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News Rainbow Six: Quarantine, Far Cry 6 Still Planned for Release This Year
The Quarantine name may be changed
Ubisoft has confirmed in its latest earnings call that it still plans to put out Rainbow Six: Quarantine and Far Cry 6 at some point this year after delaying both titles due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The former has never had a specific date attached to it (nor has any gameplay footage been...
News Somehow, The Division 2's PS5 Patch Loses Visual Features from PS4 Pro
Digital Foundry investigates
Ubisoft's The Division 2 was patched exactly one week ago to allow it to take advantage of PlayStation 5 hardware, bringing with it support for a 4K resolution at 60 frames-per-second. The 4.5GB update was a welcome one for anyone now playing the looter shooter on Sony's latest console, but as per a technical...
News Ubisoft Enjoys Strongest Quarter in Company History, Assassin's Creed Valhalla Leads the Charge
"By far"
Ubisoft's most recent financial results are in, and it's been one heck of a quarter for the French giant. In fact, it was the company's strongest quarter ever, "by far", according to the publisher's official statement to the press. Crazy. A busy release schedule formed the backbone of this success, spearheaded by the record-breaking...
News Prince of Persia Puts the Sands of Time on Hold Until a Later Date
No new release date announced
Ubisoft’s oft-criticised Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, which was originally scheduled to release on 21st January before being pushed back to 18th March, has been delayed indefinitely. On the franchise’s official Twitter account, a spokesperson for the development team in Pune said that the “passion and...
A telling month ahead
Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been on the market for over two months now, and although the game's in a better state than it was at launch — particularly on PS5 — it still has its fair share of annoying bugs. Some of these issues are minor at best, while others are preventing players from completing quests or advancing the...
News The Division 2 Patch 1.30 Out Now, Features PS5 4K 60FPS Support and More
Maintenance is over
Update: The Division 2's big title update 12.1 — patch 1.30 on PlayStation consoles — is available to download now following additional server maintenance. The headline act here is that the update allows the game to flourish on PS5 in terms of performance. Playing The Division 2 via backwards compatibility will see it run at...
News The Division 2 Patch 12.1 Brings PS5 4K 60FPS Support, Out This Week
Lock and load
It feels like The Division 2 has struggled to remain all that relevant since its initial release back in March 2019, but its incoming title update might just win some players back. Patch 12.1 is a pretty big deal, brining PS5 support to the looter shooter. It promises 60 frames-per-second at 4K resolution when played on Sony's...
News Immortals Fenyx Rising: A New God DLC Out Now on PS5, PS4
So too is a demo
Immortals Fenyx Rising fans can start extending their playtime even further today as the first major bit of DLC arrives for the greek-themed Ubisoft open-world title on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Titled A New God, it can be purchased standalone off the PlayStation Store for £11.99/$14.99 or as part of the season pass,...
News Roller Champions European Closed Beta Test Rolls Out on PS4 in February
Blades of glory
Remember Roller Champions? Announced back at E3 2019, the free-to-play sports title has been in and out of playtests on PC in the meantime. However, it is coming to PlayStation 4, and Ubisoft has arrived to reaffirm as much with this latest news. A closed beta test for select European countries is taking place next month, and that...
News Assassin's Creed Community Cracks Crazy In-Game Mystery to Unlock Legendary Nodens' Arc Bow
And now you can get it
The Assassin's Creed community has recently become infatuated with a weapon called 'Nodens' Arc' — a futuristic-looking Isu bow that can be found in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Players first got their hands on the bow when an unbreakable rock was discovered on an island in the snowy North of the map. By fiddling with game...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Broken Facial Animations Will Be Addressed in an Upcoming Patch
Face value
Ubisoft has updated its official list of 'Known Issues' for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. This is where the development team makes note of existing bugs, and gives a rough timeframe on when players can expect them to be fixed. Newly added to the list is "Lip Sync / Mouth movement during dialogues since 1.1.1", which will apparently be...
News Immortals Fenyx Rising Crosses Paths with Netflix Show Blood of Zeus
By the gods
Ubisoft has grown pretty fond of crossovers, hasn't it? As well as mixing together its own franchises, the publisher likes to go cross-media sometimes too. It's just announced the latest of these. Immortals Fenyx Rising has crossed streams with Netflix's animated show, Blood of Zeus. This rather apt pairing means that the game currently...
