After the absolute fiasco of The Crew being flat out killed stone dead when the servers were turned off, Ubisoft promised it was listening to its players. Specifically, that meant working on an offline mode for The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest. Aside from a confirmation of the plans, all has been quiet on … Read more
What do platypuses, flared trousers, and cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry all have in common? They are either conceptually confusing or outright utterly insane. Much like Ubisoft’s relentless pursuit of a battle royale FPS. Video game publishers of all stripes scrambled response to the battle royale shooter craze that began in 2017 with PUBG, and culminated with … Read more
Ubisoft just shared its Chroma tool with the public to improve the accessibility of video games. Chroma is a colorblind simulation tool that allows developers to optimize games for color blindness. The open-source tool applies a filter over the game screen so developers can check how content will appear to people with different types of … Read more
Ubisoft has , the company’s in-house colorblind assistance tool. It’s via GitHub and is described as a “one-stop solution for detecting color blindness-related issues in games.” Here’s how it works. It throws a filter over the game screen that simulates various types of color blindness. This allows testers to flag accessibility issues in real time. … Read more
Ubisoft is out making fans upset once more with its last response to the ongoing lawsuit over the shutdown of The Crew. Initially spotted by Polygon, page 12 of the 2024 Ubisoft lawsuit response reads: “The gravamen of Plaintiffs’ Complaint (ECF No. 1) is that Ubisoft, Inc. allegedly misled purchasers of its video game The … Read more
Even after the success of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, it looks like Ubisoft is going through with its plans for reorganization. The company announced today in a press release that it is “accelerating its transformation” by forming a dedicated subsidiary company that will be focused on the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six franchises. This … Read more
Ubisoft’s biggest games — Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six — will be split off into a separate entity with a €1.16 billion ($1.3 billion) investment from Chinese tech giant Tencent, the company announced on Thursday. The new subsidiary will include every Ubisoft team currently working on those three franchises in Montréal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, … Read more
Ubisoft has announced the establishment of a dedicated subsidiary based on its Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six brands, spearheaded by an investment of €1.16 billion from Chinese conglomerate Tencent, who will retain a 25 percent minority stake in the subsidiary. The new subsidiary will focus on “building game ecosystems designed to become truly evergreen … Read more
Assassin’s Creed Shadows has seen over 3 million players since launch, Ubisoft has announced. The player milestone comes seven days after Shadows launched on May 20, and is up from the 2 million reported on day two, surpassing the launches of both Origins and Odyssey. Other stats reported by Ubisoft today were already revealed by … Read more
Elon Musk has a new adversary—the latest Assassin’s Creed game and its developer, Ubisoft. Assassin’s Creed Shadows has faced criticism from those who say including a Black samurai and a female ninja as the game’s main protagonists promotes a “woke” agenda. On Tuesday, Musk added his two cents on X. Shadows is a “terrible game” … Read more