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News The Number of Assassin's Creed Syndicate Special Editions Is Embarrassing
Shakes head
You may need an abacus to keep count of the various special editions that have been announced for Assassin's Creed Syndicate following its reveal yesterday. Ubisoft may have proved that it's learned from Unity's disastrous launch by debuting the title with tons of gameplay, but it's certainly not packing in its convoluted collector's...
News Ubisoft's E3 2015 Press Conference Gets a Date and Time
Not too late, thankfully
Well would you look at that, another somewhat reasonably timed E3 2015 press conference. Ubisoft's announced that its presser will begin at 23:00PM BST / 15:00PM PST / 18:00PM EST on the 14th June. That's just a few hours after EA's showcase. You see, we UK writers here at Push Square aren't too bothered by late nights, but...
News PS3 Owners, It's Time to Upgrade to the PS4
Ubisoft's moving on
There are still lots of people clinging to the fact that the PlayStation 3 has a much larger install base than the PlayStation 4, but the reality is that there are many, many more active users on Sony's super machine. Ubisoft thinks so anyway, as it's ditching development on last-gen systems – well, aside from the odd casual...
Feature 6 Things You Need to Know About Assassin's Creed Syndicate on PS4
Rule Britannia
Victorian England is very much back in video game vogue. Following in the period footwear of The Order: 1886 and Bloodborne, publisher Ubisoft has revealed Assassin's Creed Syndicate – the first London-based outing in its uber-popular alternate history franchise. Perhaps in response to the fiasco that greeted flawed French foray...
News Ubisoft's Got a Secret Triple-A Title Up Its Sleeve
Predictions on a post card, please
Ubisoft's no stranger to hidden blades, but it appears that the French firm has a different kind of weapon stuffed up its sleeve. Hot on the heels of Assassin's Creed Syndicate's announcement earlier this evening, the publisher has revealed that it has another "triple-A title that has not yet been announced" in the...
News Assassin's Creed Syndicate Is a Single Player Stab-'Em-Up Only
Alone in the dark
We'd wager that you're going to be hearing quite a bit about Assassin's Creed Syndicate as we approach E3 2015, but coinciding with the game's official reveal earlier today, Ubisoft's released its earnings report for this fiscal year. It may not seem that important at first, but the document actually confirms that the...
News Tom Clancy's The Division Combs Snowy Streets in 2016
Scoped and dropped
It feels like a lifetime ago that we first saw The Division, Ubisoft's open world, online shooter, and role-playing game hybrid. Since then, we've heard bits and pieces about the release, but with the publisher concentrating on other franchises such as Assassin's Creed, any big news has likely been postponed. We could well see...
News Assassin's Creed Syndicate Slums It on PS4 from 23rd October
London's burning
Britannia will rule in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the next entry in Ubisoft's stealth series. As part of a livestream earlier today, the French firm confirmed that its oft rumoured London-based romp will release on the PlayStation 4 from 23rd October. The game will be set in 1868 – not to be confused with 1886, of course...
Live Join Our Assassin's Creed Victory Reveal Syndicate Right Here
Watch Ubisoft's announcement as it happens
Here we are, then: the future of Assassin's Creed is about to begin. Kicking off at 17:00PM BST (12:00PM EDT, 09:00AM PDT), Ubisoft will be livestreaming the reveal, which you can watch in here. We already know that the game's going to be set in London, and will likely feature a brother and sister...
Rumour The Next Assassin's Creed on PS4 Will Sport a Brother and Sister Protagonist Combo
Dual wielding
After all of the furore over Ubisoft's statements regarding female characters in Assassin's Creed Unity, it may appear as though the company is trying to smooth things over with Assassin's Creed Victory – otherwise known as Assassin's Creed Syndicate – if the rumours are to be believed. According to Kotaku, sources have claimed...
Feature Five Ways Assassin's Creed Victory Can Stop the Series' Rot
The syndicate
It's rare for a renowned series such as Assassin's Creed to get tagged with middling review scores, but we slammed the disappointing Assassin's Creed Unity when it deployed last year. While there was a reasonable experience buried at the release's beating heart, the Parisian escapade also had a laundry list of flaws – the title's...
News The Next PS4 Assassin's Creed Game Is Apparently Subtitled Syndicate
Unvictorious
The upcoming Assassin's Creed title is being revealed next Tuesday, and according to Polygon, it won't be called Assassin's Creed Victory, as previously rumoured. Instead, it'll boast the subtitle 'Syndicate', which sounds a touch more ominous to us. According to the leaked marketing material that the publication obtained, the game...