News The Division 2 Will Celebrate Resident Evil's Anniversary with Exclusive Outfits
S.T.A.R.S. power
Can’t wait until 7th May to play Resident Evil: Village? Capcom has partnered with Ubisoft to bring a bunch of themed content to Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, including Leon S Kennedy’s iconic Raccoon Police Department outfit as a starter. You’ll then be able to unlock more items and costumes inspired by characters from the...
News New Assassin's Creed Manga Expands the Tale of Shao Jun
Coming West in February
Remember Shao Jun, the hero from Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China? Well, her story's getting its very own manga adaptation, Ubisoft has announced. Published by manga giant VIZ, Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun will be available both at retail and online from the 16th February. It'll feature an "extended" version of Shao...
News Immortals Fenyx Rising PS5, PS4 Demo Glides into View
Gods given
Immortals Fenyx Rising got a little bit lost in the chaos of last year's holiday season, but if you missed out on Ubisoft's colourful open world adventure, then you may be happy to hear that a playable demo is probably heading our way very soon. Said demo was recently added to the PlayStation Store's database, as identified by...
News The Assassin's Creed Valhalla Quests that Most Players Don't Know Exist are Finally Being Fixed
Vengeance at last
Did you know that there's a specific type of dynamic quest in Assassin's Creed Valhalla that the vast majority of players will probably never see? They're called 'Avenge' quests, and they're triggered when Eivor comes across the dead body of a fellow Viking out in the open world. These bodies represent other Valhalla players who...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's New Patch Has Introduced a Bad Face-Breaking Bug
A bad case of lockjaw
Bloody hell, it looks like the latest update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla — patch 1.011 — has introduced a rather annoying bug. The aforementioned update focusses on fixes for a huge number of (relatively minor) issues, but somehow, it's also managed to break the game's facial animation system. It's never easy, is it? The...
"You are incorrigible"
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is finally back after years removed from digital shelves. The 2D beat-'em-up translates the story of the graphic novels and movie well, with each stage culminating with a boss fight against one of Ramona's evil exes. It's a highly entertaining title, but with no real changes in this new...
News Sports Sandbox Riders Republic Removes Its Helmet Until Later in the Year
On your bike
Riders Republic, the ambitious sports sandbox from Ubisoft originally scheduled to release on 25th February, has removed its helmet and taken a chill pill until “later this year”. The development team shared the news on Twitter, although it opted for a white background as opposed to the customary yellow we’ve all been trained to...
News Immortals Fenyx Rising Patch 2.0 Out Now, Adds DLC Support, Haptic Feedback on PS5
Patch notes included
A new update for Immortals Fenyx Rising has landed on PS5 and PS4. Patch 2.0 brings support for the game's first DLC, A New God. It also promises to fix a number of pesky issues that haven't yet been addressed, and adds haptic feedback on PS5. Cool! It weighs in at around 2.2GB across Sony's systems. A New God, the...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch 1.011 Out Now on PS5 and PS4, Huge List of Fixes Included
Get all the patch notes here
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch 1.011 is available to download right now on PlayStation 5, weighing in at exactly 2.435GB. It contains the long, long list of fixes and changes listed below, so be sure to check it out if you've been facing a particular problem. Original story: Ubisoft promised the next...
News Ubisoft Announces New Star Wars Game from The Division Team
Still in the hiring process
Man, the newly formed Lucasfilm Games is popping up all over the place right now. Ubisoft has just announced a brand new Star Wars project in partnership with the aforementioned studio, and the game's development will be led by the developer behind The Division. This is all still very early in the production process, to...
News Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Getting Multiple Physical Editions on PS4
Pre-orders start soon
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is a good example of software that suffered for being a digital only release. Back on PlayStation 3, the title was removed from sale after licensing lapsed, meaning you couldn't buy it for a number of years. The good news is that it's coming back on PS4 in a matter of days, but if you want...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch News Coming Soon, Ubisoft Updates Long List of Known Issues
Raise the sail
2021 promises to be a big year for Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The open world adventure is getting a bunch of free content updates spread throughout the next 12 months, alongside two "massive" expansions, set to release in the spring and summer, respectively. So what's next for Eivor's saga? Well, we know that we're getting the...
Treasure hoard
Since the launch of Assassin's Creed Valhalla in November last year, Ubisoft has been adding new microtransactions to the in-game store every other week. Previous Assassin's Creed titles followed the same pattern, but there are elements of Valhalla's system that players are beginning to question, and once you understand why, it's not...
