Ubisoft News Articles
Tuesday16th Dec 2014
News Ubisoft Sticks a Hidden Blade in the Latest Assassin's Creed Unity Patch
Deadly delay
If you've not been paying attention, Assassin's Creed Unity's launch last month was as messy and convoluted as the franchise's storied timeline. Performance issues plagued the title, while
Monday17th Nov 2014
News Ubisoft's Latest Patch for Assassin's Creed Unity Is Its Biggest Yet
Goin' Rogue
If you haven't been paying attention, Assassin's Creed Unity was a bit of a technical mess at launch, with bugs ranging from annoying to genuinely horrifying. Ubisoft has been hot on the case, though, setting up a blog detailing exactly what
Friday7th Nov 2014
News This Assassin's Creed Unity Launch Trailer is Hilariously Melodramatic
Arno-body got time for that
As you are no doubt painfully aware, Assassin's Creed Unity will be free-running its way onto the PlayStation 4 very soon. The title, which has been developed for next-gen consoles exclusively, is the first in the long-running series to feature co-op, and this highly melodramatic launch trailer shows that element off...
Wednesday5th Nov 2014
News Here's Everything You Could Want to Know About Assassin's Creed Unity in 7 Minutes
To be Arno to be
We all knew this was coming eventually, and with Assassin's Creed Unity not far off, publisher Ubisoft must have decided that today was the day to drop a seven minute trailer which encompasses just about all of the title's features. From the city of Paris to co-op play, it's essentially all you need to know about the current-gen...
Thursday30th Oct 2014
News Who Let the Dogs Out? Watch Dogs has Shipped 9 Million Copies
Barking mad
Love it or hate it, Watch Dogs has been a huge success for Ubisoft. The new property, which sees you hacking your way through Chicago as a gruff cyber-hero out for revenge, was well received by both critics and consumers alike, and in the publisher's latest financial report, it's announced that the game has shipped nine million copies...
News Oh Dear, Assassin's Creed Unity Is Going to Mess with Time Travel
It was inevitable
Just when you thought that Assassin's Creed's overarching narrative couldn't possibly get any more convoluted, it looks like Assassin's Creed Unity is going to dabble in a bit of time travel. Sigh. We'll admit that the concept does seem quite cool — at least in trailer form — but it just seems like something that the franchise...
Wednesday29th Oct 2014
News Ubisoft Reckons You Wouldn't Want to Play an Assassin's Creed Game Set in Feudal Japan
A code of honour
For quite a while now, fans of Assassin's Creed have been pondering a title set in the East. An oriental excursion always sounded like a neat idea to us, but Ubisoft thinks it may be something that wouldn't hold much appeal. Speaking to Total Xbox, Assassin's Creed III creative director Alex Hutchinson remarked that a feudal...
Sunday12th Oct 2014
News This New Far Cry 4 Trailer Shows Off Kyrat's Colourful Characters
Kyrat race
There's a new Far Cry game on the horizon, which means that Ubisoft is hard at work sending us trailers every other day. We've not posted them all, of course, because we can only listen to so much marketing jargon and dubstep before we permanently reinvent the definition of insanity. But on a lazy - and decidedly slow - Sunday like today,...
Tuesday30th Sep 2014
News Hack To Your Heart's Content with This Watch Dogs: Bad Blood DLC Launch Trailer
Spoilers, probably
If Watch Dogs' main quest wasn't enough to satiate your appetite for deftly shattering computer software, never fear, as the title will soon be receiving extra downloadable content. Titled Bad Blood, the DLC will see you playing as Raymond 'T-Bone' Kenney, attempting to outrun his past demons. In order to drum up excitement,...
Wednesday3rd Sep 2014
News Watch Dogs' T-Bone Is Blowing Stuff Up on PS4 This Month
Fun guy
Watch Dog's first real expansion comes in the form of the Bad Blood DLC, which sees you playing as old rocker and technical genius T-Bone from the core game's main story. It's releasing on the 30th September, but if you've nabbed the title's season pass, you'll be able to play it a week earlier. Running around sporting an all-purpose...
