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News Succumb to the Sands of Time in Assassin's Creed Origins
The prince of persia
Assassin’s Creed Origins has landed a second cinematic trailer, this time focusing on sand. There’s probably a visual metaphor buried in here, but we’ll just summarise it in a straight-forward manner: holy moly, everyone and everything is turning into bleedin’ sand. To be honest, this is a great trailer, but we can’t...
News Learn All About Ancient Egypt in Free Assassin's Creed Origins Update
Assassins turned edutainment
Assassin’s Creed Origins promises to teach you about the history of Ancient Egypt with a free update due out in 2018. The bonus content – named Discovery Tour – will allow you to free-roam the title’s entire map without combat or obstruction, enabling you to take “guided tours curated by historians and...
Hands On Can Assassin's Creed Origins Revive Ubisoft's Stealth Series?
By 'eck
Someone at Ubisoft’s been busy playing The Witcher III: Wild Hunt. Though the anticipated Assassin’s Creed Origins whisks you away to the wide open expanses of Egypt, you can sense the White Wolf watching over this surprisingly RPG leaning iteration of the French publisher’s stealth series. Our demo is a perfect example of that:...
Hands On Far Cry 5 Sticks to the Tried and Tested Formula
A stronger party cabinet
If Ubisoft were to give another one of its franchises a bit of a break and a slight reboot, the Far Cry series has to be a prime candidate. Despite entry numbers three and four being fairly high in quality, they followed the Ubisoft open world formula to a tee, with only a radical setting change being the main...
News South Park: The Fractured But Whole Is Finally Ready to Meet Its Release Date
Ubisoft says the game's gone gold
Bloody hell, it's about time. Ubisoft has announced that South Park: The Fractured But Whole has gone gold, meaning that development is complete and the game's ready to be shipped. The swear-ridden role-playing sequel is out for PlayStation 4 on the 17th October, so it's not very far away now. To celebrate,...
News Rainbow Six: Siege's PS4 Patch Is Busting Entire PS4 Consoles
Maybe don't download it
The new patch for Rainbow Six: Siege is probably best avoided for now, as there are reports that it’s bricking entire PlayStation 4 consoles. While the severity of the problems range from simple crashes all the way through to wiped hard drives, we’d recommend giving Y2S3.1 a wide berth until things are fixed. It all...
News Assassin's Creed Origins' Enemies Sound Like a Nasty Lot
Mask murder
There are a group of mysterious masked mercenaries controlling Egypt from the shadows – and you’re going to bring them down, one hidden blade to the throat at a time. Seriously, this new Assassin’s Creed Origins trailer is uber-cool. Who are the Order of the Ancients? What is their objective? And how do they relate to the series’...
News South Park: The Fractured But Whole's Difficulty Settings Change Your Character's Skin Colour
No joke
Eurogamer reports that selecting the difficulty setting at the start of South Park: The Fractured But Whole changes the colour of your custom character's skin. Yes, you read that right, and you can see it for yourself in the video that we've embedded above. The game's difficulty slider ranges from 'easy' to 'very difficult', and...
Review Child of Light (PlayStation 4)
Painted paradise
Republished on Wednesday 30th August 2017: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of September's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. Child of Light, a new two-dimensional role-playing game from Ubisoft, is best described using the titles that it was so...
Gamescom 2017 Assassin's Creed Origins' Story Is All About Politics and War
Original
Ubisoft's wheeled out another Assassin's Creed Origins trailer. This one tells us of the game's overarching, broader stories, which feature the likes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. As you'd expect, there's a lot of political intrigue to be had as the most powerful figures of the time compete for control of Egypt. Ubisoft's series has...
Gamescom 2017 The Crew 2 Goes on a Bumpy Ride from 16th March
Air, land, and sea
The Crew 2 will start its engine on 16th March, publisher Ubisoft has announced. Revealed at E3 2017, the racing game takes the open world format of its predecessor – and adds boats, bikes, and planes into the equation. Pre-order and you’ll nab the Mercedes-AMG C 63 Touring Car 2016 and Harley-Davidson Iron 883 2017 vehicles,...
Gamescom 2017 Oh Mummy! Assassin's Creed Origins' CG Trailer Is Worth a Watch
Feeling Egyptian
Ubisoft loves a good cinematic trailer, and that's what it debuted for Assassin's Creed Origins during Microsoft's rather low-key Gamescom 2017 livestream thing this evening. This one really sets the scene on the forthcoming Egyptian adventure, and concludes with protagonist Bayek acting all bad ass. The game's out in October...
News Assassin's Creed Origins' Completely New Combat System Explained
Deeper than ever before
In case you didn't already know, combat is completely different in Assassin's Creed Origins compared to previous games in the series. No longer are you able to pull off kill-chains with the tap of a button, or watch as your hero glides into position and delivers killing blow after killing blow. Indeed, the whole thing's gone...
