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Revolution & Aristocracy Focal Points of New Assassin’s Creed Unity Trailer
Ubisoft has recently put together a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming free-running game, Assassin’s Creed Unity. The trailer portrays several assassinations in 18th-century Paris, and also shows the army of the French monarchy. The video is accompanied by narration, which probably is of the main character Arno. He describes his motives and intentions behind joining the cause of the infamous French Revolution. In the game you will be playing as Arno in Unity, leading rebels in their fight against the French elite and their struggle to establish a republic. “For centuries my countrymen have suffered under the ignorant and decadent aristocracy,” the man says. “So I will wage my silent war in the shadows; the time has come for revolution, for those to unite and mak...
The Crew to get free content post launch
Ubisoft said that it’s open-world racing game The Crew will get free content updates after its launched. “One of the things that I really want to do is to keep providing people with content after launch,” The Crew Creative Director Julian Gerighty said in a video interview posted to Ubisoft’s YouTube channel. “Free Content just to keep people engaged in the game. I really see this as your one stop shop for action driving.” Ubisoft has previously referred to The Crew as the “World of Warcraft of driving games,” and massively multiplayer online games of this type get a lot of free content in addition to paid post-launch content. The Crew lets you drive coast-to-coast across America, supposedly with no loading screens. You’ll be able to drive by familiar locations like Mount Rushm...
Assassin’s Creed Pirates Free This Week on iOS
Only those who have played Assassin’s Creed Black Flag will know exactly what Assassin’s Creed Pirates entails. And it just so happens that this week Ubisoft has made this mobile gaming app free for iOS. The game is all about naval warfare, which is more to do with strategy and stuff like that rather than running around hoping from island to island killing animals to upgrade your armor. You’ll be doing other stuff like upgrading your ship, recruiting new crew members, and fighting enemy ships. In other related news, Ubisoft has also released their fourth content update for the game. Ubisoft has periodically released these free updates since the game’s launch. This particular add on opens new areas–La Isla de la Juventud, in which you must take down a fortress ...
Addtional Content Now Available For Watch Dogs
Yesterday Ubisoft announced that single player content for the open world action-adventure game Watch Dogs will be available tomorrow on all platforms. Tomorrow’s release includes three single player missions, unlockable weapons, perks and bonuses to help Aiden on his quest for revenge. The three missions, detailed below, give players tasks to complete, but also bonuses, boosts, perks, weapons and outfits to earn and unlock along the way. The Palace Single Player Mission: A police raid is planned on the luxury palace of an Internet mogul. His databanks have intimate details on thousands of people including Dedsec and Aiden Pearce. Break inside, wipe his hard drive and escape before the raid begins. Then silence the Internet mogul. Signature Shot Single Player Mission: A biometrics weapon h...
5 Awesome facts about Assassin’s Creed Unity
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series releases October 2014, this time stabbing its way through the French Revolution. Assassin’s Creed: Unity has its action in and around Paris, France during the turbulent span of years between 1789 and 1794. With Arno, an entirely new breed of Assassin, and take down your prey with a range of new weapons such as the Phantom Blade, a hidden blade with crossbow capabilities. and for the first time cooperative play in story mode. We check out the 5 Awesome facts about Assassin’s Creed Unity, Dive on and immerse yourself 🙂 5. Downwards Parkouring Arno is just as agile as his Assassin predecessors from the previous games, but Ubi Montreal added a new wrinkle to the series’ trademark parkour scrambling in the form of a mechanic called “controlled descents.” ...
The Crew beta sign-ups now live
Ubisoft has opened The Crew beta sign-ups for the PC version of the game. The Crew’s PC beta will begin on July 23. Those interested in participating can register here and will be need a Uplay account. Ubisoft has announced a Crew release date of November 11 on PC, Xbox One and PS4. The Crew is a massively multiplayer online game featuring an open world that spans the entire United States of America, albeit in scaled-down form. It features a persistent online world where players can form crews with friends to compete in races and events. Players can customise their cars to participate in multiplayer street races, skill challenges, and cross-country endurance tests. The map boasts more than 1,000 landmarks that takes about an hour and a half to drive from coast-to-coast in the game&#...
