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News Tekken Producer Talks About How For Honor Compares to Fighting Games
Fight the good fight
Ubisoft's managed to persuade Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada to sit down with For Honor director Jason Vandenberghe and talk about how the latter compares to more traditional fighting games. The result is a pretty interesting conversation, with Harada detailing his thoughts on For Honor's combat system. Obviously, when it...
News Ghost Recon: Wildlands Open Beta Goes Live Next Week on PS4
Grab your guns
Following on from the success of For Honor's open beta right before it launched earlier this week, Ubisoft is giving Ghost Recon: Wildlands the same treatment, announcing that an open beta will take place next week. Naturally, you won't need a code or an invitation - all you'll have to do is get it downloaded from the PlayStation...
News Which City Will Watch Dogs 3 Be Set In?
New tease points to outside America
A new ending has been patched into Watch Dogs 2 which teases the location of the next game in the series. Ubisoft dropped a meaty 10GB patch for the open world title earlier this week, adding new clothing, bug fixes, and the aforementioned concluding cut-scene. There are spoilers in this article, so if you don't...
News For Honor's Single Player Campaign Lasts Around 6 Hours
Sliced and diced
Out today on PlayStation 4, For Honor promises a suite of medieval multiplayer modes, but despite its clear focus on competitive play, we're more often asked about its single player campaign. While we don't have a review for you lot yet, we can at least tell you that said campaign lasts around 5-6 hours on normal difficulty. The...
News Star Trek: Bridge Crew Lives Long and Prospers from 30th May
Set phasers to fun
Licensed PlayStation VR co-op title Star Trek: Bridge Crew will Spok by a little later than expected, as publisher Ubisoft has announced that the game has been delayed until 30th May. With the bad news out of the way, the company has also revealed that you and up to three friends will be able to commandeer the U.S.S. Enterprise,...
News Ubisoft to Release Fewer Games as Focus Shifts to Long-Term Support
Publisher apparently 'happy' with Watch Dogs 2
Ubisoft has admitted that Watch Dogs 2 didn't get off to the best start in life, but proving yet again that a (watch) dog is for life and not just for Christmas, the title's fortunes have improved of late thanks to positive word of mouth. The hack happy outing is now trending better than Assassin's...
News South Park: The Fractured But Whole Kills Kenny Later Than Anticipated
Trey-king their time
It's no surprise given how little media the release has received, but South Park: The Fractured But Whole has been delayed yet again. The title was originally due during publisher Ubisoft's current fiscal year (which is scheduled to end 31st March, 2017), but in a press release for its latest earnings report the company has...
News Grab Your Weapons, For Honor's Open Beta Is Live on PS4
See you on the battlefield
For Honor's open beta weekend is now live on PlayStation 4, and lasts until Sunday night. The beta's been available to pre-load since earlier this week, but if you didn't get a chance to start the download, it's worth noting that it weighs in at around 20GB. As we've mentioned before, Ubisoft isn't sending out early...
News You Can Pre-Load the For Honor Open Beta on PS4 Right Now
Ready for the weekend
If you're planning on tackling the For Honor open beta over the coming weekend, then you may want to make sure that it's downloaded, installed, and ready to go on your PlayStation 4. The beta runs from the 9th February until the 12th, and it's available to pre-load on the PlayStation Store right now. The download weighs in at...
News Rainbow Six Siege Devs Aiming for at Least 50 Playable Characters
Ubisoft are happy with the amount of game modes, however
With Rainbow Six: Siege into its second year of content -- and with player numbers still rising and its next content pack Operation Velvet Shell releasing tomorrow -- Ubisoft Montreal must be happy with the game's popularity. In an interview with PC Gamer, however, brand director Alexand
News Don't Expect Our For Honor PS4 Review Until After Launch
Axe us about the game at a later date
Ubisoft has indicated to the media that For Honor review code will not be unlocked until the game's publicly released on 14th February. The reason for this, according to the publisher, is because of the hack-'n'-slasher's open beta, which will tie up the title's servers from 9th February through until 12th...
Rumour GameStop Lists Far Cry 5 as a 2017 Release
Shady
Rumours originating from GameStop are always a little shady so take this one with a grain of salt, but a listing for a Far Cry 5 has appeared on the retailer's website. The post comes with a release date of 26th November, which puts the title's launch on a Sunday, another nail in the coffin of this rumour. Despite the lack of plausibility,...