News For Honor Offers Up a Free Trial on PS4 This Weekend
Staying sharp
Ubisoft's really trying to push For Honor back into people's good books. Last month, the publisher revealed its plans for the future of the game, presenting a detailed roadmap on upcoming content and other additions, like the introduction of dedicated servers. Building on that reveal, the company's announced that the title's going to...
News Assassin's Creed Origins Won't Have You Instantly Fail Missions if You're Detected
Thank god for that
Insta-fail stealth missions have been a pain in our arse since the birth of Assassin's Creed, so we're overjoyed to hear that Assassin's Creed Origins is supposedly doing away with them. IGN's uploaded 18 minutes of gameplay from the upcoming open world title, and during the video, director Ashraf Ismail mentions that such...
News Ghost Recon: Wildlands Spots a 5 Hour Free Trial on PS4
Tango yankee
It may not win many headlines these days, but a lot of people are still buying and playing Ghost Recon: Wildlands. If you'd like to see what kind of stuff the masses are getting up to, then you may be interested in knowing that Ubisoft's launched a trail version of the game, which you can now download from the PlayStation...
News You'll Explore 'Authentic' Egyptian Tombs in Assassin's Creed Origins
Call of the mummy
Assassin's Creed Origins protagonist Bayek ain't afraid of no creepy curses, as he'll have the ability to raid Egyptian tombs in the upcoming open world title. In the latest issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine, game director Ashraf Ismail says that tombs are making a return, offering up a mix of puzzles and platforming...
News Ubisoft Isn't Giving Up on For Honor Yet, Dedicated Servers Planned
War eternal
When we look back over the year so far, it's hard to think of many reasonably hyped games that managed to fall off the radar faster than For Honor. The medieval action-fighting hybrid was met with favourable reviews and a decent amount of public interest, but it was quickly picked apart and largely left behind by a community that wasn't...
News Skull & Bones Isn't an Assassin's Creed Spin-Off Because Ubisoft Didn't Want Limits
A pirate's life
When Skull & Bones was revealed during Ubisoft's E3 2017 press conference, we're sure that a lot of viewers were sitting there wondering if it was a another pirate-themed Asssassin's Creed game. After all, the project is based on the tech that we originally saw in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, right down to the foundation of...
News Ghost Recon: Wildlands Goes Rogue with a Player-Versus-Player Open Beta
Ghost War drops for free later this year
Ubisoft said that it would be bringing player-versus-player modes to Ghost Recon: Wildlands ages ago, and now the publisher finally looks ready to deliver on its promise. The open world co-op stealth-shooter remains the best-selling release of 2017 thus far, so the ongoing support is hardly surprising. That...
News Ubisoft Games Are Selling Way Better on PS4 Than on Other Platforms
PS4 share sees a jump over 2016
Ubisoft games have always performed well on the PlayStation 4, and going by the publisher's latest financial report, that fact's not going to change anytime soon. In this quarter of 2016, 31 per cent of Ubisoft's game sales were on PS4 -- an already big share that's actually jumped this year. Sony's console accounted...
News This Beyond Good & Evil 2 Gameplay Proves It's a Real Thing
Ubisoft shows 15 mins of footage
Good news everyone, Beyond Good & Evil 2 isn't just a CG trailer. The project may still be very early in development, but Ubisoft does have a playable prototype of the game, which was apparently shown behind closed doors at E3 2017. You can catch 15 minutes of it above. It's clear that a lot of what's on display...
News Ubisoft Pirate Game Skull & Bones Has Both PvE and PvP Modes
It's online only, though
Ubisoft has shared a load details on Skull & Bones - the pirate game that it showed off at E3 2017. Essentially built around the naval combat system of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, it's a project that initially attracted a lot of attention, although we feel like much of that positivity went down the drain when people...
E3 2017 This Is How The Crew 2's Motorsport Triathlons Work
One way or another
One of the more bemusing announcements of E3 2017: The Crew 2 has boats now – and planes. As strong believers that Jet Moto deserves a reboot, this actually interests us – but how the feck does it all work? Simple, really – it adopts a triathlon format, flinging you from one discipline to the next in an attempt to hold...
Feature All the E3 2017 Press Conferences Rated and Reviewed
Not exactly a bumper year
E3 2017 has come to a conclusion, which means that it’s time for us to look back on all of the big media briefings and dish out our all-important report card. Which publisher passed its summer exam – and which will be sitting a re-test before term starts again? Here are our grades for the four big PlayStation press...
Soapbox Publishers Can't Bloody Win When It Comes to E3
Ramsey's sick of the hypocrites
I write about video games for a living, so I'm used to seeing people overreact on the internet. I've grown accustomed to seeing people spew hilarious hyperbole on a regular basis - hell, I've done it myself - but there's something about E3 that rubs me the wrong way. Namely, the annual Los Angeles event brings out...
