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Wednesday, Nov 4
So How Many Boss Fights Will Prince of Persia Have?
P.S. No, Mechner didn't say anything about film sequels. However, he did say Ubisoft has something big planned to announce in conjunction with the film's marketing as the release date draws nearer. Dare we hope for a video game sequel?
Friday, Oct 2
Heroes Over Europe Review: A Flying Shame
Heroes Above Europe was developed by Transmission Games and published by Ubisoft for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on Sept. 15 and for Windows PC on Sept. 22. Retails for $49.99 USD and $39.99 USD for the PC version. Played entire single-player campaign mode on medium difficulty. Tested hard dif...
Monday, Sep 28
Splinter Cell Conviction Impressions: More Panther, Less Grandma
What you shouldn't do when trying out a level of Splinter Cell Conviction is to make Sam Fisher run through a warehouse, shooting wildly. That's not what Max Beland, creative director of the game at Ubisoft, wants, because it doesn't work when the cheats are turned off.
Tokyo Game Show Slump Casts Shadow Across Industry
Western developers Microsoft and Ubisoft both had large booths at the show this year, though Electronic Arts wasn't in the show this time around. Other big booths included those for Sony Computer Entertainment, portable game developer Level 5 and Japanese developers Square Enix, Kona...
Saturday, Sep 26
Booth Check: Ubisoft
Ubisoft's booth seemed fairly popular today among the masses, packing in gamers with the allure of Avatar, Red Steel 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction, to name just a few.
Wednesday, Sep 23
Microsoft Announce Natal Partners: Everyone Plus Kojima
Microsoft just sent out a self-congratulatory press release about Project Natal, highlighting the publishers and developers currently toiling away on games for the upcoming motion control system. Bethesda Capcom Electronic Arts Konami MTV Games Sega Square Enix THQ Ubisoft
Tuesday, Sep 15
Nintendo Updates Holiday Lineup, Reveals New Games
Wii Nintendo Wii Fit Plus - Oct. 4 New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Holiday Gameloft Ghost Mansion Party - Q3 The Oregon Trail - Q4 Nintendo/TPC Pokémon Rumble - Q4 React Games Archon: Classic - Q1 Nintendo DS/Nintendo DSi PopCap Games, Inc. Bookworm - Dec. 1 Nintendo DSiWare Gameloft Uno - Q4
The Lessons Learned — Or Resisted — While Making Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed II ships in November for the the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Play it as a game. Play it as an experience. Just don't expect there to be a reward for everything you find within it. And know that while you're playing it, Desilets might be in his room, smiling, ready for your respo...
Friday, Dec 19
Hope You Didn't Buy Prince of Persia Last Week [Ubisoft]
We'd think that a drop that fast and of that much doesn't bode well for Prince of Persia's sales, but we just work here. And Prince of Persia's not the only game being slashed right before the holidays. Ubisoft's EndWar and Far Cry 2 — the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions — have also been reduc...
Ubisoft Pits Brains Against Bullets In CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars [Game Announce]
Dynamic First-Person Shooter Coming to Xbox LIVE® Arcade for Xbox 360® and PlayStation®Network in Early 2009 CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars will be available on Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Network and is rated "T” for Teen.
Ubisoft Brings Broken Sword: Shadow Of The Templars To The Wii [Game Announce]
SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 18, 2008 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced a publishing agreement to release the special edition of Broken Sword – Shadow of the Templars on Wii(TM) and Nintendo DS(TM) systems.
Monday, Dec 8
Frankenreview: Prince of Persia
n every console generation there are one or two games that, regardless of any flaws, hold tight in my memory even years later. I can still picture scenes from Chrono Trigger on the Super Nintendo System as if I just played it the other day. Despite a flurry of great games released in the past yea...
Monday, Nov 17
Rayman Raving Rabbids Join Forces With Capri Sun To Bravely Co-Market [Only Ubisoft]
C) 2008 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Rayman, Rayman Raving Rabbids, the character of Rayman, Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. Wii and the Wii logo are trademarks of Nintendo. (C) 2006 Nintendo.
Thursday, Nov 13
EA, Take-Two, Nintendo (And Ubisoft!) Cautious About Christmas Spending [Business]
Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot says: Take-Two's Strauss Zelnick: I'm concerned that it's going to be a pretty rough holiday season. Everyone's going to be shopping less. First you are going to see less foot traffic and then less inventory on the shelves.
Wednesday, Jul 2
TransGaming Brings Ubisoft To The Mac
Ubisoft is extremely excited about the partnership with TransGaming to bring our titles to the Mac," said Jay Cohen, senior vice president of publishing at Ubisoft. "This is the perfect opportunity to reach the growing Mac community so they can enjoy games such as CSI: Hard Evidence and o...
Saturday, May 24
Kotaku Originals: Whole Lotta Whorelore [Kotaku Originals]
Nintendo Not Attending Leipzig This Year Ubisoft Profits Surge On Rainbow Six, Rayman Europe Gets Three New DS Colours Xbox Live "Gay" Crackdown MIGHT Be Getting A Little Out Of Hand Wii Fit Shipments Late? Not Exactly WiiWare Launches In Europe/Australia, Gets Demos With A Catch
Tuesday, Feb 12
Ubisoft Pwns Bratz Producers For $13 Million [Legal Battles]
In 2002, Ubisoft entered into a license with MGA to publish video games based on the Bratz™ dolls. Due to the increasing popularity of the dolls, MGA sought to force a renegotiation of the license in 2003 by terminating the license without cause and on pretextual grounds. When Ubisoft refus...
Thursday, Nov 1
Assassin's Creed Short Film Winner
Greg Reid claims his grand prize of $10,000, an Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, an Xbox 360 version of Assassin's Creed and inclusion of his short film inside the Limited Edition version of the
Tuesday, Oct 16
Opinion: Assassin's Creed Score Is BAFTAstic [Soundtracks]
© 2007 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft, Ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. "PlayStation", "PLAYSTATION", and "PS" Family logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entert...
Monday, Sep 17
Industry News: Ubisoft Opens Second Studio In China
Ubisoft was the first major developer to establish itself in China, opening a development studio in Shanghai in 1996. Ubisoft's Shanghai studio, managed by Corinne Leroy, has developed internationally renowned games including Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow® for the Xb...
Friday, Aug 17
Developing GRAW2 For The PS3
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 hit the 360 back in March to strong praise, and now five months later it's set to hit the PlayStation 3 next week, complete with exclusive maps and weapons. We got a chance to chat with Olivier Didelot from Ubisoft Paris, the Lead AI Engineer on
Friday, Dec 8
Ubi Confirms GRAW 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter received critical acclaim and quickly became one of the best-selling games on Xbox 360 and one of the most played games on the Xbox Live® online gaming service. Recently, the prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) aw...
Monday, Apr 17
Opinion: Misleading Ubisoft Ad
The problem is, the GameSpy review disagrees. In fact the review landed Essentials a paltry two out of five stars. But what the preview does say is: Although Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Essentials doesn't reinvent the wheel in any way, it's undoubtedly one of the best games we've played on th...
