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Ubisoft’s new online shooter The Division has 9.5m registered users. That’s according to the publisher’s latest financial report. Note that this does not mean that 9.5m people have bought The Division, but rather that number of gamers has played it (one copy can be played across multiple profiles). CEO and …
Read More »Develop Studio Sales Charts: Dark Souls III sends From Software soaring in April
EA Canada follows in second place thanks to EA Sports UFC 2, while Remedy Entertainment manages just fifth despite the success of Quantum Break
Read More »‘Complete rewrite’ needed to fix The Division on PC
A multiplayer shooter development veteran has questioned whether Ubisoft can ever fix the PC version of The Division without completely rewriting the game. The game has been getting lots of press in recent weeks over the growing plague of cheaters and exploits. Now former Sony, Respawn, Irrational and Pandemic dev …
Read More »The Division hacks are result of ‘fundamentally misunderstanding how FPS games network’
Trusted client network model can’t be fixed ‘without a complete rewrite’, warns ex-Respawn and Sony online dev Glenn Fiedler
Read More »Ubisoft hands 1666: Amsterdam rights to Patrice Desilets
The legal dispute between Patrice Desilets and Ubisoft is over, with the rights for 1666: Amsterdam exchanging hands in the process. Having previously left the developer for THQ, Desilets re-joined Ubisoft in 2013. However, the pair quickly fell out with Desilets being suspended just two months later, leading to him …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed creator regains 1666 Amsterdam rights from Ubisoft
Former creative director for franchise Patrice Desilets withdraws legal action in return for control over suspended project
Read More »Breaking down the (right) walls: Ubisoft Montreal on texturing Rainbow Six Siege’s destructible world
From brick walls to plaster ceilings, no material is safe in Rainbow Six Siege. Lucas Granito, senior tech artist at Ubisoft Montreal, tells Develop how the studio built up the shooter’s environments – so players could tear them right back down
Read More »The Division and Far Cry Primal rescue March for retail
Ubisoft was the hero on the High Street last month, with The Division and Far Cry Primal topping the UK charts. The Division was by far and away the biggest seller of the month, shifting almost half a million physical copies during the period. 1.72m boxed games were sold during …
Read More »Division bug has not wiped characters, Ubisoft says
Breathe a sigh of relief – gamers who feared they may have lost their characters in The Division have been told their data is safe. Following the release of the game’s 1.1 patch this week some players were aghast to discover that their characters had vanished. However, the cause has …
Read More »Develop Studio Sales Chart: Massive Entertainment leads the way in March
The Division makes Swedish dev last month’s most successful studio
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