E3 2017 We're Not Entirely Sure What It Is, But Beyond Good & Evil 2 Is Coming to PS4
We think so, anyway
Beyond Good & Evil 2 could have been E3 2017’s Game of the Show based on its reveal trailer alone, but everything outside of that has been a little bit murky, hasn’t it? Ubisoft Montpellier’s long-awaited sequel hasn’t exactly been detailed in the most effective manner, with talk of a “seamless open world” and...
E3 2017 Walk the Dog with Far Cry 5 Gameplay Demo
Eat lead
Sony’s uploaded a meaty chunk of unedited Far Cry 5 gameplay running on the PlayStation 4, which shows one full combat encounter from start to finish. As is tradition for the franchise, it’s all about approaching the scenario how you want to, and in this clip the dog Boomer plays a big part in scouting out enemies – and even has a...
E3 2017 By the Light of Ra, Assassin's Creed Origins' Legendary Edition Costs £700
No, seriously
Yep, you read that headline right - Assassin's Creed Origins' Legendary Edition costs £700. Seven hundred British pounds. Ubisoft's at it again with a whole selection of special editions, and yes, it's published another bloody chart to help you decide which one is for you. Check it out below so that we don't have to try and make...
Gallery Oh, Mummy! Assassin's Creed Origins Screenshots Look Stunning
A pharaoh feast for the eyes
Assassin’s Creed Origins is heading to Ancient Egypt, and on the back of this week’s reveal, Ubisoft has provided us with some bullsho—er, screenshots of the game. If you like what you see, don't forget to check out the title's E3 2017 trailer through here. <screenshots...
Round Up Every Announcement and Trailer from Ubisoft's E3 2017 Press Conference
Live by the Creed
Ubisoft’s just wrapped up its E3 2017 press conference, where it showed dozens of games, including Assassin’s Creed Origins, Far Cry 5, and The Crew 2. In addition, the publisher also revealed a couple of new games, such as the long-awaited Beyond Good & Evil 2 and pirate simulation Skull & Bones. Here’s every...
E3 2017 Starlink: Battle for Atlas Is an Intergalactic Toys-to-Life Space Sim
No Man's Skylanders
In a genuinely surprising move, Ubisoft announced a new entry in the toys-to-life genre at its E3 2017 press conference today. Titled Starlink: Battle for Atlas, the game appears to be a space combat sim in which you deck out your ship using real-life model spaceships. The trailer's a little unclear, but it seems as if the...
E3 2017 Steep Gets an Official Winter Olympics Expansion Pack
Snow news day
Ubisoft's multiplayer winter sports title Steep had its first game expansion unveiled at the publisher's E3 2017 press conference, and it's all about the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. Entitled 'Road to the Olympics', the expansion brings all new sports to the game, such as halfpipe, slalom, and ski cross to name a few. It's out in...
E3 2017 Beyond Good & Evil 2 Really Is Happening After All
Revealed with stunning trailer
It had seemed for the longest time as though the elusive sequel to PS2 cult classic Beyond Good & Evil would never happen. But it actually jumped out of hiding today during Ubisoft's E3 press conference via a stunning trailer. A teary-eyed Michel Ancel – series creator who is also famed for the colourful...
E3 2017 Face a Fractured Family in Transference for PlayStation VR
Virtual insanity
Going to be honest with you, we’re not entirely sure what Transference is. The things we can tell you is that it’s a PlayStation VR game starring Macon Blair, and it’s being developed by Ubisoft Montreal in collaboration with Elijah Woods’ company SpectreVision. From what we can tell, this game aims to blend movies with...
E3 2017 Travel to Ancient Egypt With Assassin's Creed Origins' New Trailer
Ooo Ra Ra
Ubisoft showed off another trailer for Assassin's Creed Origins in its E3 press conference today. It's another one of these pre-rendered affairs, complete with dramatic music and fast edits. Still, it gives us a nice look into the game's lush world. Will you be swooping up Assassin's Creed Origins when it launches later this year?
E3 2017 Ubisoft Debuts Far Cry 5 Gameplay in New Trailer
Amazing grace
After a somewhat controversial game reveal last month, Ubisoft has now treated us to the first gameplay trailer for Far Cry 5. In it, we see two players coordinating an ambush on the cultists as they terrorise some captors. A fully co-op campaign is a big feature of Far Cry 5, which Ubisoft is clearly keen to highlight. We also see...
E3 2017 The Crew 2 Looks Like an Automotive Playground on PS4
Land, sea, and air
Ubisoft has shown off a new cinematic trailer and the first gameplay of the sequel to its online multiplayer racing game, The Crew. It seems that they'll be upping the ante this time around, however, as you'll not only be competing on land, but also in the water and in the sky. The gameplay teaser shows off a little of...
