Tag: Avatar
News Avatar Dev Will Let You Turn Off PSSR as It Fixes Poor PS5 Pro Patch
Hotfix on 12th December
Ubisoft has revealed in a Twitter statement that it is looking at fixing the PS5 Pro patch for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora that was implemented last week. While it works on the update, a hotfix coming this Thursday, 12th December 2024 will add a toggle that allows PS5 Pro owners to actually turn off the PSSR feature...
News Fans Frustrated with Avatar's Disappointing PS5 Pro Patch
PSSR reducing image quality
Ubisoft has today patched official PS5 Pro support into Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, allowing it to run at 60 frames-per-second in its Quality Mode. The internal resolution has been increased when running on Sony's enhanced system, and PSSR is also in effect. PS5 Pro owners will experience "better quality and...
News Saber Interactive Partners with Paramount on Biggest Avatar Game in Franchise History
AAAvatar
Saber Interactive, Paramount Game Studios, and Avatar Studios have jointly announced a collaboration on a brand new, AAA game set within the popular Avatar franchise. Not the James Cameron one, the other one. Set to arrive on PC and consoles, this untitled Avatar video game will be the biggest in the history of the franchise. While there...
News Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora DLC The Sky Breaker Pierces PS5 in July
You'll Na'vi know if you never go
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is mounting up for its first DLC story pack, and Ubisoft has given us our first look at The Sky Breaker, which will see a mysterious shadow looming in the sky, threatening the Na'vi clans, who really can't seem to catch a break. It arrives on PS5 next month, on 16 July. The Sky Breaker...
News Avatar Game Gets a Rare 40FPS Mode in New PS5 Patch
Part of patch 3.2 out now
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has been updated to support a new graphical mode running at 40 frames-per-second while boasting higher resolutions. Available to download now on PS5 as part of patch 3.2, the mode can be used on 4K TVs that support up to 120Hz. Prior to this, Avatar PS5 only had Quality and Performance Modes,...
Poll Are You Playing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora?
Big blue
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has landed on PS5, offering up Ubisoft's open world take on the Avatar franchise. It's pretty much the last high profile release of 2023, and because of that, we're sure that a lot of people will be picking it up for the holidays. Are you one of them, though? We don't have an Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review...
Round Up Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Reviews Are Torn on Ubisoft's New Open World
Feeling blue
Perhaps the final high profile release of 2023, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is out for PS5 on the 7th December — and the reviews are starting to drop. This latest open world adventure from Ubisoft is an original tale in the Avatar universe, and while reviewers are heaping praise on the game's luscious alien setting and overall visual...
News Elements from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Could Inform Future Avatar Films
Cameron canon
Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is out fairly imminently, arriving on PS5 on 7th December. As a canon part of James Cameron's larger universe, an intriguing aspect fans can look forward to is the new creatures, characters, and storylines, which are already influencing other Avatar projects. Speaking to IGN, Massive...
News Like All Modern Games, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Has a PS5 Season Pass
A new frontier
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora isn’t out yet, but Ubisoft is eager to show you the content it’s got in the pipeline for post-release. To be fair to the publisher, the game’s two story packs are clearly still early in development, as it’s chosen to demonstrate them using animated concept art in this trailer. The first pack, The...
News Here's How PS5 Will Help You Become Na'Vi in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
'Av a look at this
It’s hard to tell whether Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is going to be big or not. On the one hand, the upcoming Ubisoft adventure is based on one of the biggest movie franchises on the planet (at least when it comes to Box Office results, anyway). On the other, well, it largely looks like a Far Cry reskin if we’re being...
News Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Looks Lush in New PS5 Story Trailer
Blue man group
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora exists purely to make our video producer Aaron Bayne happy. He's the only one among the ranks at Push Square to show any real interest in this Ubisoft open world actioner, and to be fair, it is looking pretty good. The new trailer emphasises the story while showing a whole bunch of wonderfully colourful...
News Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance Bends the Elements on PS5, PS4 in 2023
Don't look back in Aanger
A sure-fire sign of a good game is when there are multiple colons in the title, so we're excited to see more of Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance. The announcement trailer above introduces the idea; essentially, this looks to be an action adventure that lets you live out the best moments from the hit animated...
News Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Brings Sci-Fi and Far Cry Together in Impressive PS5 Gameplay
Flight of the Na'vi-gator
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora looks to be a dream game for fans of James Cameron's popular sci-fi movies. In this new gameplay overview video, it appears to be channelling Far Cry, though of course with an Avatar skin, and we've come away pretty optimistic. Playing as a Na'vi who was captured and trained by humans as a...
