When a game is released touting a unique method of gameplay, one’s natural inclination is to be skeptical. Gamers have been promised a number of revolutions in control mechanics as of late, and far too often, what we ultimately receive are poorly-used motion controls, poorly-used touch controls, or pointless and gimmicky butt controls. Ubisoft set [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 21, 2008
Yes, that’s right — they got Assassin’s Creed in your Prince of Persia. And though we have to admit it was far more exciting the first time Ubisoft revealed that Altair would appear in a game not his own, we’re certain that plenty of users who register at ubisoft.com for the free Xbox 360 and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Brutal Legend and Ghostbusters may have evaded the Activision Blizzard chopping block, but amnesiac secret agent Jason Bourne hasn’t been as lucky. Only two days after AB declared their intentions to “realign staffing” at Bourne Conspiracy developer High Moon Studios, intellectual property originator Ludlum Entertainment announced today that it has reacquired the exclusive rights to create [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 28, 2008
If it weren’t for Tom Clancy’s Politika, 2008 would mark the ten-year anniversary of the famous Tom Clancy game title prefix — and with the intellectual property rights to the man’s good name securely in pocket, Ubisoft celebrated those ten years at their Ubidays 2008 press event, broadcast live from the Louvre this morning. Following [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 3, 2008
Remember Tom Clancy’s Air Combat, the game that Ubisoft Bucharest boasted would “become the new benchmark for flight combat games”? Well, apparently ‘Air Combat‘ didn’t turn enough barrel rolls in the heads of focus testers, and so now they’re calling it HAWX.
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 20, 2008
Ubisoft announced today that it has acquired all rights to the Tom Clancy name and intellectual property for perpetuity, and will finally be free of royalty payments for the ten years’ worth of games (including best-selling series Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell) published under the international espionage writer’s brand.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Phil Therien, a game designer from Ubisoft, declared that the company would no longer focus on developing hardcore FPS titles. According to an article at Destructoid, via an interview at GamePro: Therien went on the comment that the market for shooters had become “too narrow”, and that compromises had to be made in order to appeal [...]
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