In 2009, Sony's PlayStation Portable will host brand-new games in the "Rock Band," "MotorStorm," "LittleBigPlanet" and "Assassin's Creed" franchises, the company announced today at their annual Destination PlayStation conference. "Rock Band Unplugged," a PSP exclusive from MTV Games, will use the PSP's Wi-Fi connection to access an in-game store for downloadable content. But don't expect to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
Remember when Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed on the PC, and were dismayed when it went on to become one of the most pirated PC games? Even though they loaded it up with DRM? Ubi remembers, and they remember how plenty of pirates blamed that very DRM for their downloads. So with Prince of Persia, they’re [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
Torrentfreak has released their list of the Top 10 games pirated in 2008, and while the list of 10 itself contains almost no surprises, what is surprising is one man is responsible for the top two: Will Wright. Obviously, we all knew Spore would top the list. The game had record-breaking downloads, thanks in no small [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 27, 2008
Giant Bomb is reporting that, during a recent taping of Bonus Round, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter released the information that Assassin's Creed 2 will take place “several hundred years in the future" -- relative to the setting of the original game -- "sometime in the 1700s.” Pachter went on to suggest The French Revolution [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 7, 2008
While we were busy fawning over Ubisoft's new games at E3 2008 a few weeks ago, Ubisoft was spending its time filing a lawsuit in North Carolina, against its former disc reproduction firm Optical Experts Manufacturing (OEM). Alleging that an OEM employee took home a copy of Assassin's Creed PC and leaked it onto the internet [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Last week, we discussed seven games in which the options menu wasn't merely a place to adjust your TV display, but rather the key to unlocking the full potential of some truly stellar titles. While the post was primarily meant to inform gamers of the remarkable possibilities they might have overlooked in their own collection, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 6, 2008
The in-game settings menu -- for tech-savvy PC gamers a veritable paradise, filled with graphical tweaks and adjustable key bindings -- is in most console and handheld titles a place few bother to tread. It's home to your volume sliders, your monoaural/stereo sound selector, your brightness adjustment -- and if the developers were feeling particularly [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
We don't normally show off trailers, though that's something we're planning to change in the weeks to come. But after witnessing the jaw-droppingly gorgeous first footage of Mirror's Edge, and confronted with official Konami confirmation of Metal Gear Solid 4's recent video bombshells, we just couldn't bear to wait another minute before sharing them with [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 25, 2008
In addition to announcing that the company's sales increased by 36% over the last fiscal year, Ubisoft also took the opportunity to outline a plan for expansion. Currently the company has approximately 3,600 employees, but Ubisoft plans to increase that number by 900 to 4,500 by March of next year.
Continue reading...Friday, April 18, 2008
After reading reports on Ars Technica that the PC version of Assassin's Creed was riddled with roach-sized bugs causing artifacting, random crashes and tremendous slowdown, GameCyte called up Ubisoft to find out what went wrong, and today we received our answer, and word of an upcoming patch.
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