News For Honor PS4 Open Beta Draws Its Sword Next Weekend
For pre-release glory
Just before release, For Honor will be inviting anyone and everyone to get in on its open beta, which kicks off on the 9th February. Ending on the 12th February - just two days before the finished game launches - the beta should help the undecided choose whether or not to sink their blades into Ubisoft's latest. You'll be able...
Hands On Slashing Samurai and Killing Knights in For Honor
Does Ubisoft's hack-'n-slasher earn its place in Valhalla?
It's hard to believe that, for a company that's been around for more than 30 years, Ubisoft doesn't have a huge catalogue of hack-'n-slash games. For those complaining about the French publisher's perceived lack of varied output, For Honor should represent a drastic change from its usual...
News Grab Your Friends and Go to the Wildlands with Ghost Recon Beta
Oscar mike
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands will be securing a PlayStation 4 beta next month, and you're invited. Pre-load will open on 1st February, with the test itself set to run from 3rd February through 6th February. You'll be able to sign up for access through here, and each successful registrant will have the option to invite three...
News Ghost Recon: Wildlands Resurfaces with 21 Minutes of Single-Player PS4 Gameplay
Getting the job done
Up until this point, we've seen a decent amount of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, but mostly from a co-op perspective. The open world shooter obviously encourages play with other people as you tackle various objectives across a huge map, but what if you want to go solo? Well, Ubisoft's released a 21 minute demo in which...
News Ubisoft Acquires DJ Hero Developer from Activision
FreeStyleGames becomes Ubisoft Leamington
Here's a surprise: Ubisoft has acquired DJ Hero developer FreeStyleGames from Activision. The UK-based team – which most recently made Guitar Hero Live – will be renamed Ubisoft Leamington, and will be headed up by Ubisoft Reflections chief Richard Blenkinsop. Presumably the developer will be integrated...
News Watch Dogs 2 Hacks Together a Free Demo on PS4
And you can download it now
Ubisoft's released a playable demo for Watch Dogs 2 on the PlayStation 4, and it appears to be quite meaty. You can actually sample the whole game - co-op and all - but you'll only be able to play for three hours before it ends. We suppose that with an open world title like Watch Dogs 2, though, this format makes more...
News The Division Suits Up with Sharper Graphics on PS4 Pro
People still play this?
We're going to let you in on a secret here: no one on our team voted for The Division in our Game of the Year ballot. In fact, it feels like Ubisoft's military role-playing release has been… For want of a better word, forgotten. Perhaps by players, but not by the publisher: the game will be updated imminently with...
News For Honor's Single Player Campaign Trailer Readies for War
A tale of swords
Ubisoft's keen to let people know that upcoming medieval mash-'em-up For Honor has got a single player campaign, as evidenced by this latest cinematic trailer. The campaign boasts its own story and characters, and we assume that it'll be a good way to wrap your head around the action before jumping into the multiplayer side of...
News All of For Honor's Future Maps and Modes Will Be Free
New heroes may still cost you, though
There was a kerfuffle earlier this week when it was revealed that For Honor - Ubisoft's medieval slash-'em-up - would require a constant internet connection to play. However, as with most things in this industry, you've got to take the good with the bad; the good in this case being that much of the upcoming...
News For Honor Will Require an Internet Connection on PS4
Live by the sword, die by the sword
There had been murmurs that For Honor, the swashbuckler from Ubisoft, would require an Internet connection in order to run on the PlayStation 4 – and they've since been confirmed. Writing on the game's forum, a community manager explained that the game is an "always online experience" with elements of...
Bark or bite?
This is what you wanted, people – this is what you voted for. No, not Trump or Brexit, but a city run by the Blume Corporation where absolutely everyone is constantly under the gaze of an advanced Big Brother surveillance system. This near future society is a Black Mirror-esque teched-up metropolis where ctOS2.0 connects everyone...
News Assassin's Creed Syndicate Polished Up with PS4 Pro Patch
London's calling
Well, this is a surprise: Assassin's Creed Syndicate has been updated to support 4K resolution on the PlayStation 4 Pro. The game, which launched over a year ago, wasn't one of the titles expected to be updated for Sony's new hardware – but this provides hope that publishers may be willing to dive into their back catalogues and...
News Watch Dogs 2's Seamless Multiplayer Arrives on PS4
Only a week late
Watch Dogs 2 is finally working as intended… Well, maybe. The game's "seamless multiplayer" functionality was enabled on the PlayStation 4 a couple of hours ago – just a week after the open world adventure's original launch. You'll now be able to invite and search for co-op partners, hack into rival players' game worlds, and...
