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Ubisoft CEO Makes His Son Co-CEO Of New Ubisoft
16.7.2025
Earlier this year, Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft got $1.25 billion from Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent to spin-off its most successful gaming franchises into a separate subsidiary. Now we know who’s running this new Ubisoft within Ubisoft: North American studios head Christophe Derennes and...
New To Rainbow Six Siege X? These Operators Should Help You Win
9.7.2025
Did you know there are currently 74 playable operators (75 if you count Recruit) available in Rainbow Six Siege X? Back when I used to play daily on PS4, there were, like, twelve. It was manageable. Nowadays? Not so much. How is a new player supposed to sift through thIS broad assortment...
Returning To R6? Here’s What To Expect In Rainbow Six Siege X
8.7.2025
After a decade of back-and-forth attack and defense missions in Rainbow Six Siege, it was most certainly time for an update. Most of us were probably expecting a sequel. But Ubisoft decided an update masquerading as an overhaul would suffice. Rainbow Six Siege X enters the picture and, with it,...
Ubisoft Is Getting $1.25 Billion From Tencent To Spin-Off Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, And Rainbow Six Siege
27.3.2025
Ubsioft will spin-off its most successful game franchises, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six Siege, into a separate subsidiary thanks to a $1.25 billion investment from Chinese conglomerate Tencent. The massive deal allows the founding Guillemot family to remain in control of...
Rainbow Six Siege X Will 'Transform' The Live-Service Tactical Shooter
17.2.2025
The term “live-service game” has, in the last few months, become synonymous with enormous financial disasters. Hundreds of millions, possibly billions, have been lost over the past year to the hubristic concept of games people will want to keep playing, and investing in, for years to come. But it’s...
Ubisoft Releases Its First Crypto Game With One NFT That Currently Costs $63K
30.10.2024
Ubisoft has finally released its first blockchain game, and it’s all about collecting and battling with NFT figurines. It’s called Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, it’s a PvP tactical RPG, and its marketplace currently lists the most expensive collectible NFT at $64,000. Read more
7 Cheap Open-World Games To Pick Up And Explore From Xbox’s Sale
17.9.2024
I associate the fall with coziness. There’s little better to me than a cool autumn weekend spent on the couch rewatching some of my favorite shows and movies or picking at a particularly lengthy game. The days are getting shorter and the nights are growing long again, and as we naturally begin...
XDefiant Devs Talk Bunny Hopping, Balance, And New Maps
18.6.2024
As the dust settled on a hectic (and messy) launch, I got the chance to talk with FPS XDefiant’s executive producer Mark Rubin, and creative director Safy Saada, about the free-to-play Call of Duty-like’s first few weeks, how the Ubisoft team balances the game, all-important bunny hopping, creating...
XDefiant Devs Say Any Ubisoft Game Could End Up In The FPS
14.6.2024
Could Rayman or the Panda from Just Dance show up in XDefiant? I asked executive producer Mark Rubin and creative director Safy Saada about that, how they decide on which Ubisoft games to add, and all the work that goes into taking characters from one franchise and smashing them into XDefiant’s...
Star Wars Outlaws Won't Take You 100 Hours To Complete, Says Ubisoft
12.6.2024
Ubisoft’s upcoming Star Wars Outlaws looks to be a massive open-world video game spanning multiple planets and cities. However, according to the game’s creative director, completing everything in Outlaws isn’t going to take you 100 to 200 hours like in some past Ubisoft games. Read more
Division 2 Players Really Hate The New Shift To Seasonal Characters
11.6.2024
The Division 2's newest season—Year 6 Season 1—is now live and with it, Ubisoft also revealed its plans for the rest of the year. However, a big change on the roadmap involving seasonal characters that players must create fresh at the start of each new stretch has led to a massive amount...
New Star Wars Outlaws Trailer Reveals What The Game's Actually About
9.4.2024
On April 9, after some teasing (and a leak) Ubisoft released a new trailer for its upcoming and highly-anticipated open-world Star Wars game, Star Wars Outlaws. The third-person action-adventure game is being developed by Massive—the same studio behind The Division—and will be out this August. Read...
Netflix's New Rainbow Six Game Looks Very Different
20.2.2024
There’s a new Rainbow Six game out today, but it’s not like any previous entry in Ubisoft’s long-running tactical shooter franchise. Instead, this new entry, Rainbow Six SMOL, is a top-down, cartoony, roguelite mobile shooter exclusive to Netflix subscribers. Read more
The New Division Game Has A Feature Every Game Should Steal
20.11.2023
Ubisoft’s new The Division game isn’t even out yet, as it’s still in beta testing and won’t launch officially until 2024. But after trying the beta, I already want one feature from the upcoming game to become standard in every video game I play in the future. Read more
Ubisoft Shutting Down Online Service For Old Assassin's Creed Games And More
30.10.2023
Ubisoft has announced plans to shut down online services for nearly a dozen video games, including Assassin’s Creed 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction. The games will lose online functionally on January 25, 2024. Read more
Ubisoft Indefinitely Delays CoD Clone Because Of ‘Inconsistencies’
10.10.2023
Ubisoft announced on October 9 it was indefinitely delaying Call of Duty-like XDefiant’s preseason, adding to the ever-growing list of issues standing between the free-to-play arena shooter and a release date.Read more
Ubisoft Announces The Division 3, Adding To Its Pile Of Unreleased Division Games
21.9.2023
Ubisoft just announced a new entry in its popular third-person tactical military online looter shooter series, The Division. You probably didn’t notice The Division 3 was revealed because Ubisoft buried the news inside a corporate press release announcing a new executive producer for the “Division...
Player Who Spent $1.5K On Rainbow Six Siege Sentenced For Swatting Ubisoft Studio
7.7.2023
The player responsible for a 2020 swatting incident at Ubisoft Montreal has been sentenced in French court to three years of community service, the Montreal Gazette reports. The player called in a hostage situation at the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry studio leading to a lockdown and raid by police...
Ubisoft’s Call of Duty Clone Is Actually Pretty Good
23.6.2023
Ubisoft’s big, crossover first-person shooter XDefiant isn’t out until later this year. However, a short open beta is currently being held until June 23. And after playing a few hours of Ubisoft’s new Call of Duty-like shooter, I’m surprised by just how much I like it. But I’m also concerned that...
Sources: New Ghost Recon In Development As Ubisoft Moves On From Breakpoint NFT Controversy
6.4.2022
Ghost Recon Breakpoint has officially received its last update, Ubisoft announced yesterday. The news comes just a few months after the publisher’s disastrous experiment with adding NFTs to the game, and, we have learned, as its Paris studio works on the next mainline entry in the Ghost Recon...