News First Immortals Fenyx Rising DLC Listed for Late January Release
No confirmation from Ubisoft yet
Eagle-eyed Twitter users have spotted a new listing on the Nintendo eShop that states the first piece of DLC for the fairly good Immortals Fenyx Rising is right around the corner. The expansion titled A New God is slated for release on 21st January 2021 — the first of three major post-launch drops planned by...
Soapbox Rainbow Six: Siege Is My Favorite Shooter of All Time and I Hate It
A wretched hive of scum and villainy
The Push Square PlayStation 5 review of Rainbow Six: Siege went through quite a few changes. Originally a monstrously large article, the word count was trimmed by scaling back the amount of time I spent focusing on the game’s problems with cheating and toxicity. But I still have more to say on the subject. And...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Yule Festival Is Live, Features Unique Activities and Loot
Party time
Starting from the 17th December and lasting until the 7th January, the Yule Festival is the first wave of 'seasonal content' in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. You'll need to have completed at least one England story arc in order to access it. It all sounds rather festive and cosy. Ravensthorpe — your settlement — has been expanded to...
Deal Immortals Fenyx Rising Discounted in UK Two Weeks After Launch
Already under £30
It won’t come as a huge surprise to anyone familiar with Ubisoft’s business model, but Immortals Fenyx Rising has already been dramatically reduced on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in the UK – just two weeks after release. You can grab a boxed copy of the sandbox title for £33.99 on Sony’s next-gen console and...
News Ubisoft Shoves XP Boosting Microtransaction into Assassin's Creed Valhalla a Month After Launch
Predictable!
Ubisoft got blasted for putting a "time-saving" experience point booster into Assassin's Creed Odyssey — a booster that you could purchase with real money. However, the microtransaction didn't make it into the sequel, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, when the game launched on PS5 and PS4 last month. Some saw this as cause for celebration...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's New Patch Includes Adaptive Trigger Support on PS5
Hidden feature
Assassin's Creed Valhalla's latest update — patch 1.010 — comes packing a hidden feature on PS5. Ubisoft has actually added support for the DualSense controller's adaptive triggers, which comes into play when you're using Eivor's bow. It's basically what you'd expect. R2 tightens as Eivor pulls the bowstring back, and it has a...
Patch notes released
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch 1.010 is available to download now on PS5 and PS4. As Ubisoft said, it's around 2.5GB in size. You can find all of the update information below, in our original article. However, one thing that isn't highlighted in the patch notes is that this update adds three new perks to the skill...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Second Big Update Arrives Next Week
Raid ready
As far as we know, Assassin's Creed Valhalla is still getting a bunch of improvements and new gameplay features before the year is out. Ubisoft previously detailed all of this stuff in an article regarding the game's post-launch roadmap, promising activities like repeatable, dynamic raids as part of the title's first 'seasonal' update...
Review Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (PS5) - Multiplayer FPS Is Only Let Down by Its Community
Intentional team kill
As of December 1st, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege is five years old. Yes, you read that right. But how to celebrate such an incredible milestone for one of the only true Games as a Service success stories? Well, how about a shiny new version of the game that offers an array of improvements? Sure, there are still plenty of...
News Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake Delayed to March 2021
Originally out next month
Ubisoft has made the difficult decision to delay Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake past its original release date next month to 18th March 2021. Currently planned for release on PlayStation 4 (playable on PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility), the push back allows the developer to "ensure we deliver a game you...
News Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Gets a Gig on PS4 in January
A slight delay
Fans of Scott Pilgrim have been wanting the film's video game tie-in to return to digital stores for years, and it's finally happening. Announced earlier this year, Ubisoft is bringing back Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Complete Edition after licensing issues meant it was unavailable for quite some time. Initially pegged for a...
Review Immortals Fenyx Rising (PS5) - Formulaic Open World in Ancient Greece
Gods & Monsters aplenty
Immortals Fenyx Rising is what happens when Assassin's Creed Odyssey meets The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. There are some ideas the latest IP from Ubisoft can claim as its own, but it's impossible to deny the comparisons between it and the two open-world juggernauts. As such, it feels like the French publisher has...
News Ubisoft Working to Resolve Missing PS4 to PS5 Upgrades of Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs
No free option available
Update (1st December, 2020): Ubisoft's investigation into why UK gamers can't upgrade their PS4 copies of Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs Legion has be fruitless thus far, but in a message on its Twitter account it promised it was working to resolve the problem. The saga rumbles on... Update (28th November,...