News The Next Assassin's Creed Is Being Revealed in Just a Few Days
The hood is off
Don't you just love announcements of announcements? Well we've got a corker for you today, as Ubisoft has announced that the next Assassin's Creed title will be revealed on the 12th May at 18:00PM CET. If our useless math skills are correct, that's 17:00PM UK time. We already know quite a bit about the title, of course, as the...
News Far Cry 4: Complete Edition Conquers Kyrat on PS4
No word on the PS3, though
'Tis that wonderful time of the year where every blockbuster gets repackaged and re-released, and today it's the turn of Far Cry 4. Ubisoft has announced that a Complete Edition of its dictatorial overturning escapade will deploy on the PlayStation 4 in the UK from the 19th June. Bizarrely, there's no word on the...
Rumour Watch Dogs 2 Goes Walkies on Ubisoft Employee's CV
Woof break
In the least surprising news ever, Watch Dogs 2 appears to have been let off its lease. Julien Risse, who worked on the previous instalment in the phone hacking series, has accidentally included the release on his Linked In profile. This is no surprise, of course, as Ubisoft has talked about the possibility of creating a sequel to the...
News Ubisoft's Donating $100,000 to Nepal After Quake
"Far Cry 4 was heavily inspired by Nepal and its people"
So often we report on shady business practices here on Push Square, but it's nice to know that companies like Ubisoft still have a heart. Following the devastating earthquake in Nepal at the weekend, Far Cry 4 developer Ubisoft Montreal has pledged a whopping $100,000 to aid with support in...
Review Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China (PlayStation 4)
Creed of the chronic
It's been a rocky road for Ubisoft lately, with the publisher on the receiving end of bad press for the likes of Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed Unity. It may be time for a bit of stability, then, and that's where Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China comes into the equation. A 2.5D adventure full to the brim with typical franchise...
News Assassin's Creed Chronicles Reveals Its Hidden Blade Next Month on PS4
International espionage
It must be 5PM, because Ubisoft's sent out a big old press release about an upcoming game. This time, it's Assassin's Creed Chronicles, a 2.5D adventure that's diving onto the PlayStation 4 next month. Launching on the 21st April in North America and the 22nd April in Europe, the first download in the Chronicles trilogy will...
News Hone Your Tactics with Rainbow Six: Siege's PS4 Collector's Edition
The art of war
Rainbow Six: Siege will come with a 120-page tactics guide if you plump up for its collector's edition in the UK. The £64.99 package – which will also comprise a copy of the PlayStation 4 first-person shooter, alongside some gold weapon skins – promises "information on every Counter Terrorist Unit, operator, weapon, and map". One...
News Rainbow Six Siege Beta to Infiltrate PS4 Later This Year
Deployment incentive
How many of you remember Rainbow Six Siege, then? The game was announced during Ubisoft's E3 press conference last year, but has remained more or less under cover since the Los Angeles event. However, a few assets from an ongoing alpha have spilled out onto the Internet in recent weeks, which the French publisher is doing a...
Review Far Cry 4: Valley of the Yetis (PlayStation 4)
Different, Yeti the same
The latest piece of downloadable content for Far Cry 4 – Valley of the Yetis – serves up another sizeable slice of action for the Kyrat faithful, and sees protagonist Ajay Ghale crash landing in the titular valley while investigating reports that Pagan Min's forces are on the hunt for a mysterious relic. After waking...
News Here's the First Six Minutes of Far Cry 4's Valley of the Yetis DLC
Not over yeti
Far Cry 4's relatively crazy Valley of the Yeti DLC is out in just a couple of days, and as such, Sony's stuck a six minute walkthrough of the download onto YouTube. A nice introduction to the add-on, the video shows off the opening scenes and what sort of gameplay you can expect. Aside from battling big hairy monsters, you'll also be...
News Ubisoft's Going to Put More Modern Day Stuff in Future Assassin's Creed Games
Oh dear
We don't know about you, but we don't think that the lack of modern day content was Assassin's Creed Unity's biggest problem. Sure, it was almost non-existent and consisted of little more than a few daft cutscenes, but at least this meant that it didn't really get in the way of the historical story or its pacing. This particular author has...
News This Is No Hoax, Far Cry 4's Yeti Expansion Is Coming Soon
Fur real
Better get geared up and back out into Kryat's wilderness, because Far Cry 4's latest expansion is hitting the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 next month. On 10th March in North America and 11th March in Europe, you'll be able to take the hunt to the Valley of the Yetis, as protagonist Ajay has to survive against the mythical...
