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The European release of Rocksmith has been pushed back to next year and Ubisoft is asking consumers not to import it. A statement on the Rocksmith Facebook pageread: Rocksmith will not be available in Europe until 2012. This is due to music licensing and other external factors. For those of …

Consumers prepare to die as the "toughest game ever" arrives on shelves, courtesy of Namco Bandai. Dark Souls is available today and follows on from the PS3 cult hit, Demon’s Souls. The game challenges players to navigate a series of boobytrap-laden dungeons where death is a varied and all-too-regular experience. …

Ubisoft has teamed up with Nickelodeon to launch a Raving Rabbids TV seri3w. Nickelodeon has global broadcast rights (outside of France) fir 78 seven-minute CG episodes that will be produced, in-house, at Ubisoft. These 78 episodes will air as 26 half-hour episodes. The Rabbids game series been a huge hit …

Xbox 360 owners will soon be impervious to physical assault thanks to the latest entry in Ubisoft’s Coach series. My Self Defence Coach will be exclusive to Kinect and arrives in the UK on November 11th. The game follows the success of the publisher’s My Fitness Coach series, but focuses …

Ubisoft launched its own social network, Uplay with the release of Assassin’s Creed II. It’s a layer that runs over the likes of Xbox Live and PSN, and offers players of Ubi titles the chance to use achievements to unlock in-game freebies. Uplay has been a relatively quiet part of …

Every publisher is busy shaping up their digital offering. And Ubisoft is no different. In fact, it has been quietly but confidently prepping a beefed up digital offer, last year hiring a dedicated VP for digital games, Chris Early – the former head of Microsoft’s casual games business. His job …

Having been on Ubisoft’s release schedule without a firm date for some time, the publisher has at last announced a (hopefully) final release date for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The company told Joystiq that the title will be released in the US on March 6th. Which, incidentally, is the same …

Xbox Live and PSN title due for 'winter' release

Global sell-off sees EA down 5%; Activision down 3%; Take-Two down 5%; THQ down 8%; Ubisoft down 1.5%

Hit TV drama series NCIS will be heading to consoles next month in the form of a point-and-click-style adventure game. Ubisoft will publish the title on Xbox 360, PS3, PC, 3DS and Wii on October 28th. Players will be able to control their favourite characters from the show in third-person …