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5 Games To Expect From Ubisoft In 2023 (And Some To Be Skeptical Of)
26.1.2023
Cancellations, right? That really does seem to have been the New Year’s theme for the French publisher so far, with at least seven projects recently scrapped, while other big names seem to slip ever-further toward the distant horizon. Yet, until last year, the problematic multi-billion dollar...
Ubisoft Devs Grill Boss On Shifting Blame And Chasing Trends
18.1.2023
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot faced tough questions from some exhausted and fed-up staff about recent missteps and future plans in a company-wide Q&A session on Wednesday. The meeting comes just a week after the Assassin’s Creed publisher announced new cancellations, delays, and cost-cutting...
Ubisoft Employees Asked To Strike Over CEO's Comments, Pay Demands
18.1.2023
Ubisoft hasn’t had the best couple of years. A string of flops and disappointments means the company isn’t in the best shape as it heads into 2023, so in an attempt to get everyone firing last week CEO Yves Guillemot sent an email to staff telling them “The ball is in your court”. It did not...
Ubisoft's Never-ending Skull And Bones Delays: The Complete, Decade-Long Saga
13.1.2023
Skull And Bones started life as a multiplayer-focused expansion for 2013’s excellent Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Then it expanded into a bigger, MMO-like pirate game of its own. A decade later, and following its 2017 reveal and multiple delays, Ubisoft’s online pirate sim is still missing....
The Next Assassin's Creed Is Smaller Because Past Games Got Way Too Big
12.1.2023
The last few Assassin’s Creed titles have been gigantic games that can easily take over a hundred hours to fully complete, with huge maps crowded with POIs and tons of side quests to distract you from the main story. According to Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the upcoming spin-off, is smaller...
Ubisoft Has Canceled At Least Seven Games In Six Months
11.1.2023
In a new financially-focused press release, Ubisoft has confirmed that it has canceled three more unannounced games, meaning that since July 2022 the publisher has now canned at least seven different video games. It’s more bad news for the publisher, who also confirmed that recent games like Mario...
Ubisoft Delays Skull And Bones, Cancels More Games, And Announces New Cuts
11.1.2023
Ubisoft held an emergency call with investors on Wednesday to reveal that the company’s 2022 sales had fallen well below expectations and that it would be taking drastic measures going forward, including cancelling three more unannounced games, delaying Skull and Bones a few months yet again,...
Ubisoft Winter Sale Has Big Savings On Games Like Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope
16.12.2022
‘Tis that time of the year when every store, shop, and retailer begins slashing prices on everything in an effort to make as much money as possible during the holiday season. A magical time, really. And Ubisoft is joining in on the fun with a new, large winter sale, happening now, that sees games...
Ubisoft Back On Steam Just In Time For Assassin’s Creed Valhalla's Final Update
21.11.2022
Ubisoft was one of many publishers in the last few years to ditch Steam for its own storefront or Epic’s launcher. And like so many, including Activision, Ubisoft is now coming back to Steam with the upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on the platform, after 2019 comments from...
A Bunch Of Great Assassin's Creed Games Flood PS Plus This Month
12.10.2022
Sony’s revamped PS Plus service is getting bigger and better every month, and October opens the sluice gates on a torrent of great games. There’s Assassin’s Creed III and Syndicate, yes, but also a ton of Dragon Quest games, the recent remaster of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and even former Xbox...
Ubisoft Chief Creative Officer Departing After Only One Year
6.10.2022
Ubisoft’s chief creative officer, Igor Manceau, will step down next month after only a year in that position at the troubled Assassin’s Creed publisher, the company announced internally on Thursday. According to a message to staff from CEO Yves Guillemot, the move comes as part of a larger change...
Sources: Ubisoft’s Big 2022 Pirate Blockbuster Delayed Yet Again
28.9.2022
Ubisoft faces another massive delay. Earlier this year it was Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Now it’s Skull and Bones, the Assassin’s Creed publisher’s only major fall blockbuster. Previously set to come out in November, two sources familiar with the game’s development now tell Kotaku it’s been...
Ubisoft Boss Clarifies His Controversial Remarks About Toxicity
26.9.2022
In a new interview with La Presse, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot appeared to say that toxicity in the games industry comes from necessary “friction” in the creative process. The implication was that it was almost inescapable. Two years into a workplace reckoning over sexual harassment, misconduct,...
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Assassin’s Creed Game
24.9.2022
Released back in 2007, the first Assassin’s Creed took the world by storm and kicked off a large and still ongoing franchise, one of Ubisoft’s most successful, too. While every fan of the franchise no doubt has their favorite (and least favorite) entries, we aren’t here to rank them all. I mean,...
Xbox PC Now Tells You How Long A Game Should Take To Finish, Which Is Tricky
15.9.2022
The ways people judge their video games are many and various, with few agreeing on hard and fast rules for what truly imbues gaming time with value. But surely one of the most controversial is the length of a game. And now, “how long to beat” is a metric Microsoft has just added to its PC version...
Future Assassin's Creed Games Are Ditching Modern Day Stuff, And That's Disappointing
12.9.2022
Over the weekend, Ubisoft announced about 50 different Assassin’s Creed games and projects. (Editor’s note: It was a lot…but not 50). The company also laid out the future of the series and how its upcoming hub, Infinity, will bring the franchise together in a way that we haven’t seen before....
Here’s Hoping Assassin’s Creed Red Learns From What Ghost Of Tsushima Did Wrong
12.9.2022
Ubisoft didn’t give us a ton to chew on when it unveiled Assassin’s Creed Red, which will follow next year’s Mirage in the long-running historical fiction series, beyond the fact that it’s set in Japan. However, that hasn’t stopped AC fans from making comparisons to Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker...
Everything We Saw At Ubisoft's Big Event Today
11.9.2022
Today Ubisoft showed off a wide variety of upcoming and currently available titles from the French publisher. With Ubisoft Forward, there were some fun titles like Mario + Rabbids and Just Dance, a bunch of stuff for The Division franchise, some hints at a partnership with Netflix, and a lot...
There's So Much Assassin's Creed Happening Now That It's Almost Hard To Keep Up
11.9.2022
I am sorry if the front page of Kotaku reads like an advertisement for Ubisoft right now, but do you want to know the wildest thing about it all? That’s not even everything that the French company announced recently in the world of Assassin’s Creed during its big Ubisoft Forward event. There was...
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Is Actually Ending, And The DLC Will Be Free
10.9.2022
It felt like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla might never end. Long after the seas had swallowed the continents and the stars had gone out, Eivor would still be finding new settlements to pillage and new cosmetics to play around with. But today Ubisoft announced the almost unthinkable: Assassin’s Creed...