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The creative director of Watch Dogs has said the second game in the series will try and appeal to fans in a new way. When you start a new project [and new IP], it’s a blank page and everything you do is what you want to do,” Jonathan Morin told …
Read More »Ubisoft relaunches graduate program
New Year, New Job 2015: Applications now open for second year
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Unity DLC Dead Kings launches next week
Upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity DLC Dead Kings will launch next Tuesday, Ubisoft has revealed. The publisher announced back in November that Dead Kings would be offered for free to owners of the game, due to its well documented launch woes. The premium content was originally set to be packaged in …
Read More »Case Study: How Organic Motion’s OpenStage set the scene for Far Cry 4
Ubisoft Montreal details how markerless mocap helped them quickly pre-visualise cinematics in best-selling shooter
Read More »FIFA 15 is UK’s biggest video game of 2014, but it can’t match Frozen
The Entertainment Retailer’s Association has once again revealed the 20 best selling video games, movies and albums of 2014 in the UK. And not a single parent will be surprised to discover that Disney’s Frozen tops the list. That movie sold a staggering 4.012m copies last year, which is 1.34m …
Read More »Downloading Ubisoft’s free game for AC: Unity owners removes right to sue
Ubisoft’s free game offer for Assassin’s Creed: Unity Season Pass holders comes with a hefty caveat. As spotted by Joystiq, anyone downloading a free title – which was offered to Season pass holders as recompense for the game’s troubled launch – must agree to a document that says the user …
Read More »MCV’s 12 Games of Christmas: Far Cry 4
Far Cry was always a popular IP, but it rose to new heights with the excellent Far Cry 3, which has shifted around 10m units globally. Now the series is coming to new platforms in Far Cry 4, which is one of this Christmas’ biggest video game launches. The critics …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s fourth patch brings fresh problems
Assassin’s Creed firm Ubisoft continues to release patches and updates to fix its latest release, but it’s a slow and frustrating process for consumers. The latest patch – which focuses on improving the frame rate in Assassin’s Creed Unity and revamping areas of Paris that were causing problems –weighs in …
Read More »Patch problems continue for Assassin’s Creed Unity
Ubisoft issues 6.7GB patch for troubled triple-A game, error creates 40GB download for Xbox One owners
Read More »Ubisoft delays latest Assassin’s Creed: Unity patch so it can ‘refurbish Paris’
The fourth patch for Assassin’s Creed: Unity has been delayed so Ubisoft can add further improvements. Chief among them seems to be what the publisher has described as a refurbishment” of Paris. As stated last week, we’d expected to release the patch today (and we know that many are anticipating …
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