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Assassin's Creed Infinity Announced, A Hub That Will Somehow Connect Games Together
10.9.2022
Assassin’s Creed is getting a whole lot bigger with Infinity, a new live-service project Ubisoft announced today during its Forward presentation. Infinity aims to connect several different games together while introducing ongoing content updates that will roll out even more settings and timelines...
After Years Of Anticipation, Assassin's Creed Is Finally Going To Japan
10.9.2022
It’s finally happening: Assassin’s Creed is going to Japan. After a series of earlier reports and leaks, Ubisoft finally made the news official during Saturday’s 2022 gaming showcase.Read more
Netflix Is Teaming Up With Ubisoft For Three Exclusives, Including A New Assassin's Creed
10.9.2022
Netflix seems determined to make its name in the gaming space. During Saturday’s Ubisoft Forward showcase, where the French company is highlighting its latest and greatest, the streaming giant came onstage to announce a new partnership that will see the release of three exclusive mobile games....
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Is Looking Like The Switch's Next Big Sleeper Hit
10.9.2022
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope finally gets the deep dive fans have been waiting for ahead of its October 20 launch. The turn-based strategy formula is back, but with a bevy of new sci-fi tricks up its sleeves, and it’s giving me major Super Mario Galaxy 3-vibes. Also Rayman will be coming in...
Assassin’s Creed Games Are Dirt Cheap Right Now
9.9.2022
In need of hundreds of hours of open world RPG adventuring? You’re in luck. A new Assassin’s Creed blowout sale means Valhalla and other titles are currently super cheap. And don’t worry, some of the older ones are massively discounted as well.Read more
Assassin’s Creed Is Back After Two Years Away, See It In Action In First Trailer
7.9.2022
During today’s Ubisoft Forward livestream, the company finally peeled back some of the layers to Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the “back-to-basics” stealth-action game that leaked late last month before getting confirmed as real.Read more
Report: Ubisoft To Reveal Multiple Assassin's Creed Games This Weekend, One Set In Japan
6.9.2022
The Assassin’s Creed machine over at Ubisoft is apparently humming away, as a new report claims that not one, not two, but three different Assassin’s Creed games will be announced Saturday alongside the already leaked and confirmed Mirage.Read more
Tencent Bets $297 Million On Assassin's Creed Machine
6.9.2022
Tencent has dumped another small fortune into one of gaming’s biggest companies. Ubisoft announced on Tuesday that the Chinese conglomerate would being increasing its investment in the Assassins’ Creed maker by nearly $300 million through an elaborate set of financial maneuvers.Read more
Ubisoft Officially Reveals Assassin’s Creed Mirage After Protagonist Leaks
1.9.2022
A bit of artwork from the long-rumored Assassin’s Creed Mirage appeared to leak last night. Then this morning, Ubisoft finally confirmed that the game is real, maybe earlier than it had intended to make the official reveal. It’s quite a leaky ship over there.Read more
PlayStation Plus Expands With Deathloop, Assassin’s Creed, And Watch Dogs 2
1.9.2022
Sony just announced its September lineup of games for its subscription service yesterday, and it’s pretty loaded. PS Plus members will be able to download Arkane’s stylish immersive sim Deathloop, as well as older crowd-pleasers such as Assassin’s Creed Origins and Watch Dogs 2. At the other end...
Tencent, Sony Throw Big Money At Elden Ring Maker FromSoftware
1.9.2022
Elden Ring wasn’t just a hit with fans of FromSoftware’s notoriously difficult action-RPGs. Today Tencent Holdings and Sony announced they’ve acquired 30% of the Souls-series developer’s shares, split in favor of Tencent. FromSoftware is expected to gain $260 million from the arrangement.Read more
This Great Analog Keyboard Made Me Better At Shooters
27.8.2022
If you’re an OG PC gamer you probably recall the neverending holy wars over console gamepads vs. PC-style mouse and keyboard setups. While the mouse and keyboard, with their fast turning and accurate aim, did have lots of benefits, one advantage only gamepads could offer was true analog character...
AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare
26.8.2022
It’s August 2022, and by now you’ve no doubt read (or more likely seen) something about AI art by now. Whether it’s random jokes made for Twitter or paintings that look like they were made by actual human beings, artificial intelligence’s ability to create art has exploded onto the scene over...
Open World Sonic Frontiers Release Date Leaks, New Footage Actually Goes Fast
23.8.2022
Early tastes of Sonic Frontiers indicated an open-world action game that was far off from a publishable state. But if a seemingly unintentional reveal from Sega is to be believed, it’s due out imminently: November 8, 2022, smack in the middle of the busiest release cadence on the horizon.Read more
Xbox Game Pass Loses Hades, Gains Two Sleeper-Hit Gems
16.8.2022
Hope you got your fill playing the best game of 2020, aka Hades, because the next wave of Xbox Game Pass games are upon us and alas, some games are leaving, too. Although this month’s lineup of games is short on big-budget blockbusters, it has a few sleeper hit indie games you’d be wise to check...
How To Calculate A Game's True Value From Its Price And Length
15.8.2022
As we all know, video games are judged on four criteria: The graphics, the gameplay familiarity, the price, and the length. But often times, the “video games media” conflates such objective judgements with corrupting elements of so-called artistic value and cultural impact. With games like...
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Just Got Even Bigger, Which Rules
8.8.2022
Just when you thought Assassin’s Creed Valhalla couldn’t get any bigger, it does. Last week, Ubisoft added a free roguelike mode called “the Forgotten Saga,” which is basically the size of a whole game unto itself. Even worse, it’s genuinely really good. Dammit!Read more
Game Pass Vs. The New PS Plus, The Comparison We Had To Make
6.8.2022
Two months ago, Sony reimagined PS Plus, its longtime membership program for PlayStation owners. Now, it looks a whole lot like Microsoft’s Game Pass: For roughly the same amount of money, both offer access to a Netflix-style games-on-demand library. Obviously, we had to stack the two services...
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Leaks Tease An Iron Man Crossover
4.8.2022
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla dataminers recently discovered files of an Iron Man skin that shoots a Unibeam from the chest. The skin is currently not available in Ubisoft’s digital store, but fans are hoping that it gets released sometime in the future.Read more
Report: Tencent Wants To Expand Its Empire By Becoming Ubisoft’s Biggest Shareholder
4.8.2022
Tencent appears to be doubling down on its investment in Ubisoft. While it already owns 5 percent of the Assassin’s Creed publisher, Reuters now reports the Chinese mega-conglomerate with huge investments throughout the gaming industry has its sights set on becoming Ubisoft’s single biggest...