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Ubisoft Blames Disk Manufacturer For 700,000 Pirated Copies of PC Assassin’s Creed, Files $10 Million Lawsuit

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 [...]

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Enjoyment Optional, Part Two: Six Settings to Satisfy

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, [...]

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Enjoyment Optional: Seven Settings That Made Games Better

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 [...]

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Teaser Trailer Tuesday — Mirror’s Edge, Metal Gear Solid 4

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 [...]

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Ubisoft Riding High and Hiring More

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.

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Patch Inbound for Assassin’s Creed PC

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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Mass Effect PC System Requirements

Strategy Informer spent some time scouring the official Mass Effect forums, and discovered that community manager Jay Watamaniuk has posted the system requirements for the upcoming PC version of the critically-acclaimed elevator simulation.

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Ubisoft Gets Steamed

Valve’s digital distribution salesmen need a raise. In the course of one short month they’ve landed big accounts with Atari, Epic Games, and now, Ubisoft. Today Valve announced that over 40 Ubisoft titles, “the largest library available from any single publisher or developer,” will be available on their online service Steam.

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Sales of Mature-Rated Games Up From 2006

According to some excellent analysis by Matt Matthews at Next-Gen, despite the drop in the number of M-rated titles in 2007, those titles made 64% more revenue than M-rated titles in 2006. Follow along as I break down the results:

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