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Ubisoft’s experimental PC Grow Home could yet brand out onto other platforms. Want to see Grow Home on consoles?” game artist at Ubisoft Reflections Jack Couvela said. We have to prove ourselves on PC first, so tell every PC gamer you know they have to buy it!” He also said …
Read More »Patch frees Assassin’s Creed: Unity content from companion app lockout
The latest update to Assassin’s Creed: Unity has removed the requirement to play the game’s smartphone companion app to access all of its content. A number of blue and gold treasure cheats in the console and PC game could until now only be accessed once a player had met certain …
Read More »Unity troubles will benefit the next Assassin’s Creed
Yves Guillemot explains that new engine introduced with last year's title will be refined for future installments
Read More »‘Painful’ Assassin’s Creed: Unity development will help next year’s game
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said that the pains experienced in building a new game engine for last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Unity will benefit this year’s instalment. Each time there’s a new transition of consoles, we try to create engines that take full advantage of the capacity of those consoles,” …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed film scheduled for December 2016 premiere
Production for the Assassin’s Creed movie adaptation is underway, Ubisoft has revealed. CEO Yves Guillemot mentioned the film’s status during a company earnings call that followed the posting of Ubisoft’s quarterly financial results. "We have the pleasure to announce today that the green light has been given by New Regency, …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed: Unity and Rogue ship 10m in strong quarter for Ubisoft
Ubisoft has posted strong financial results for its 2014 holiday season run. The firm reported sales of $923.5m – a 55.8 per cent increase stacked against its third quarter results during the previous year. The publisher also revealed Far Cry 4 has shipped 7m units since it launched, with Assassin’s …
Read More »Know Your Friends is Ubisoft’s unreleased Wii U game, report claims
The identity of Ubisoft’s completed but unreleased Wii U game has apparently been revealed. NintendoWorldReport says that Unseen64 has named the title as Know Your Friends. Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot admitted last year that the publisher had a completed game ready to go for Wii U, but that it was …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Giselle Stewart
Having overseen Newcastle-based studio Reflections as general manager for 19 years, Giselle Stewart is now leading Ubisoft’s corporate affairs in the UK. In her roles as director of trade body TIGA, chair of the Creative Skillset Council for Video Games and an Advisory Board member for Next Gen Skills AcademyStewartplays …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Véronique Lallier
My 15 year career has been driven by my passion for both video games and digital entertainment – which began at the age of 10, when I was given a NES,” says Warner’s Vronique Lallier when asked about her journey in the games industry. I started my career at Ubisoft …
Read More »Ubisoft’s latest game is £5.99 Steam-only platformer Grow Home
‘Experimental’ platform game Grow Home is now available on Steam. The title was put together by an eight-person team at Driver creators Ubisoft Reflections and is described as procedurally animated”. It was initially released as an internal plaything for Ubisoft staff, but was eventually spun out into a full release. …
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