Thursday28th Aug 2014
News Ubisoft Keeps its Blade Hidden by Delaying Assassin's Creed Unity into November
October's a bit lighter
A few months ago, October was looking like this year's most bloated period for new releases, but a few big delays later, and November is beginning to look like 2014's real heavy hitter. It may only be a relatively small delay of two weeks, but Ubisoft has saw fit to push back Assassin's Creed Unity all the same. The next-gen...
Friday22nd Aug 2014
News You Won't Have to Worry About Watch Dogs' Infamously Tedious Drinking Game Ever Again
New patch also extends single player content
Even those who haven't played a minute of Watch Dogs may have heard about its infamous drinking minigame, especially if you frequent popular gaming forums. The incredibly tedious optional activity has long been the bane of many a Platinum Trophy hunter, purely because of the awkward nature in which you...
Thursday21st Aug 2014
News Travel Through Time in Far Cry 4's Gorgeous New PS4 Trailer
Great Scott
Far Cry 4 looms large on the horizon, and in an attempt to raise the title's profile, developer Ubisoft recently released this nifty clip on the PlayStation Blog. While there isn't a truckload of new information here, it does give us a much better insight into the game's time-traveling mechanics. As the remarkab
Thursday14th Aug 2014
All Arno-thing
Yesterday we got our first proper look at last-gen only title Assassin's Creed Rogue courtesy of an eight minute gameplay trailer, but after seeing this 11 minute walkthrough for Assassin's Creed Unity, we're starting to really appreciate why publisher Ubisoft is keeping this one a current-gen exclusive. Simply put, the city of
Wednesday13th Aug 2014
Gamescom 2014 Assassin's Creed Rogue Looks a Heck of a Lot Like Black Flag
Glitch in the animus
With Assassin's Creed Unity stalking Paris later this year only on next-gen consoles, it's up to Assassin's Creed Rogue to fill in on the PlayStation 3. Other than some sparse gameplay details, we haven't had a good look at the last-gen stab-'em-up yet, but all that's changed thanks to an eight minute walkthrough from publisher...
Tuesday5th Aug 2014
Rumour Assassin's Creed: Rogue Will Clamber Onto the PS3 in November
Sneaky leak
Remember when games managed to last countless months – sometimes even years – without several high-profile leaks? No, neither do we. The latest in this growing trend of industry slipups is a trailer for Assassin's Creed: Rogue, the purported series entry planned to hit PlayStation 3 later this year. You can find the full clip through
Thursday31st Jul 2014
Rumour Will Watch Dogs' Newest DLC See You Hacking the Streets of New Jersey?
One to watch
If you feel like your square button hasn't been seeing enough love since you finished open world hack-'em-up Watch Dogs, never fear, as recent tweets from the title's official Twitter account suggest that it may be getting some new DLC. Intriguingly, the messages imply that the downloable extras may be set in an entirely separate city...
Monday14th Jul 2014
News Spark a Revolution on PS4 with Assassin's Creed Unity's New Gameplay Trailer
A different kind of red, white, and blue
Judging from Assassin's Creed Unity's newest trailer, the French really aren't happy about how their national team bowed out of the World Cup after a disappointing duel with eventual winners Germany. We joke, of course, but the clip that we've embedded is indeed full of rioting Frenchmen, much to the approval...
Thursday26th Jun 2014
News Rainbow Six Siege Aiming For Gender Equality When It Comes To Hapless Hostages
But female hostages were shown at E3 for "empathy"
Ubisoft's recent confirmation that Assassin's Creed: Unity won't feature playable female avatars caused quite a stir in the gaming press, and the company appears to have stumbled headlong into another gender controversy, this time relating to FPS title Rainbow Six: Siege. The recent demo of the...
News Ubisoft Wants Just Dance To Join League Of Legends And Dota In The eSport Ranks
Well it does involve physical activity, at least
eSports are growing in popularity all the time, with millions of viewers tuning in to watch the world's best players fight it out for glory. Unsurprisingly, publishers are looking to the eSport world as a way of increasing the stature of their biggest games, and Ubisoft is no exception — it has just...
