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Assassin's Creed Unity Review – Liberté, Egalité, Négligé
In this case, the devil really is in the detail. *This may be patched to a better state at a later date, but I can only review what I have in front of me. Full disclosure: This was played on Playstation 4 by a copy provided by Ubisoft Patrick Dane, once a would be filmmaker, has somewhat accidentally found himself[...]
The Search For The Female Assassin: An Argument For More Diversity In Gaming
Ubisoft stirred a hornet's nest after proclaiming that the next Assassin's Creed game will not give players the option to create a female protagonist, as doing so would amount to an unacceptable level of work for the development team While many (including, most obviously, Ubisoft themselves) failed to see the issue at hand, a large[...]
Dedicated Discussions – Ubisoft Gets Its Groove On At E3 2014
Feel free to check out our channel and subscribe do you don't miss a thing! This week, we're looking back at what happened at this year's E3 and telling you what we thought about it. Ubisoft started strong and ended stronger this year at E3 but got lost somewhere in the middle Despite road bumps, they were[...]
Shop Front Sales – EA And Ubisoft Highlights At E3
By Phil Harris Nestled amongst the three console press conferences, Ubisoft and EA, take a chance to show their wares and its always worth picking out some of the highlights from E3. Every year EA Sports wheels out the latest version of all their franchises with enough hyperbole to fill twelve baskets I'm a fan of sports[...]
First Person Boredom – Sick Of Multiplayer Shooters?
They see Activision announce another record breaking quarter, in no small part to their golden first person goose.  Publishers like 2K, EA, and UbiSoft all salivate like Pavlov's dog waiting to get their hands on that sweet, sweet Call of Duty money.   They see the gobs of money Activision make and decide that Mass Effect needs a multiplayer shooter included, that Assassin's[...]
Will The Assasin's Creed, Watch Dogs And Far Cry Films Build A Marvel-Style Universe?
And I think we can now add Ubisoft Motion Pictures to the list of storytellers looking to weave an interplay between their tales, much as Marvel have been doing. In the following interview from E3, Ubisoft's Ash Ismail promises tie-ups between the Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed games Talk turns towards that topic at 4:02, and I've transcribed[...]
Alex Ross' Cover For Watch_Dogs
Watch_Dogs is a new supervillain game set in Chicago from Ubisoft, Chicago resident Alex Ross designed the cover He told Forbes; I went downtown to a photographic area that would position both the Sears Tower as well as the elevated train track, which was part of the team's concept that they wanted to show in the[...]
Ghost Recon Movie Also In The Works At Ubisoft
I just never assumed it would be Ubisoft to take the leap. While Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell could be big draws for the company,* I think it may be tougher to adapt some of their other franchises to the screen It won't, of course, stop them trying. The head of Ubisoft Motion Pictures, Jean-Julien Baronnet, has told[...]