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News For Honor Is Crossing Blades with Assassin's Creed in Special In-Game Event
For the Creed
Ubisoft is a publisher that isn't shy about merging its games together in fun ways. We recall references to Assassin's Creed cropping up in other mainstays like Watch Dogs and Far Cry, but this latest example is perhaps the most direct crossover yet. A special, three-week event has just begun in medieval combat game For Honor, and it...
News You Can Play The Crew 2 for Free this Weekend on PS4
Unlock a new car too
Remember The Crew 2? Ubisoft has been continuing to support its open world racer since release back in June, and if you've been on the fence this whole time, here's some good news. From today through to Sunday 16th December, you'll be able to play this expansive racing game for free on PS4. What's more, if you do take part in...
News Beyond Good and Evil 2 Looks Ambitious and Massive in New Gameplay Video
The planetary system is your oyster
Beyond Good & Evil 2 still seems so far off, doesn't it? The project does seem to be making some progress, however, as Ubisoft recently held a live stream in which it went over the current state of the game. If you don't have an hour to spare, the publisher has pieced together an abridged version that hits all...
News You Can Explore More Than Just Hope County in Far Cry: New Dawn on PS4
Check out new gameplay footage
Far Cry: New Dawn was one of the larger games to be announced during The Game Awards 2018, and while some felt an entry set in a post-apocalypse was a little uninspired, it's not looking too bad. This new gameplay video from Game Informer features about seven minutes of footage, and while it looks exactly as
The Game Awards 2018 Far Cry: New Dawn Drops the Bomb in February 2019
All the RAGE
Congrats if you guessed that Far Cry: New Dawn would release before RAGE 2 next year, because it will. Ubisoft's next open world adventure is due to launch on the 15th February 2019, and it'll hit with the lower price point of $39.99 rather than full retail. The game got its first trailer at The Game Awards 2018, and it looks... Well,...
Review Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade - Episode 1: Hunted - Off to a Good Start
To the point
Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade - Episode 1: Hunted (there's no way in heck we're writing that again) is the first chapter of downloadable content for Odyssey -- a game that's already fit to burst with... Everything. Fortunately, Hunted does enough to stand out as its own little slice of adventure, ensuring that it...
News Far Cry: New Dawn's Cover Art Leaks Ahead of Reveal
Feel the RAGE
A new Far Cry game will be announced during The Game Awards 2018 later today, and here’s your very first look at it. The box – which boasts the name Far Cry: New Dawn – shows two ladies sat on a sofa, while a man chained to the roof of a car screams out for help. One of the women appears to be wearing roller skate pads, while the...
News Post-Apocalyptic Far Cry Game to Be Announced at The Game Awards 2018
Wait what
Wow, this came out of nowhere. Ubisoft has revealed that a new Far Cry game will be announced tomorrow at The Game Awards 2018... And it's got a post-apocalyptic setting? No, you read that right -- there's gonna be a new Far Cry game that takes place, going by the teaser trailer, after a nuclear apocalypse. We don't know how much of it...
News Former Dragon Age Creative Director Now Working at Ubisoft on Unannounced Project
Ubisoft RPG incoming?
Mike Laidlaw, one of the main creative minds behind much of the Dragon Age series, left BioWare around a year ago. Since then, he's been working as a consultant throughout the industry, but now he's back at a major studio. Today, Laidlaw's revealed that he's actually landed a job at Ubisoft Quebec as creative director on a...
Review Rayman - An 'Armless PSone Platforming Treat
Ray-manifestation of UbiArt
Even twenty years ago, any love felt towards PSone Rayman's luscious art style could quickly turn into hate due to its spikily relentless difficulty barrier, but a cathartic sense of satisfaction could also be found by perseverant gamers who endured to conquer all eighteen of its levels. As a December 1995 EU launch...
Review Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - Not a PS Classic, But Interesting Nonetheless
Back to basics
Believe it or not, but there was a time when the Tom Clancy game franchise that haemorrhaged titles in the 2000s was actually less popular than the legendary novelist himself. Even by the late 90s, only a handful of games based on his books had come out – most of them Hunt for the Red October submarine sims. That all changed in...
News Next Assassin's Creed Odyssey Patch Adds New Features and Finally Fixes PS4 Screenshot Bug
Photo mode engaged
Ubisoft has detailed the next update for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which is apparently set to release tomorrow. Patch 1.1 brings a few new features, including a 'Mastery Level' system. This'll let you spend ability points on new hunter, warrior, and assassin statistics when you're at level 50 or over. It should add a new dimension...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey's First DLC Episode Launches Next Week
Legacy of the First Blade begins
The first episode of Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade launches next week, Ubisoft has revealed. There'll be three episodes in all, with the latter two episodes set to release in 2019. According to the press release, Legacy of the First Blade will include a brand new story, new characters, new...