News Ubisoft Hopes Watch Dogs 2 Has a Long Sales Tail
Publisher weighs in on woof launch
Watch Dogs 2 has got off to an atrocious start, selling some 300,000 units less than its predecessor at launch in the UK alone. So bad are the numbers that they've prompted publisher Ubisoft to comment, with the firm wagging its tail in the direction of the release's critical response as evidence that it may yet...
Video Wrapping Up Warm with the Steep Open Beta on PS4
White powder
We genuinely haven't heard a peep from Steep since E3 2016 earlier in the year, but apparently it's still on course for a 2nd December release. And lending credence to that is the open beta, which Ubisoft launched on the PlayStation 4 this week. Given that there's been so little press of this game, we thought that we'd slip our gloves...
Poll What Do You Think of Watch Dogs 2 on PS4?
Top dog or dog turd?
Watch Dogs 2 is out on PlayStation 4, and according to our very own Matt Adcock, it's supposed to be pretty darn good. The sandbox sequel is a lot more colourful than its rather dreary predecessor, with Ubisoft trying extra hard to pump some character into proceedings. But now that we've had our say - review score pending - we...
News Ubisoft to Patch Some Panties onto Watch Dogs 2's Starkers Models
A cover up
Prudence prevails again: Watch Dogs 2's nudists will no longer be going commando. You may have read our earlier story on the player who got banned for sharing a shot of one character's honeypot – well, Ubisoft has now responded, and promised to patch some panties into the game. But is this really the solution? The company claims that...
News Don't Even Think About Getting Saucy with the Share Button in Watch Dogs 2
Sony issues ban for honeypot shot
Once again the immaturity of the games industry (and the world at large, really) has reared its ugly head: a PlayStation Network user has been banned for sharing an image of a lady's genitalia in Watch Dogs 2. That ban has since made headlines around the web, and shadily has been extended from a week to a month –...
Deals Take a Cheap PS4 Watch Dogs Bundle for a Walk
One to wag your tail over
Amazon UK's starting Black Friday a little early this year with a range of PlayStation 4 deals leading into the big event. As of right now, it's selling a 500GB PS4 Slim with Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2 for just £239.99. That represents a big saving compared to its usual price of £285.99. Bargain bin, eh? You ca
News Watch Dogs 2's Multiplayer Is Unlikely to Work on Launch Day
Patch submitted to Sony
Wow, this is something else: Watch Dogs 2's multiplayer is unlikely to work properly on launch day. There have been reports all weekend that the game's seamless encounters and random co-op missions don't function as intended, but we'd waved it all aside as a pre-release blip. However, it turns out that Ubisoft has only just...
Round Up Watch Dogs 2 PS4 Reviews Bark Up the Right Tree
Woof, woof
Watch Dogs 2 has launched a full-scale assault on every gaming website apart from our own, and thus a full-range of scores have been extracted based upon the open world adventure's source code. It's worth nothing that, from what we understand, the multiplayer is completely crunk at the moment, so you may want to turn your attention away...
News A Trailer for a New Ubisoft Game May Have Been Found in Watch Dogs 2
To a Ubisoft tower and beyond
For a game all about hacking, it probably shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that a trailer for what appears to be a new title from Ubisoft has been found in Watch Dogs 2. After breaking into UbiHQ in the game, NeoGAF user FlammableAce was rewarded with the following video: Could this be Ubisoft's own take on...
News Watch Dogs 2 Earns Some New Followers with PS4 Launch Trailer
Like
Watch Dogs 2 has spread its social media influence with a new PlayStation 4 launch trailer. The title, which will worm its way into your console next week, doesn't appear to have as much hype behind it as its hotly anticipated predecessor – but it looks like it's got ten times the personality, at least. Alright, some of the nerdy dialogue is...
Video Spreading Our Wings with Beautiful PlayStation VR Title Eagle Flight
Bird brain
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away.I don't know where my soul is... I don't know where my home is... How many other PlayStation websites are quoting early-noughties Nelly Furtado songs in their Eagle Flight coverage? The answer is zero. (We hope.) Anyway, this Assassin's Creed-themed bird simulator makes a brilliant first impression. It...
Numa Numa nay
Just Dance: the worst part of every E3. Just Dance sometimes feels like the Ubisoft series no one can takes seriously – or even cares about anymore. This year's edition really doesn't add much in terms of gameplay or modes, but it's still solid. Firstly, the tracklist: there's a lot of variation this year, with modern hits like...
News For Honor Spilt-Screen Co-Op Cut Completely, Not Just From Online Play
Cleaved in two
Earlier today, news broke that upcoming medieval brawler For Honor has dropped support for split-screen play, although comments made by producer Stephane Cardin made unclear whether he was referring to online co-op only. Sadly, as it turns out, the worst-case scenario is upon us, in that split-screen is being cut from the game...
