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Friday15th Dec 2023
News The Crew 1 Has Reached the End of the Road, Delisted and Servers Shutting Soon
Crew cut
Yesterday, Ubisoft announced it'd be removing The Crew — the original game in the series — from sale. Indeed, it's now not available on PS Store or any other digital platform. Furthermore, online servers for the open world racer will be switched off come 31st March, 2024. Ubisoft shared the update on its website, along with memories...
Wednesday5th Aug 2015
Gamescom 2015 Ubisoft's Still Trying to Flog The Crew
Publisher overhauling PS4 racer's visuals
We weren't all that enamoured with The Crew when it released on the PlayStation 4 last year, but kudos to Ubisoft, it's not pumping the brakes on the brand just yet. In fact, upcoming expansion Wild Ride is more than just your average DLC pack – it's going to launch alongside a brand new graphics engine...
Thursday30th Oct 2014
News Do You Want to Play The Crew on PS4 Prior to Launch?
Beta sign up quick
In the aftermath of DriveClub’s well-documented problems, we actually admire Ubisoft for delaying The Crew while it runs one last closed beta. The title had been set to hit the road next month, but following some less than stellar feedback, the company has de
Monday6th Oct 2014
News The Crew Takes Time to Make a Few Additional Recruits
Ambitious racer spending a few extra weeks in the workshop
Ubisoft will be taking a little extra time to tinker with its ambitious open world racing release The Crew, as the title has taken a detour into December. The constantly connected ‘CaRPG’ had originally been set to take to the track on 11th November, but will now hit the road on 2nd...
Tuesday10th Jun 2014
E3 2014 The Crew Hits the Road from 11th November in North America
Cruisin' USA
Ubisoft’s ambitious open world racer The Crew will take a tour of the United States from 11th November, the French firm confirmed during its E3 2014 media briefing. The publisher revealed the date alongside a moody time lapse trailer, showing the journey from Miami to Los Angeles in approximately 113 seconds. If only real life travel...
Wednesday9th Apr 2014
News PS4 Racer The Crew Is Going to Drive Away with Your Wallet
Money sink
Ubisoft’s intriguing open world racer The Crew has always sounded ambitious, but we never expected its lofty aims to expand to its monetisation model as well. While the cross-country excursion – which will see you competing across a condensed interpretation of the United States – will release as a full-priced product for the...
Tuesday15th Oct 2013
News PlayStation 4 Racer The Crew Posses Up in Mid-2014
Staying in the workshop
Watch Dogs isn’t the only title packing up its belongings for a little longer than expected. Ubisoft has announced that its next generation racer The Crew will also be staying stationary for the foreseeable future, with the PlayStation 4 release not set to arrive until the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2015. It had...
Saturday20th Jul 2013
News The Crew Designed with PS4's 'Play as You Download' Feature in Mind
Convenience content
For corridor conflicts like Call of Duty: Ghosts, the PlayStation 4’s ambitious ‘Play as You Download’ feature is unlikely to prove a problem. Developers can easily arrange data so that the first level of the campaign is pulled off the server first, followed by the second, third, and so on. But for open world games such as...
Friday19th Jul 2013
News The Crew Was Ported to PS4 by Just Two to Three People
Times are changing
At this point prior to the PlayStation 3’s release, we were starting to hear whispers about the console’s complex architecture. Third-party studios were really struggling to get to grips with the system, and that was evidenced by the slew of shoddy ports that plagued the platform for years after its arrival. Fortunately, the...