Ubisoft isn't shying away from the fact that "Prince of Persia" ends with a cliffhanger -- in fact, they're rather hoping it will sell three more hours of gameplay come Feb. 26. That's when the aptly-named "Prince of Persia Epilogue Downloadable Content" will arrive on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network, with a "new epic journey" [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
Ubisoft has announced plans for a new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fighting game for Wii, to be released this fall. In its 25 years, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise has seen several video game adaptations of varying success, including two previous fighting game installments, the rather disappointing "TMNT: Tournament Fighters" and "TMNT: Mutant Melee." However, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
Ubisoft announced today that "Assassin's Creed," "Red Steel," "Ghost Recon" and "Splinter Cell" will all receive sequels by the end of the company's 2009-2010 fiscal year, while "I Am Alive" has been delayed. In its third-quarter earnings call, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot also discussed the fate of franchises "Shawn White Snowboarding" and "EndWar," and revealed the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
Ubisoft's November purchase of Massive Entertainment will bear fruit sooner than expected. Today, Ubi announced that "World in Conflict: Soviet Assault," Massive's long-awaited expansion pack to the 2007 RTS "World in Conflict," will be available on PC this March.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
Ubisoft has finally set a rather nebulous release date for its upcoming survival-adventure game "I Am Alive": Fiscal Q1 2009, essentially, sometime before the end of March. The mysterious game has received little coverage or promotion since its announcement at E3. However, the basic plot points have been revealed via various outlets and trailers: following a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Ubisoft and Techland have announced their collaboration in bringing "Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood", prequel to the original "Call of Juarez", to the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, sometime in 2009. The original title was a pretty good game. If very short and limited in scope, it did successfully realize a gritty Wild West, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 13, 2009
"James," a GameCyte reader, bought a copy of "Far Cry 2" PC the very same week it came out -- and has been wrangling with Ubisoft customer support to get that game to work ever since. But though the details of his struggle are interesting, that's not why he forwarded his entire tech support transcript to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 3, 2009
Today, I have finally seen the first 40 minutes of Far Cry 2 on PC. Or, to be more precise, I've seen the first two minutes of the game about twenty times in a row. That's because over two months after the game's release, I've finally figured out how to dispell The Jackal's Curse -- [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 20, 2008
The original Broken Sword, Shadow of the Templars as it is known, has been ported to almost as many platforms as Myst. Still, you can never have too many ports of a game. At least that's what Ubisoft think, so they have decided to bring it over to the Nintendo Wii, and even the DS. Developed [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
GameCyte reviews the latest reboot of the Prince of Persia franchise, and discovers whether or not the latest heir to the throne is fit to rule.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
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