E3 2017 Ubisoft Announces Multiplayer Pirate Game, Skull & Bones
Black flag
Remember Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag? Remember how the best bit about it was navigating the high seas with your scurvy-laden crew, and getting into naval scraps for treasure? Well, Ubisoft Singapore does, and Skull & Bones is precisely that. The big difference, though, is that this new pirate adventure is set in a shared...
Talking Point Did Ubisoft's E3 2017 Press Conference Bedazzle You?
Oooh?
That’s another press conference done, dusted, and put to bed – but what did you think of Ubisoft’s showcase this time? The briefing centred on Assassin’s Creed Origins, Far Cry 5, and The Crew 2, but we also got a glimpse of Beyond Good & Evil 2 and Skull & Bones. But what did you think of the keynote? Do you think Ubisoft...
Live Watch Ubisoft's E3 2017 Press Conference Right Here
Assassin's Creed! Far Cry! The Crew! Splinter Cell?
Press conference season is coming to a close, but there are still a couple of big keynotes to look forward to. Ubisoft’s big E3 2017 media briefing is next up, where we’re expecting to see lots of Assassin’s Creed Origins, Far Cry 5, The Crew 2, and a few surprises to boot. The action will...
E3 2017 Assassin's Creed Origins Is Definitely Real, Definitely Set in Egypt
Gameplay looks nice, too
In perhaps the least surprising reveal of E3 so far, Ubisoft has finally confirmed that yes, the new Assassin's Creed game is set in Egypt, and yes, it is called Assassin's Creed Origins. The big reveal occurred at Microsoft's E3 press conference today, and included a neat gameplay video showing off eagles, crocodiles, and...
News Assassin's Creed Origins Leak Dates Game for 27th October
Egyptian title to star camels
We wonder when the last time was that Ubisoft was able to actually announce an Assassin's Creed without a leak? The upcoming Game Informer magazine has revealed that Egyptian instalment Assassin's Creed Origins will release on 27th October. Whoops. More details are now being corroborated by those who have...
News Assassin's Creed Origins Reservation Cards Reveal More About the Game
Tut Tut-ankhamun
The leaked trailer may have turned out to be false, but the tee was totally real. And we’re pretty sure this reservation card for Assassin’s Creed Origins is legit as well. It’s for the obligatory Gold Edition of the game, and was spotted at Target. In addition to a look at the protagonist and the title’s Egyptian setting...
Hands On Star Trek: Bridge Crew Sets Phasers to Fun
First impressions of incredible PlayStation VR title
Sorry for the outdated pun, but as explained in the video above, this author knows next to nothing about Star Trek. That’s what makes Star Trek: Bridge Crew – Ubisoft’s latest PlayStation VR title – so impressive: if a complete sci-fi schlub can love it, then Trekkies are going to be all...
News Ubisoft Made a Funny with This E3 2017 Teaser Trailer
Full lineup (almost) revealed
How do you hype people for your E3 2017 press conference when all of the good stuff is still secret? You drop an on-the-nose funny about exactly that. To be fair, this clip is pretty good, with boss Yves Guillemot even referring to it as “iconic” before having second thoughts. Inside joke. The publisher’s presser...
News Ubisoft Has a New Logo and a Pretentious Explanation for It
French swirl
Ubisoft’s got a new logo that’s… Virtually identical to the old one. The purple swirl that you may have become accustomed to seeing at the start of Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs, or Far Cry is now a transparent white swirl. The font’s different, too, so there’s that. But why all this change? Here’s what the publisher had...
News Assassin's Creed Origins' Protagonist, Time Period Leaks
Walk like an Egyptian
At this point, it must be on purpose, right? All organisations endure leaks from time to time, but French publisher Ubisoft just can’t seem to plug them; it’s a good job it’s not a boat, otherwise it would have been at the bottom of the ocean a long time ago. Anyway, a video has leaked to YouTube showing the opening...
News Meet the Resistance Hoping to Bring Happiness Back to Far Cry 5's Hope County
Time to fight back
What do you do when a cult of religious zealots take root in the idyllic American Midwest and start killing your family? Fight back, of course. Ubisoft has released a series of Far Cry 5 character vignettes, each illustrating the cast's unique reason for battling for the fictional district of Hope County. They’re pretty well put...
News Far Cry 5 Locks and Loads with Full Reveal Trailer, Release Date, and Gameplay Details
It's dangerous up North
Ubisoft's blown Far Cry 5 wide open with a load of fresh information. First off, we've got the game's full reveal trailer, which you can watch above. As expected, we're looking at a religious cult that's up to no good in the North American wilderness. It's got guns, airplanes, explosions, a load of creepy characters, and...