Sunday15th Jun 2014
E3 2014 Don't Panic, Ubisoft Has Plenty of Plans for Assassin's Creed on PS3
New information coming soon
As it currently stands, the monumentally successful Assassin's Creed franchise has only been confirmed for the PlayStation 4, with the co-op outing Unity set to launch later this year. Indeed, Ubisoft marketing executive Tony Key has assured us that the title has been built from the ground up with t
Thursday12th Jun 2014
E3 2014 You'll All Be the Same Guy in Assassin's Creed: Unity's Multiplayer
Mirror image
We're sure you've already seen the footage of Assassin's Creed: Unity's multiplayer by now, demonstrated during Monday's press conferences. Since then, it's spawned queries around the internet as to whether our online appearance will be as varied as in previous titles. In a statement made by Ubisoft to Kotaku, there will be no running a
Tuesday10th Jun 2014
E3 2014 Tom Clancy's The Division Tugs at the Heart Strings in Story Trailer
Hits home
When we saw Tom Clancy's The Division at last year's E3 conference, it taught us to get along with our friends in order to screw others and rob their loot. While the title's massive online multiplayer and spangly companion app are still core to the game, though, so is the story that led humanity to such destruction. The trailer below...
E3 2014 Far Cry 4 Unleashes An Utterly Chaotic PS4 Gameplay Trailer
Mt. murder
Far Cry 3 was a rather chaotic game at times, and Far Cry 4 looks to settle into an equally ridiculous rhythm with its very first gameplay walkthrough. Shown at Sony's E3 2014 press conference without the accompanying commentary, we get a good look at just some of the trouble you can get yourself into within Ubisoft's upcoming open...
E3 2014 Valiant Hearts: The Great War Is Probably Going to Make You Cry
Who's been cutting onions?
We may be jaded, cynical, and incredibly tired after three huge press conferences, but that doesn't mean we're completely devoid of emotion. Indeed, the latest trailer for Ubisoft's gorgeous new puzzler Valiant Hearts: The Great War made us shed a collective tear. Telling the real-life story of several characters in the...
E3 2014 Assassin's Creed: Unity Takes Us on a Tour of Its Open World
7 minutes of gameplay up for stabbing
Following on from its earlier showing at Microsoft's press conference, Assassin's Creed: Unity has taken to the streets of Paris once again in a gameplay demo that spans over seven minutes. Taking up a sizeable portion of publisher Ubisoft's presser, the next-gen sequel shows off everything from incredibly...
E3 2014 The First Five Minutes of Far Cry 4 Are Fearsome and Fantastic
A Vaas improvement
In a press conference absolutely jam-packed with outstanding trailers, Far Cry 4 stood out as one of the most thrilling. Staring the franchise's newest super villain, the clip does a tremendously good job of showing off the tantalising title. At turns terrifying and charming, this eccentric antagonist has us utterly intrigued, and...
Monday9th Jun 2014
E3 2014 You'll Never Walk Alone in Assassin's Creed Unity
Heads will roll
There has been plenty of speculation about co-op since Assassin's Creed Unity's banners were spotted decorating Los Angeles for E3. During Microsoft's press conference, it was confirmed that players will be able to form their own Brotherhood with three friends online. That means that no longer will you have to hang your head in shame...
Sunday25th May 2014
News Ubisoft Has Strived for Historical Accuracy with Valiant Hearts: The Great War
War, huh – what is it good for?
Military shooters are dime a dozen these days, so it's nice to see a studio take a different approach to the ubiquitous subject matter. It's even more heartening when that title's publisher also happens to be more famously known for its annual franchises. Perhaps most exciting of all, though, is when that game will...
Tuesday13th May 2014
News This 9 Minute Watch Dogs Trailer Showcases Everything the PS4 Open World Offers
Keep watching
As we've come to expect from Ubisoft, upcoming sandbox romp Watch Dogs has had its fair share of trailers. Much like Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag before it, the publisher has shown off just about every feature that the title has to offer through promotional media, and this latest look at the release is no different. Lasting over...