News Ubisoft's Avatar Will Finally Release on PS5 by March 2024
Skull & Bones due to dock soon, too
It's time for your quarterly reminder that Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Skull and Bones still exist, and that neither has a concrete release date. However, if there is one thing we have learned observing this industry, it's that mounting economic pressure and cor
News Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Gameplay Image Leaks Online
Reveal incoming?
It's been a hot minute since we saw anything from Ubisoft about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The last we heard of it was a delay into fiscal year 2023, meaning it could arrive at late as April 2024. Fans have understandably been clamouring for any fresh glimpse at the elusive game, and they may have finally just got one, albeit not...
News Ubisoft Delays Its Avatar Game, Could Be a 2024 Release
Will miss movie tie-in
Ubisoft has today delayed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to its next fiscal year, meaning it will miss the tie-in with 2022's Avatar: The Way of Water movie. The game was originally slated to launch at the end of this year, but this big pushback means it could now release as late as April 2024 in accordance with the fiscal year...
Rumour Upcoming Need for Speed, Avatar Games Reportedly Release in November
That's when you'll be able to obtain-y 'em
While many major games are being pushed back into 2023, it's starting to look like 2022 will be sent off with a bang. God of War Ragnarok is heavily rumoured to be releasing in November, and we were meant to get confirmation of that today, though it wasn't to be. However, that's not the only title lining up...
News Sony May Have PS5 Marketing Rights for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Pandora's box
We know Sony loves a good marketing deal, as it’s been pretty aggressive on that front for many years now. Franchises like FIFA and Call of Duty may not be exclusive to PlayStation consoles, but the platform holder markets them as if they are. And as part of a corporate strategy webcast, it’s flagged Ubisoft’s upcoming open world...
Video Everything You Need to Know About Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on PS5
Ubisoft goes blue with open world Avatar game
While it seems like we’ve been waiting for new Avatar content — whether it be a video game or a film — for an absolute age, James Cameron finally gave us a peek behind the curtain for his ambitious long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. However, it got us thinking, what’s going on with...
News Why Ubisoft's Avatar Game Couldn't Work on PS4
Na'vi good
If a game is only releasing on PlayStation 5, you'll notice developers talking up how the console's specs allow for more creative freedom. If a title happens to be cross-gen, pre-release marketing is always sure to promise the seven-year-old hardware of the PS4 hasn't held the game back. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora falls into the former...
News Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Announced for PS5, Coming 2022 from Ubisoft
A case of the blues
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will arrive on PlayStation 5 at some point in 2022. That's right, Ubisoft is adapting James Cameron's ridiculously expensive movie into a next-gen video game. At the time of writing, we don't really know what it'll entail — all we have to go on is the above CG trailer. Needless to say, it'll...
News Far Cry 6 Delayed Past April 2021
Avatar, Rainbow Six: Quarantine also pushed back
As part of its second-quarter earnings call earlier today, Ubisoft delayed a number of its upcoming PlayStation 5 titles due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Far Cry 6, originally scheduled to launch in February 2021, will now release between April and September of next year. The same...
News Avatar Sets New Blu-Ray Sales Record, Shifts 2.7 Million Copies
Those lanky blue Avatar creatures have given Batman a bite in the bum, by surpassing the Dark Knight's Blu-Ray sales record and shifting a whopping 2
7 million copies in the first four days on sale (Batman took 18 months to sell 2.5 million copies by comparison). What does this prove? Well firstly, that James Cameron has done it yet again. He's made...
News MAG Stays In The UK Charts' Top Ten, Dante's Inferno Enters At Number Four
Very little change this week in the UK's all-formats chart, with Mass Effect 2 still holding the top-spot
Visceral Games' reimagining of Dante's Inferno entered fairly strongly at number four this week, knocking Sony's MAG to a respectable seventh. By the way, why did Ubisoft moan about Avatar's sales? It's been in the top ten for months now...
News European Playstation Store Updates: 10th December 2009
Special Offers Until December 17: Killzone 2 Flash and Thunder Pack (was £4
79/5.99 now £2.39/2.99) Killzone 2 Map Pack Bundle (was £9.99/12.99 now £7.99/9.99) SOCOM Confrontation (was £19.99/29.99 now £14.99/19.99) The Last Guy (was £6.29/7.99 now £3.99/4.99) Dark Mist (was ...
News Comic-Con 2009: Look, A Screenshot Of James Cameron's Avatar
The hype attached to James Cameron's Avatar is ridiculous
Like, it's already being described as the biggest movie event of the year and we don't even have a clue what it's about. Hopefully someone will tell us something meaningful soon instead of reminding us it's the best thing since sliced bread. You might remember from the horrendously long E3...