Review Trivial Pursuit Live! (PlayStation 4)
Genius in a can
If there's one problem with the physical version of Trivial Pursuit, it's that there aren't enough klaxons. Without loud noises and bright lights, how are you supposed to know how awesome and attractive you obviously are? Ubisoft's latest adaptation drops most of what made the question-and-answer board game such a huge success,...
News Assassin's Creed Unity's Newest Patch Means No More Using Apps and Sites to Unlock Content
The people have spoken
In yet another bid to try and improve Assassin's Creed Unity after the game's somewhat shoddy launch, Ubisoft has released a patch today that removes the need to fiddle about with the title's companion app and Initiates website. Throughout the game's virtual Paris, you'll find chests that can only be opened through use of the...
News Ubisoft Admits Difficulties Developing Assassin's Creed Unity for the PS4
Nothing's a waste if you learn from it
Did you know that Assassin's Creed Unity didn't have a smooth launch? It's no secret that the highly anticipated title was a major disappointment for almost everyone due to its myriad glitches and flaws that mired an otherwise beautiful game with ambitious design changes, as we pointed out in our review...
News You Terrible People Have Hunted 1,630,255,159 Animals in Far Cry 4
Think of the children
It's time for another round of open world video game statistics, and up today, we've got mountainous mayhem simulator, Far Cry 4. Posting on Twitter, publisher Ubisoft has revealed some shockingly massive numbers. For starters, you lot have killed 6,512,562,667 things, and scored 1,367,205,865 headshots in the process. You're...
Risky business
With so many kitten videos on YouTube, taking over the world is something of a hassle these days. Vladimir Putin, with his head as smooth as a baby's first jazz recital, has found this out the hard way, attempting to start a world war while also maintaining his long-distance stalking of PewDiePie. Luckily, there's an easier way to...
News Assassin's Creed Unity's PS4 Price Has Been Cut Down to Size on Amazon
Peasant money
We would have advised against putting down the cash for Assassin's Creed Unity when it launched, given its myriad technical issues, but Ubisoft's sandbox romp is currently going for a much more agreeable price on Amazon.co.uk, especially since a slew of patches have largely fixed a lot of the aforementioned problems.
News Who Wants More Assassin's Creed Unity Content on PS4?
Sacré urgh
Assassin's Creed Unity's free expansion pack Dead Kings ain't especially great. We can appreciate the apology from Ubisoft, but the PlayStation 4 title's core is so rotten that we found playing through the epilogue a bit of a chore. The thought of plunging into Paris for a third time, then, has this author breaking out in cold sweats...
Review Assassin's Creed Unity: Dead Kings (PlayStation 4)
Merde
If we were writing this review for an English literature class, we'd argue that Franciade is a metaphor for Assassin's Creed Unity as a whole. The expansive sandbox setting, which serves as hero Arno Dorian's stomping ground during add-on Dead Kings, is dark and dreary, contrasting the oversaturated architecture of Paris with something a...
News Ubisoft Developer Reckons Watch Dogs Has "a Lot of Room for Improvement"
Howling at the moon
When Watch Dogs released last year, we thought that it was a pretty solid sandbox romp, but like many games that had come before it, there was enough to improve upon to make us think that an inevitable sequel would end up being the real highlight. Fortunately, creative director Jonathan Morin agrees with us. In an interview with...
News Far Cry 4's Permadeath DLC Escapes onto PS4 and PS3 Right Now
Prison break
Far Cry 4's Escape from Durgesh Prison downloable content is available to download right now, Ubisoft has announced. As the name suggests, you'll be tasked with escaping from a highly secure jail using all of the tricks and trinkets that you've mastered during the main game. Oh, and you'll be able to do so both in solo and co-op...
News Assassin's Creed Unity Resurrects Dead Kings for Free on PS4 Next Week
Rest in pieces
Arno's adventure will continue next week, as Ubisoft is readying the release of Assassin's Creed Unity's first expansion pack, Dead Kings. The post-launch content was originally intended to be a premium offering, but following the title's buggy launch, everyone
News Assassin's Creed Unity Is No Longer a Total Slide Show on PS4
French resolution
Assassin’s Creed Unity probably should have been taken to the gallows rather than store shelves. There’s a reasonable game at the centre of the Parisian escapade, but performance hiccups have thus far prevented it from breaking free. However, following the addition of a gigantic 6.5GB patch, has Ubisoft managed to salvage...
Review Tetris Ultimate (PlayStation 4)
From Russia with indifference
The puzzle game used to be the staple of every platform’s portfolio. Be it Tetris, Columns, or Bust-a-Move, no console was complete without a score chasing outing of its own. In an age of Facebook and smartphones, though, those days are long gone, with Tetris the last bastion of a genre that’s largely been left...
