Watch Dogs has been one of the more contentious Ubisoft franchises ever since its first trailer debuted at E3 seven years ago. Controversies aside, the first game did well enough to garner a sequel, which received generally positive reviews across the board. Now, more than two years after Watch Dogs 2 arrived, Ubisoft is apparently …
When Epic Games announced last month that it would be launching its own digital game storefront to compete with Steam, it caused quite a stir. Steam has spent over a decade and a half establishing itself as the premiere platform for buying PC games online, but if any company was going to be able to …
After taking a year off of the Assassin’s Creed franchise and then righting the ship with Assassin’s Creed Origins, publisher Ubisoft has returned a year later with another entry that shares a great deal in common with Origins, but pushes the series even further away from what it was when it debuted in 2007. Assassin’s …
When Ubisoft announced that it would be returning to the Assassin’s Creed franchise just a year after Origins came out, I was initially skeptical. Origins succeeded in part because Ubisoft took the time to truly evolve the gameplay for the first time in a decade, but Odyssey, its follow-up, appeared to be little more than …
After taking a break from the main Assassin’s Creed series in 2016 in order to regroup, Ubisoft came roaring back in 2017 with Assassin’s Creed Origins. The break served the development team well, as Origins was exactly the reboot the franchise needed. Ubisoft will follow Origins up with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey later this year, but rather …
Ubisoft’s biggest surprise might have been spoiled long before its E3 press conference began (thanks to a keychain, no less), but that didn’t stop the studio from putting on one of the most entertaining events so far. Ubisoft’s event was just about evenly split between new game announcements and updates on games that were revealed …
The longest day of E3 press conference rolls on this afternoon as Ubisoft takes the stage to show off all of the games it has coming later this year and into 2019. Many of the press conferences so far, especially Microsoft and Bethesda, have focused heavily on next year’s games, so we’re hoping to see …
Following a lackluster response to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate in 2015, publisher Ubisoft announced that it would take a year off of the core series for the first time in a decade to regroup. It seems to have been the right decision, as Assassin’s Creed Origins was well-received when it hit PS4, Xbox One and PC …
Reinvention doesn’t always have to be dramatic. Whether it’s a long-running movie series, the seventh season of a TV show or the fifth entry in a popular video game franchise, subtle changes can be made to feel radical. In Far Cry 5, Ubisoft managed to reinvent its massively popular open world first-person shooter without losing much, …
After turning back the clock and exploring ancient Egypt in Assassin’s Creed Origins last year, it appears that Ubisoft will keep the series a millennium or two in the past with its next entry. ComicBook.com reports that Assassin’s Creed will travel to ancient Greece when the series returns from a two-year hiatus next fall. Liam Robertson …
