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A comprehensive version of Ubisoft’s open-world shooter Far Cry 4 is headed to PS4 and PC. Far Cry 4 Complete Edition includes the base game, as well as all of the content contained in the title’s Season Pass. The Season Pass consists of five pieces of add-on content: The Syringe, …
Read More »Watch Dogs 2 in development – report
Development for Watch Dogs 2 is already underway at Ubisoft, according to multiple reports. VideoGamer was the first to spot a now removed listing on Ubisoft senior gameplay programmer Julien Risse’s LinkedIn profile, which mentions Watch Dogs 2” along with Watch Dogs and its Bad Blood DLC. Ubisoft has talked …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed creator Désilets reveals new game Ancestors: the Humankind Odyssey
Ancestors: the Humankind Odyssey will be the first game to emerge from Patrice Dsilets’ studio Panache Digital. Our game is a third person action-adventure survival episodic game,” the studio has said. Through each episodes, we want the player to relive the greatest moments of mankind with a documentary twist. Our …
Read More »Ubisoft to publish physical PC version of Homeworld Remastered
Following its digital release on PC in February, Gearbox’s Homeworld Remastered is getting a physical release next month. While self-published on digital, Ubisoft has stepped up to provide digital publishing duties for the game, which will be available exclusively from GAME from May 8th. The retail version includes remasters of …
Read More »Ubisoft working on further Child of Light games
Ubisoft has hinted that more releases set in the Child of Light universe are on the way. Taking to Twitter, the creative director of last year’s UbiArt Frameworks RPG title, Patrick Plourde, said that more projects set in the same universe are in development. Note, projects. Plourde and Ubisoft is …
Read More »Jade Raymond to give games lecture in London next month
Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs producer to discuss her career in games development
Read More »Ubisoft reshuffles UK PR team – Petrullo leaves, McGarry joins
There have been some major changes at Ubisoft’s UK PR team. The company has confirmed the departure of both Stefano Petrullo and Lydia Cutland, while Ollie Coe is leaving the PR team to join Ubisoft’s brand management operations. Joining Ubisoft is Stefan McGarry, who has left Sega after 12 years …
Read More »Ubisoft makes first episode of Valiant Hearts free on iOS
The first episode of Ubisoft Montpellier’s World War I adventure game Valiant Hearts: The Great War has been made free on iOS. The episode, previously priced at $4.99, can be downloaded for no cost. The three remaining parts are now offered as in-app purchases – either in a bundle for …
Read More »2D Assassin’s Creed Chronicles becomes a three part series
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Chronicles will no longer be a single release, with two other titles joining the now three part series. The first part of the trilogy, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China, was announced last September as part of the AC: Unity Season’s Pass. That’s now scheduled for a digital release …
Read More »Climax Studios working on new Assassin’s Creed trilogy
Trio of digital entries in Ubisoft’s flagship franchise all due this year
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