Ubisoft® and Electronic Sports World Cup Reveal The First Global Just Dance® Competition
Ubisoft® and the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) today announced their partnership to turn Just Dance into an official ESWC discipline, making it the first casual video game to enter the ESWC line up. The Electronic Sports World Cup is a worldwide competition that starts locally with national qualifying rounds and culminates in a World Final designed as a live show. Just Dance is the top selling dance game globally and Just Dance 2015, the latest in the franchise, was announced at E3 2014 along with Just Dance Now, the all-new mobile game that allows players to play Just Dance tracks with their smartphones and any Internet-connected screen. “For the 11th edition of the ESWC, we are very proud to widen the definition of eSport with Ubisoft. Competitive gaming has to welcome all kind of p...
Ubisoft on Half LIfe 3– “No Idea When it Will Be Out”
Let us take a moment to commend those Half Life 3 supporters that have literally had to wait a lifetime and probably more at this rate. They just don’t seem to want to give up at all–even though chances are that the game may not even come out in their lifetime. Some supporters took to the official Watch Dogs Facebook page asking when Half Life 3 will be out….no seriously, they did! It does sound pretty funny but you can feel for those guys who want nothing more than a few answers. I mean it has been quite a while, and now Ubisoft is part-taking in the fun by simply replying “we have no idea when Half Life 3 will be out. If you find out, let us know.” Really loved how they’ve taken everything in their stride! What do you’ll think is the future to this game, wil...
Ubisoft to make more Open-World Games because they feel “gamers want more freedom”
In a recent interview, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told why the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry publisher is working on more open-world games. Guillemot says that games like Watch Dogs, The Crew, Far Cry 4 or The Division do appeal to gamers much more allow a certain level of freedom among players because they allow players a more free-form experience instead of a linear and directed one. “We think that gamers want more freedom,” Guillemot said. “They also want games that they can play for quite a while, because there are less games now. The open-world genre gives us the possibility to offer different gamers different types of experiences. We think they are better adapted to the diversity of gamers that are in the market at the moment.” Guillemot went on to say t...
Assassin’s Creed Unity with 4 women would have been awesome says former ASC game designer
Patrice Desilets, former Assassin’s Creed game designer quite firmly believes that Ubisoft should have invested the time and effort to give players the choice to play as a woman in Assassin’s Creed Unity, an aspect that Ubisoft opted out of due to “the reality of production.” At E3 this week, Unity creative director Alex Amancio told why the cooperative multiplayer game features four versions of protagonist Arno and why the developer excluded the option to play as a female assassin. “It’s double the animations, it’s double the voices, all that stuff and double the visual assets,” Amancio said. “Especially because we have customizable assassins. It was really a lot of extra production work.” Desilets in an interview told Polygon th...
You can ride Elephants in Far Cry 4
Much like its predecessors, Far Cry 4 will allow you to do your killing in the same quiet and stealthy fashion. But we can see many gamers opting out of that when you can ride an elephant. It really doesn’t get much cooler than that! You can pretty much smash through gates and take aim at helpless enemies with your shotgun. The video below from PlayStation Access will show you two very different approaches to getting through a certain section of the upcoming open-world FPS. Crossbows are like the bare minimum you need to do to get through, but getting all king-of-the-jungle on rather shocked enemies…that pretty fun too!
Ubisoft and Nvidia team up on Assassin’s Creed Unity, Far Cry 4, The Crew and Tom Clancy’s The Division
Ubisoft and NVIDIA today announced the next chapter in their strategic partnership bringing amazing PC gaming experiences to life in Ubisoft’s highly anticipated upcoming titles including Assassin’s Creed Unity, Far Cry 4, The Crew and Tom Clancy’s The Division. NVIDIA’s GameWorks Team is working closely with Ubisoft’s development studios to incorporate cutting edge graphics technology and gaming innovations to create game worlds that deliver unprecedented realism and immersion. NVIDIA’s GameWorks technology includes TXAA antialiasing, which provides Hollywood-levels of smooth animation, soft shadows, HBAO+ (horizon-based ambient occlusion), advanced DX11 tessellation, and NVIDIA PhysX technology. “Working with NVIDIA has enabled us to bring an enhanced gameplay experience to...