News The Internet Can't Stop Talking About the Kids in Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Freaks of nature
Assassin's Creed Valhalla might have been patched over the past couple of days to make it run better than ever on PlayStation 5, but all the internet wants to do is talk about the children that inhabit Ubisoft's take on England in 873 AD. This is something we experienced to some degree during our review process, although this
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1.004 Performance Practically Unchanged on PS5
Let the bloodbath begin
Update: There was a lot of talk on social this week that Ubisoft had effectively gimped the PlayStation 5 version of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, after Digital Foundry discovered the game performed best on Sony’s console. That’s not quite the case, however. Performance Mode, which targets 60 frames-per-second on PS5, is...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Patch 1.004 Out Now on PS5, PS4, Features Huge List of Improvements
Odin be praised
Update: Assassin's Creed Valhalla update 1.004 is available to download now on PS5 and PS4. It's around 2.6GB in size. For the full patch notes, check out the rest of the article below. Original Story: As promised by Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed Valhalla's next big update is arriving tomorrow — that's the 26th November, in case...
News Watch Dogs Legion Delays Online Mode to Early 2021
To focus on single player fixes
Ubisoft has delayed the online mode planned for Watch Dogs Legion to early 2021 so that it can "focus on fixing issues with single player". The multiplayer offering, which plans to offer four-player co-op and the classic Invasion mode from the first game, was planned to arrive next week. There's no word on whether...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Update Arriving This Week
Should be a big one
Assassin's Creed Valhalla could do with a patch or two. Or three. The open world adventure runs much better on PS5 than it does on PS4 — as stressed in our Assassin's Creed Valhalla PS5 review — but it's still rather buggy, and we dare say that some gameplay elements could be adjusted for the better. Ubisoft had previously...
News Rainbow Six: Siege PS5 Upgrade Coming Next Week, Enhancements Detailed
4K, 120FPS
Ubisoft has confirmed that the free PlayStation 5 upgrade for Rainbow Six: Siege will arrive next on 1st December 2020 alongside Season 4, which is part of its fifth year of content. Yes, it's been chugging along for quite some time now. All of your progress and in-game items will carry over into the next-gen version, with support for...
Review Assassin's Creed Valhalla (PS5) - Next-Gen Upgrade Is One of the Best Games in the Series
The raven's call
Assassin's Creed Valhalla was a disappointment on PS4. Plagued by a constant and unending stream of bugs, an otherwise great open world adventure was held back on Sony's last-gen console. Thank the Norse gods for PS5, then. The new system improves Valhalla massively, to the point where we could actually sit back and enjoy the game's...
Review Watch Dogs Legion (PS5) - Bland Open-Worlder at Least Looks and Runs Better
Rude Brittania
Technically speaking, at least, Watch Dogs Legion is an objectively better game on PlayStation 5 than PlayStation 4. It runs better, it looks better, and it loads much faster. That all does wonders for creating a much smoother experience on Sony's latest console, making sure you spend a lot more of your precious time in the thick of...
Rumour Far Cry 6 Release Date Is May 2021, According to Microsoft Store
Maybe, maybe not
We've seen a CG trailer and a few screenshots for Far Cry 6, but the Ubisoft shooter is still a ways off. Originally pegged for February 2021, the open world FPS was recently pushed back, launching somewhere between the end of April and September. Now, one online listing may have something more specific. The Microsoft Store page...
News Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Still Exists as PS5 Upgrades Detailed
Favour performance or resolution
Damn, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint sure as hell came and went, didn't it? The tactical shooter from 2019 did not light the world on fire like its predecessor, but apparently, it has done just enough to warrant some upgrades on PlayStation 5. To be clear, these enhancements are applied to the backwards compatible version...
News Assassin's Creed Valhalla Skewers Largest Launch in Series History
Norse to see
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has proved a hit with players, as the series secured its largest launch in series history. That means it outpaced previous record holder Assassin’s Creed III, which sold around 3.5 million units during its first week. Here’s the PR for precise wording: “Building on favourable review scores and early...
News Immortals Fenyx Rising Details Three Post-Launch Expansions for PS5, PS4
Because it's a Ubisoft game
If you thought that the Immortals Fenyx Rising experience would start and promptly end on 3rd December 2020, you mustn't know how Ubisoft does things nowadays. The French publisher has today confirmed extensive post-launch support for the open-world title, taking the form of three pieces of DLC. All of them are...
