatically doles out instant bans to Rainbow...
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Shane McGlaun - Sun, Feb 11, 2018
Gamers, for the most part, arent big fans ofmicrotransactions in games. However, modern games are festooned with microtransaction for things you can buy in the game to upgrade characters and weapons all to make the game easier to defeat...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Nov 14, 2017
Microtransactions, for better or worse, have become a big business in the world of gaming. Ubisoft recently announced that its revenue from microtransactions now exceeds that of actual game sales. Electronic Arts isn't immune to this...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, May 12, 2015
What, another Assassins Creed game is coming? Yup, thats definitely the case and to prove it, Ubisoft has posted a new trailer for Assassins Creed: Syndicate, which will launch first on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 On October 23, and...
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Joel Hruska - Thu, Nov 27, 2014
In the last few weeks, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Unity has become a cautionary tale of how treating a franchise as a perfunctory once-a-year update machine while simultaneously stoking player expectations can catastrophically backfire...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 14, 2014
This may come as a shock to the system if you were expecting Ubisoft's upcoming Watch Dogs title to run at Full HD 1080 (1920x1080) on your PlayStation 4 console, especially after Sony straight up said "the game will run at 1080p and 60...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 11, 2014
You never know how a game will actually turn out until you've had a chance to play it and/or see it in person, but with that said, we're confident that Ubisoft's forthcoming Watch Dog title is going to at least look fantastic on the PC...
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Joel Hruska - Sun, Mar 09, 2014
Ever since Ubisoft unveiled its upcoming open-world, action-adventure game Watch Dogs, the game press has been looking towards the title as a no-holds barred example of next-generation innovative gameplay. Unlike most games, which place an...
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Joel Hruska - Thu, Mar 25, 2010
We'd like to begin our coverage of the latest DRM idiocy in gaming by apologizing to Ubisoft. After reading about some of EA's recent bright ideas and the constant connection EA's Command and Conquer: Tiberian Twilight requires in order to play the single-player game, we realized we'd unfairly...
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Joel Hruska - Sun, Mar 07, 2010
Ubisoft's eagerly awaited Silent Hunter 5 was released last week as the first title carrying the company's new DRM system. That system, as we've previously discussed, requires that gamers maintain a constant Internet connection or be kicked from the game. One of the major flaws in that system...
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Joel Hruska - Thu, Mar 04, 2010
There's two bits of Ubisoft news today, one of which we're still investigating. First up, the company apparently payed attention to the outrage of gamers who discovered the DRM in the PC version of Assassin's Creed II would throw them out of game without saving if they lost an Internet...
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