The odyssey continues
Ubisoft has released the patch notes for Assassin's Creed Odyssey's big November update. Patch 1.07, which is due to release tomorrow (that's the 15th November, just in case you're reading this later), weighs in at a reasonable 2.5GB, but it's huge in terms of what it brings to the game. The headline acts here are an increased...
News Rainbow Six: Siege Available to Play for Free This Weekend on PS4
From today
If you've ever been curious about the popularity of Rainbow Six: Siege, now's your chance to find out. Ubisoft is opening up its beloved tactical shooter to all players this weekend, letting those who don't own the game take it for a spin. You'll be able to download and play Siege from today until Sunday 18th November on PS4, and it...
Interview Swan-Diving into the Music of Assassin's Creed Odyssey with Composers, The Flight
A musical odyssey
We recently had the chance to sit down and chat with the composer for the newest title in Ubisoft's long-running juggernaut of a series, Assassin's Creed. Joe Henson and Alexis Smith, known as The Flight, have lent their talents to many titles prior to this, including Horizon: Zero Dawn, Alien: Isolation, and even previous...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Adds a New Late-Game Boss, Victory Gets You a Legendary Bow
Eye eye
If you're somehow pining for more content in the unbelievably gigantic Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Ubisoft has your back. Newly added to the game is an optional boss named Steropes, and yes, he's a bloody cyclops. Defeating him in battle will net you a legendary bow, but be warned: he's quite high level. This fresh boss encounter is free for...
News X Games DLC Brings Fresh Events and More to Steep on PS4
Sick
Remember Steep? Ubisoft's freeform winter sports game didn't exactly rock the boat when it launched a couple of years back, but it's a fun title with plenty to do, and more is being added over time. The latest DLC brings the X Games to the Alaskan slopes, adding a competitive flair and lots of new events and challenges to tackle. As you can...
As well as new missions
Ubisoft said that it would be supporting Assassin's Creed Odyssey for a long time to come, and it's already off to a good start. In a new video, which we've embedded above, the developer clues us in on what's coming to the game throughout November. Alongside the recently released patch 1.06, there are additional quests in the...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Weekly Mercenary Events Put on Hold Again
Now due later this month
Ubisoft's not having a great time trying to get these live events in Assassin's Creed Odyssey to work. The title's first mercenary event was cancelled after the developer couldn't get it into everyone's game, and so it was pushed into the next week. However, problems have arisen again, and now, it's been shoved even further...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey PS4 Patch 1.06 Adds a New Quest, Increases Mercenary Tier Rewards
The odyssey continues
Assassin's Creed Odyssey update 1.06 is out on PlayStation 4 today (the 1st November), and it brings with it the game's first additional quest. Part of a series of free missions dubbed The Lost Tales of Greece, Ubisoft has said previously that these story-based outings will be added to the title on a regular basis. Hopefully...
News New Assassin's Creed Odyssey Trophies Point to Free Content Update Coming Soon
The Lost Tales of Greece, we assume
Well this is interesting. Ubisoft seems to have added two new Trophies to Assassin's Creed Odyssey. They fall under a category called 'Additional Feats', and we assume that they're part of some free content drop that the developer has planned. It's probably something to do with 'The Lost Tales of Greece' -- a...
News SoulCalibur VI Sells 80 Per Cent of Its UK Physical Copies on PS4
Starlink, however, manages just 10 per cent
SoulCalibur VI proved once again that the PlayStation 4 is the home of fighting games, moving a whopping 80 per cent of its physical UK copies on Sony’s system. However, the wider picture doesn’t tell a particularly positive tale, as retail sales of the brawler were down 55 per cent at launch compared...
Review Starlink: Battle for Atlas - A Decent Space Romp Cluttered with Plastic
Toys that aren't so lively
The toys-to-life fad that fuelled the likes of Disney Infinity, Lego Dimensions, and Skylanders died out years ago, didn’t it? Apparently not, because here we are in 2018 with a brand new product line on the market. Starlink: Battle for Atlas, from French behemoth Ubisoft, releases alongside a slew of physical space...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey PS4 Patch 1.05 Brings Stability to Greece, Fixes Another Crash
Another one
As expected, Ubisoft is dishing out updates for Assassin's Creed Odyssey on a regular basis. This latest patch is another small one, coming in at just 160MB. According to the patch notes, update 1.05 "improves stability" and fixes "and issue that led to crashes to dashboard on PS4". Hopefully the game won't need many more of these and...
