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Rabbids Invade Games Convention Yet Again

Since 2006, Ubisoft has released a new Rabbids video each year for Games Convention, showing the psychotic bunnies doing their best to invade the show floor. I love these little animated shorts; I think they’re a great way to build enthusiasm for the games and their endearing characters. I mean, they’re not sandvich-level awesome, but [...]

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Far Cry 2 PC System Requirements Unveiled

As the developers of Crysis will no doubt attest, it’s one thing to build a beautiful PC game — but another entirely to build one your audience can reasonably play on existing hardware. But this is one of the many areas where Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2 is attempting to step out of its predecessor’s soft [...]

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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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Ubisoft Dates, Details Armored Core for Answer

Last week, we revealed that Armored Core: for Answer was heading to the US, courtesy Ubisoft. Some of you were excited, others pleased, but I’ll bet a few of you had no idea that the mechanized sequel to Armored Core 4 even existed, much less what the game entailed. Today, your week of speculation is [...]

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Bye-Bye Bourne — Activision Blizzard Relinquishes Ludlum License

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 [...]

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Red Steel 2 Confirmed, Powered by Wii MotionPlus

When GameCyte cornered Ubisoft personnel at E3 2008, they were tight-lipped regarding the notion of a Red Steel sequel, but today their reticence is no more. In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, executive director Alain Corre confirmed that Red Steel 2 is in development for the Nintendo Wii — and that the title will make use [...]

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Armored Core: For Answer Nabbed By Ubisoft, Ships This Fall

While most of Ubisoft’s Q1 fiscal report will consist of the usual gigantic sales numbers (up 25.8% to €169 million) and a smattering of bold, forward-looking statements, there’s also something for gamers to look forward to. On the last page of a press release, the international giant confirms that they will publish the formerly import-only [...]

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E3 2008: Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway Impressions

We were just about to leave the show floor at E3 2008 for a private appointment, but saw something beautiful out of the corner of our eye.  Rain, thick and as realistic as we’d ever seen, was completely drenching a gritty, war-torn world just the other side of a large LCD screen. We had to [...]

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Community Content: The Sincerest Form of Infringement

Solid community-created game content, when done right, is every publisher’s fantasy. Game companies hope and pray for the day when talented fans of their games take the time to explore the development tools and put together competent, high-quality additions to the original product. It’s a win-win for everyone: Assuming the user’s content takes off, the [...]

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Buddy System: Ubisoft’s Patrick Redding on Procedural Narration in Far Cry 2

GameCyte gets all buddy-buddy with Far Cry 2’s narrative designer. Who knew an free-roaming FPS could tell such tales?

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