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Over 6.8m players took part in the open beta for Ghost Recon Wildlands. That’s a record high for the company, overtaking the 6m people who participated in the For Honor beta earlier this month. Across the game’s various beta phases, some 6.83m players took part, with over 34m hours played. …
Read More »Final Round 20 will hold a For Honor tournament
For Honor may have only been out for a matter of days, but it is already building up quite the competitive scene. Online competitions have proven to be very popular, and now one of the largest fighting game events in the world has included it in its game line up. …
Read More »Ubisoft hire quartet of Telltale Games talent
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Read More »For Honor claims second UK No.1
Ubisoft’s For Honor is the UK No.1 for the second week in a row, despite a hefty drop in sales. Physical unit sales for the game were down 72 per cent week-on-week, although this was still enough to force Microsoft And THQ Nordic’s Halo Wars 2 to settle for second …
Read More »Rainbow Six caster Panky on his eSports journey and growing the scene
Christopher Pankhurst, better known as Panky to pretty much every one, has been around the eSports scene for some time. Things started out for him in League of Legends, where he enjoyed a stint working for Riot Games, before deciding to test the waters of freelance casting and streaming. Since …
Read More »For Honor hacks and slashes its way to No.1
Ubisoft’s For Honor has debuted at No.1 in the UK All Formats Top 40. It’s the publisher’s first chart topper since The Division early last year. The game also boats the best new entry for a new IP since Sony’s No Man’s Sky. 57 per cent of sales went to …
Read More »Drums of War: For Honor’s Audio Design
Multiplayer historical combat game, For Honor, has just been released. We speak to audio director Nicholas Duveau about how the games sounds are made
Read More »How a strong eSports community made Rainbow Six Siege a ‘player retention machine’
Rainbow Six Siege has become somewhat of a surprise hit in the world of eSports. Things started out slow after a muted launch at the tail end of 2015, but during the last twelve months Ubisoft and ESL have built a sizeable pro scene, with a consistent and defined structure, …
Read More »Bird Song – The music of Eagle Flight
With a new kind of reality comes a new challenge in the world of games music. Sean Cleaver speaks to composer Inon Zur about his latest work on Ubisoft’s VR title, Eagle Flight
Read More »Splinter Cell film producer shakes off Assassin’s Creed performance concerns
The Splinter Cell movie has been in the works for years and is now back in the headlines – or so it seems. Producer Basil Iwanyk, who previously worked on the likes of John Wick and The Expendables, gave an interview to Collider about the upcoming adaptation of Ubisoft’s popular …
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