News Your Assassin's Creed Unity Compensation Can Now Be Claimed
Merci
Ubisoft promised that those of you unfortunate enough to stump up extra for Assassin’s Creed Unity’s Season Pass would be compensated with a free title of your choice, and it looks like the French publisher is rolling out those goodies now. One user on NeoGAF posted an email that he received from the firm outlining how to claim his...
News This Free Far Cry 4 Theme for the PlayStation 4 Is Grrreat
Eye of the tiger
Ever since adding themes as part of PlayStation 4 firmware update v2.00, Sony’s furnished the PlayStation Store with a handful of animated backgrounds. Unfortunately, this latest freebie isn’t as exciting as the recent 20th Anniversary giveaway, but is pretty neat if you’re a fan of Ubisoft’s big holiday blockbuster,
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
News Tetris Ultimate Clears the QA Line Ahead of Christmas on PS4
In a T-spin
No next-gen console is complete without a version of Tetris, so thankfully Tetris Ultimate will slam its way onto the PlayStation 4 in time for Christmas. The title – which was originally announced an eternity ago – will launch on 16th December in North America, but there’s no word on a price just yet. Ubisoft,
News Will Ubisoft Finally Fix Assassin's Creed Unity's PS4 Framerate Next Week?
Patch four impending
While it may not seem like it sometimes, we genuinely don’t enjoy reporting on broken games. It’s part of the reason why we’re so pleased to see DriveClub overcome its troubles and blossom into a really decent racing game – and also why we’ve got our fingers crossed tightly that Assassin’s Creed Unity will finally be...
Review The Crew (PlayStation 4)
Thank you for driving dangerously
If you’ve ever fancied taking a coast-to-coast road trip across America, then you were probably excited by the announcement that Ubisoft's latest driving game The Crew was offering the chance to do just that. Even with its abbreviated version of the USA, the scale of its game world, coupled with the chance to tear...
News PS4 RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Packs Up Until May 2015
Toil and trouble
With so many games launching broken this Christmas, we can totally stomach a delay – and while The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt may have been right at the very top of your New Year wishlist, at least you can be confident that it won’t be shipping with game breaking bugs. CD Projekt RED has pushed back the PlayStation 4 role-playing game...
Rumour The Next Assassin's Creed Will Brave the Smog of Victorian London
Update: Ubisoft confirms development of Victory for PS4
You wait years for a game set in Victorian London, and then two come along at once. Sony’s ambitious The Order: 1886 may not be the only top hat sporting title to hit town next year, as Kotaku has dug up some very believable dirt on Ubisoft’s next big blockbuster: Assassin'
News Has Assassin's Creed Unity's Poor PS4 Framerate Been Fixed?
Get an Eiffel
We quite liked Assassin’s Creed Unity, but felt that it was let down by poor performance. Ubisoft, to its credit, has been working around the clock to make amends for these issues – even going as far as to offer a free, full game download for anyone that purchased the Parisian escapade’s Season Pass. Has its latest patch, which
News Assassin's Creed Unity Season Pass Owners to Receive Free Game
Everyone to get apologetic DLC
Ubisoft has more or less admitted that Assassin’s Creed Unity launched in an unacceptable state, and is attempting to make up for that with free downloadable content. Everyone that's purchased the game will be able to grab the title’s Dead Kings add-on at no extra charge, while Season Pass owners will be offered a...
News Assassin's Creed Unity Patch Will Improve Framerate on PS4
Band aid
Well done for beta testing the game everyone; Assassin’s Creed Unity may resemble a finished product later this week. Ubisoft has announced that it will be launching a brand new PlayStation 4 patch for its plagued Parisian escapade tomorrow, which will improve the title’s frame rate – and fix a frightening number of bugs that somehow...
News Assassin's Creed Could Yet Infiltrate the Kids Market
Animus for infants
Two new Assassin’s Creed games may not be enough for Ubisoft, as the French publisher is toying with the idea of an entry marketed at exclusively at kids. While the violent subject matter doesn’t lend itself immediately to children, the firm has recently introduced a Mega Bloks line, which is intended to expand the...
Review Far Cry 4 (PlayStation 4)
Take a walk on the wild side
Far Cry 3 managed to blend a near perfect mix of open world and first-person shooter, taking players to the darker side of a Pacific paradise, where many of the inhabitants were the definition of insane. For its sequel, there’s a definite feeling that Ubisoft took the view 'if it’s not broken, don’t fix it', so Far...