News For Honor Cuts Split-Screen Co-Op from Online Play
Lone wolf
Bad news for those of you who were looking forward to jumping online with your sofa buddy in For Honor, as it sounds like Ubisoft Montreal has cut split-screen co-op. In a recent video from the developer, producer Stephane Cardin says "we decided this week to cut the split-screen", but doesn't really give a clear answer as to why this...
Rumour Is This Your First Look at Egyptian Assassin's Creed?
Oh Mummy
Assassin's Creed may be staying in the Animus longer than expected, but a first screenshot purported to be taken from the latest entry has apparently leaked online. It shows a pause menu alongside what appears to be a wireframe pyramid. The list of options shown on the toolbar include crafting, and a tooltip mentions that you can upgrade...
News For Honor's Single Player Campaign Won't Disappoint, Says Developer
Alone on the battlefield
For Honor was originally billed as an out-and-out multiplayer title, with players battling through hordes of lesser foes in order to enter tense duels with other skilled warriors. It wasn't too long, however, until developer Ubisoft Montreal introduced us to the game's single player offering. Boasting a "full story...
News Assassin's Creed May Stay Hidden in 2017, Too
Need for Creed
Ubisoft's in the process of rebooting the Assassin's Creed franchise, and while it's padding the time with a remastered version of Ezio's collection this year, there's no guarantee that it will drop a new entry in 2017. Speaking with IGN, Tommy François admitted that the series – along with Far Cry – may be taking a longer hiatus...
News Michel Ancel Shares More Beyond Good & Evil 2 Artwork
Careful of sharks
Is Beyond Good & Evil 2 drawing closer? Michel Ancel has posted another piece of artwork on his Instagram account, showing what appears to be either Rufus or Francis – the anthropomorphic sharks who appeared in the original game. He captioned the image with the following message: "Ready for the fight. Independence Ubisoft...
News Is Long Awaited Sequel Beyond Good & Evil 2 Back On?
Turn the Pey'j
Beyond Good & Evil 2 seems to have been in the pipeline for an eternity, and now Ubisoft veteran Michel Ancel has hinted that the project may be back on. The Wild Sheep Studio founder – who's also working with Sony on the fascinating PlayStation 4 exclusive WiLD – posted a most interesting picture on Instagram today: concept...
First Impressions Bloodying Our Blades in the For Honor PS4 Alpha
No guts, no glory
For Honor is a medieval melee-based action title that's set in a land totally ruined by a natural disaster - its people left to fight for their survival. This is where three warriors come across one pool of water, and although they could share it, a brawl ensues because of pure greed. These initial three fighters go on to form the...
News Tap Up 30 Minutes of Watch Dogs 2 Gameplay
Hacked off
It's one of the biggest games of the year, but our looks at Watch Dogs 2 have been limited to say the least. Ubisoft, ever the experts at earning column inches for their wares, has hooked up the enthusiast press with tons of new gameplay footage -- and because our invite got lost in the post, we've reproduced Eurogamer.net's coverage for...
News The Division Is Still the Best Selling Game of 2016, Ubisoft Reminds Us
But is anyone still playing it?
We remember the lead up to The Division's launch like it was yesterday. The online shooter had a huge amount of hype behind it, with many claiming that it was fated to be the next big thing. It then released to solid reviews and plenty of sales. For a while, it's safe to say that The Division was a hit. However, it...
News South Park: The Fractured but Whole Clenches Its Cheeks Till 2017
Stinker
It's that time of the year where release dates get chopped and changed, as publishers realise that releasing their wares amid the holiday rush perhaps isn't the best plan. South Park: The Fractured but Whole is the latest casualty, as Ubisoft has pushed the licensed role-playing game out of December and into Q1 2017. "The development team...
News Sharpen Up with Three More For Honor Gameplay Trailers
Adding to the ranks
We hope that you like trailers, because For Honor's got three more of them. Showcasing a trio of new character classes from each faction, the relatively short clips do a good job of explaining what each warrior is about. Above, you can get a look at the Orochi - a Samurai swordmaster who's also keen on using a few ninja...
News Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection Charms PS4 from 15th November
Italy awaits
Ubisoft just couldn't do it. The publisher had said that it wanted to give Assassin's Creed a break, and we'd let the French firm off the hook when it deployed those episodic side-scrolling games. But here we are: the holidays are approaching, and it's managed to pump out Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection just in time. The...
