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Another Ubisoft game has found itself embroiled in a gender equality debate. Far Cry 4 director Alex Hutchinson has said that the shooter was inches away” from offering a playable female co-op character – although the feature was ultimately dropped because of workload pressures. It all harks back to the …
Read More »Far Cry 4 passes on playable female character due to ‘workload issues’
Developer claims it was 'inches away' from including playable women
Read More »Ubisoft responds to Assassin’s Creed Unity female omission as devs question reasoning
Publisher Ubisoft has distanced itself from claims that high workloads are behind its omission of playable female characters in the four-player co-op focused Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Ubisoft technical director James Therien yesterday said that adding playable women into the game would have created an unmanageable workload. Now, however, an official …
Read More »Of men and women: Animators explain Ubisoft’s gender conundrum
Developers reveal implementing both male and female characters may be harder than you might think
Read More »No female characters for four-player Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Assassin’s Creed: Unity will for the first time allow four players to work together – but not, it seems, for them to play as a female character. That’s the claim of Ubisoft technical director James Therien, who has argued that while the ten separate studios working on Unity have the …
Read More »E3 2014: Day One News Round-Up
Day one of E3 2014 has been and gone and certainly gave everyone plenty to talk about. We saw Microsoft keep it all about the games in the battle for Christmas. Sony unveiled its ambitious plans for the next six months and beyond. EA rolled out the big guns with …
Read More »Who won E3? The Battle of the (Wrist)Bands
There were many trends to discuss at this year’s Electronics Entertainment Expo. And we will discuss them. All of those bloody co-op games, Sony and Microsoft getting exclusive content and pissing everyone off in the process, all that violence… But one trend that needs addressing right now is the wristband …
Read More »Yves Guillemot: Why Rainbow Six: Patriots had to be scrapped
Ubisoft boss explains companies can no longer risk waiting to restart game development
Read More »VIDEOS: Far Cry 4 gameplay trailer has elephants, wingsuits
Ubisoft has released two videos for upcoming shooter Far Cry 4. The first gives a detailed introduction to ‘the merciless King Pagan Min, the self-imposed dictator of Kyrat’ – he’s the blonde guy you’ll be hating on when the game arrives later this year. Also online is a seven minute …
Read More »E3 2014: Far Cry 4 available to PSN players who don’t own the game
Users can send invites to their friends to join in on multiplayer, even if they haven't purchased it
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