News This Is What Assassin's Creed Odyssey's Alexios and Kassandra Look and Sound Like in Real Life
Greek chic
Regardless of who you choose to play as in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Alexios and Kassandra are both really good leads. They've got sharp dialogue, and it's all tied together with some wonderful voice acting. And in this latest Odyssey video, we get to meet the two actors behind the Greek heroes. It's a relatively short video but it's...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey's First Live Event Has Been Cancelled
Try again next week
Unfortunately, the first live event for Assassin's Creed Odyssey has been cancelled. It was meant to start earlier this week on the 16th October, giving players the chance to hunt down and kill a powerful mercenary by the name of Damais, but Ubisoft's been forced to abandon its plans following technical issues. It's a bit of a...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey PS4 Patch 1.0.4 Promises More Fixes
Only a little one
Ubisoft's committed to squashing bugs quickly with Assassin's Creed Odyssey, it seems. Another update has hit PlayStation 4, but this one only weighs in at around 160MB. Patch 1.0.4 promises more fixes and improvements to the game's stability. Again, Ubisoft says that "more detailed patch notes" are still in the works, and they'll...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey's Rare But Massive Frame Rate Drops Remain Unfixed After Patch 1.0.3
And more players are reporting it
We've spent over 75 hours with Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and in all of that time, we've stumbled across a particularly nasty bug twice. Well, we call it a bug but we're not really sure what it is. All we know is that during two especially large fights in two especially large enemy camps, enemies started clipping...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Live In-Game Events Begin Next Week, Offer Epic Rewards
A mercenary's work is never done
Much like Assassin's Creed Origins, Ubisoft plans on supporting Assassin's Creed Odyssey for a long time. In addition to the season pass content and numerous free updates, the developer will also be keeping players supplied with "Live Events", which are basically set missions that appear in the game world every now...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Sets New Series Sales Record
Well, that's the headline Ubisoft wants us to use
“Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has topped franchise sales records for the current generation*,” publisher Ubisoft has exclaimed in a press release. The caveat is that the organisation’s working off overall revenue rather than unit numbers – and it’s throwing players’ “recurring...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey PS4 Patch 1.0.3 Has Quality of Life Improvements, Fixes, More
The odyssey continues
There's an update for Assassin's Creed Odyssey available to download now on PlayStation 4. Patch 1.0.3 weighs in at around 2GB, and promises "quality of life and usability improvement features". Yeah, we're not totally sure what that means, either. The update also "addresses various 'game breaking' issues that could happen in...
Guide Best Assassin's Creed Games Ranked
Blade runner
Ah, Assassin's Creed. The success of Ubisoft's massively popular open world series is partly responsible for pushing the publisher up near the very top of the industry food chain, where it now sits alongside the likes of EA and Activision. But as is the case with any long standing franchise, Creed has had its ups and downs. Some of its...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Players Hit with Weird PS4 Capture Gallery Bug
Videos and screenshots won't load
Well this is one of the weirdest bugs we've seen in quite some time. We've received multiple reports stating that taking screenshots and videos in Assassin's Creed Odyssey using the PlayStation 4's built-in capture system is breaking the console's capture gallery. Funnily enough, we've been having the exact same...
News Assassin's Creed III Remastered Has Higher Resolution Textures, New Character Models
Tweaked gameplay, too
Ubisoft appears to be going further than the bare minimum for Assassin’s Creed III Remastered, which will launch next year as part of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s packed Season Pass. Writing on a support page, the French publisher confirmed that the re-release will boast tweaked gameplay based on player feedback, as well as...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Sales Down 26% from Origins At UK Retail
Tales from my Kass
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey sold 26 per cent fewer copies than its predecessor Assassin’s Creed Origins at UK retail, representing a downturn in physical sales for the series. It’s perhaps worth nothing that the title is releasing earlier in the year than Bayek’s Egyptian adventure, which deployed on 27th October, 2017. This...
Liam's loving the lack of stabilisers
The sheer existence of Assassin's Creed Odyssey's exploration mode feels like acceptance from French publisher Ubisoft. After a generation of games plagued by the "Ubisoft formula" of climbing towers to unlock new missions and locations, side activities that flood the map with icons, and sprawling skill trees,...
