Assassin’s Creed: Unity is without question one of the greatest challenges yet for Ubisoft developers. The game promises to be a graphics masterpiece that will feature a recreation of 18th century Paris at a huge scale, as we might see thousands of citizens wandering about on the streets of the French capital at any given time. This automatically implies that ...
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The Division PC will not be a port of the PS4 or Xbox One versions
Ubisoft is definitely on a roll at the moment, with four major titles in the form of Assassin’s Creed Unity, Assassin’s Creed Rogue, Far Cry 4 and The Crew scheduled to release later this year. The publisher’s plans for next year have not been fully revealed yet as we only know about two new games so far, namely Tom Clancy’s Rainbow ...
Read More »Why Assassin’s Creed Unity would be “impossible” on last-gen
For those of you living under the proverbial rock, know that publisher Ubisoft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity will be available only on the current generation of consoles (i.e. the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) and PC. During a recent interview with Examiner, Assassin’s Creed Unity’s creative director Alex Amancio has mentioned the game’s scale is simply too big for the ...
Read More »More Assassin’s Creed Chronicles spin-offs in the works
Back in September, Ubisoft had announced Assassin’s Creed Unity’s season pass will include a 2.5D spin-off taking place in ancient China called Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China. Now, the French publisher has revealed its plans to release several other entries in the Chronicles sub-franchise, each featuring its own history and art-style. “We really liked the side-scrolling idea, like Mark of the ...
Read More »Far Cry 4’s season pass brings in yetis, prison breaks, new PvP
Publisher Ubisoft has just revealed the contents of Far Cry 4’s upcoming season pass, which include – among others – yetis! Besides encountering the rarest beasts of the Himalayas, season pass owners will also be able to dive into new missions, these ranging from a prison escape focused on cooperation with another player to “wild” assignments including Hurk and his ...
Read More »Jade Raymond – AC’s first producer – leaves Ubisoft
Ubisoft has just announced that after ten years of collaboration with the publisher, managing director Jade Raymond has decided to “pursue future opportunities” separately from said company. One of Ubisoft Toronto’s founding team member – Alexandre Parizeau – will take on Raymond’s position starting October 29th. During her development years at the French publisher, Raymond served as producer on the ...
Read More »Watch 9 new Far Cry 4 features in this gameplay video
A Far Cry 4 gameplay video released by Outside Xbox unveils 9 new features that will be present in Ubisoft’s upcoming game, apart from the elephant riding and the kicking ability that were already showcased. First of all, Far Cry 4 has a new karmic system that gamers might not like too much. It works like this: you are awarded ...
Read More »Ubisoft says The Crew will hit 60fps on PC
Ubisoft announced that they are working to remove the 30fps cap that PC users encountered during the closed beta. According to the developer, if your hardware supports it, you will be able to run The Crew even at 60fps. While the Xbox One and PlayStation versions are locked at 30 frames per second, Ubisoft decided that there is no need ...
Read More »Assassin’s Creed: Unity trailer presents the game’s characters
With less than a month left until the release date of Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Ubisoft is busy promoting their game as much as possible. For this reason, the developer just released a brand new trailer, in which voice actors present the characters they play within Assassin’s Creed: Unity. The first actor to speak about his character is Dan Jeannotte, who ...
Read More »Far Cry 4 director reveals PS4 resolution and FPS, shares other game related details
Ubisoft has lately developed a habit of showing up in weekly news with behind the scenes info on their upcoming titles, and this time Far Cry 4 holds the front page with two well known and overly debated subjects: resolution and FPS. On top of this, news on single-player campaign length have emerged. This time, Far Cry 4 creative director, ...
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