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Ubisoft has announced it currently working on Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online, the first free-to-play entry in the series. The game is being developed by Ubisoft Singapore and is a multiplayer-only, third-person tactical shooter. It will be available to download on PC, with a closed beta due to start later …
Read More »Ubisoft signs Game of Thrones prequel
Popular fantasy tale A Game of Thrones is coming to PC this September. Ubisoft is handling the UK release of A Game of Thrones: Genesis, a strategy title based on the A Song of Fire and Ice books. It will cover the events leading up to the smash hit HBO series …
Read More »Ubisoft announces Smurfs Dance Party
The hunger for dance-based games shows no sign of abating with news that Ubisoft’s upcoming licensed Smurfs game will be another addition to the genre. The Smurfs Dance Party, which is based on the licence for Sony Pictures Animation’s 3D movie, will be released on Wii in July. "The Smurfs …
Read More »Mizuguchi to judge ‘Rez in Flash’ dev contest
Kongregate teams with Ubisoft with a $10,000 grand prize on offer
Read More »Next Ghost Recon hitting in 2012
Ubisoft has confirmed a further delay to next-gen console and PC team shooter Ghost Recon: Future Shooter. The game is now due out in the company’s fiscal Q4, which means some time between the beginning of January 2012 and the end of March of that year. The title was announced …
Read More »Ubisoft: Wii successor is ‘fantastic’
Publisher Ubisoft has become one of the first prominent publishers to publicly express its excitement for Nintendo’s still mysterious new home console. And while no specifics or tech info was divulged, Eurogamer reports that in a call to investors CEO Yves Guillemot says the HD work done for machine such …
Read More »Sales up 19 per cent at Ubisoft
Ubisoft has announced that sales for the financial year ended March 31st, 2011 came in at 1.03bn Euros. This is a 19 per cent increase from the 871m Euros taken in the previous year. Key sales drivers were the firm’s dance portfolio (including Just Dance), its Kinect and 3DS ranges …
Read More »Ubisoft reveals Strictly Come Dancing
Ubisoft will be releasing a Strictly Come Dancing title this Christmas. The publisher is readying a title based on the popular BBC competition for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. The title’s existence was revealed by the firm’s latest release schedule and is due to arrive on shelves in November. Earlier …
Read More »Assassins Creed Revelations confirmed
The next major Assassin’s Creed release is due this November on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Assassin’s Creed Revelations will be the final chapter in the ‘Ezio Trilogy,’ the series of games that began with 2009’s Assassin’s Creed 2 and continued with last year’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. The Assassin’s Creed …
Read More »New Driver "lighter, more humorous"
As well as rebooting the series, Driver: San Francisco will differ from its predecessors in another key way – it’s going to be a lot funnier. "We have focused back on the original core feel of Driver, that sense of being down in the thick of a street level Hollywood …
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