Review Assassin's Creed Odyssey - A Masterclass in Open World Design
Kraken good fun
After the deserved success of Assassin's Creed Origins, someone at Ubisoft must have decided to replay The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Bayek's Egyptian adventure had already borrowed heavily from CD Projekt Red's masterpiece, but Assassin's Creed Odyssey doubles down on every role-playing mechanic that it can. The result is an open world...
News Ubisoft Jokes About Assassin's Creed Odyssey Not Being a 'Proper Assassin's Creed Game'
Alexios isn't pleased
Ubisoft's marketing team's had a lot of fun with the Assassin's Creed Odyssey ad campaign. It made a very dumb but funny ad for an Odyssey-themed Amazon Alexa, in which Alexios, the game's male protagonist, lives alongside a modern family. Well worth a watch. And now the company's followed up with another video featuring...
News Ubisoft Boss Says It's Looking Into Bringing Multiplayer Back to Assassin's Creed
If the tech is there
The Assassin's Creed games had online multiplayer for a time, but it was eventually ditched somewhere along the line. It was quite an enjoyable way to play, with a spin on typical multiplayer modes that saw players hiding from, stalking, and assassinating each other. In a new interview with Game Informer, Ubisoft's chief...
Round Up Assassin's Creed Odyssey PS4 Reviews Paint an Epic Picture
Set sail
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is only a few days away, which can only mean one thing: reviews. Only a year out from Assassin's Creed Origins, there have been concerns over Odyssey, but going by what critics are saying, Ubisoft has pulled off another spectacular adventure. The game's being praised for its incredibly detailed open world, its...
Hands On Starlink: Battle for Atlas Shows Promise That Could Prove Costly
Toys to life
As a concept, it feels like Starlink: Battle for Atlas is three years late to the party. The toys to life fad died out a long time ago, and so to see a title basing itself around the act of collecting weapons and ships out in the real world in the year 2018 almost seems like a foolish business decision to us. We got a chance to sample...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Gets a Suitably Epic Launch Trailer
Adventure awaits
What the heck is this? Ubisoft releasing a new video before 5PM here in the UK? Absolute madness. The French publisher is no stranger to really good trailers, and this launch trailer for Assassin's Creed Odyssey really gets the blood pumping. We could maybe do without the quotes from websites not named Push Square, but whatever...
Orthanc was a Ubisoft tower?
Transference is one of those games that’s best experienced knowing as little about what awaits you as possible. As such, we intend to remain as vague as possible when it comes to discussing narrative threads and consequences, while still giving you a good idea of how the experience adds up as a whole. Although, with...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Has a Lust for Life in New Live Action Trailer
Player choice and all that
We're quickly approaching the Assassin's Creed Odyssey release date, and that can only mean one thing: an avalanche of media courtesy of Ubisoft. The publisher's pumped out a new trailer, this time live action, in which we get to see Alexios do a lot of stuff while a sarcastic cockney talks over the action. The whole...
News Latest EU PS Store Sale Offers Up Discounts on Ubisoft Games
These games certainly aren't Steep
The European PlayStation Store has been refreshed with a brand new sale, and this time, it's the turn of Ubisoft's PS4 catalogue to be thrown in the bargain bin. Most of the publisher's titles are going cheap, and as you might expect, it's an eclectic mix. Headlining this sale are games like Assassin's Creed...
News Assassin's Creed Odyssey Is Finished and Ready for Release
Ice gold, baby
Wait, is this coming out soon? Good grief, there really is no let up, is there? Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has gone gold, which means that development is complete and the title is ready for manufacturing ahead of its 5th October release. “We hope you'll enjoy playing the game as much as we did developing it and can't wait to see...
News Huge Assassin's Creed Odyssey Post-Launch Plans Feature Episodic Stories and Free Updates
Big fat Greek roadmap
As previously reported, Ubisoft has big plans for Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The publisher is no stranger to strong post-launch support, but the upcoming open world outing is arguably its most ambitious endeavour yet. Okay, so Odyssey launches on the 5th October, and of course it'll have a season pass. Buying that gets you...
News Assassin's Creed III Stages a Remastered Revolution on PS4
PS Vita spin-off Liberation also being ported
The divisive American Revolution instalment in the Assassin’s Creed series is coming to the PlayStation 4 next March, with all of its DLC included and enhanced visuals. Part of the Season Pass for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you’ll be able to relive the 18th Century tale of Connor in Assassin's Creed...
You're on your own
Ubisoft is trying something new with Assassin's Creed Odyssey, giving players a choice between two modes of play at the start of the game. One is 'Guided Mode', and the other is 'Exploration Mode'. Regardless of which mode you choose the actual content of the game doesn't change, but your journey through the open world may...