Categories Posted inin Business At 12% of total revenue, digital games are no longer an afterthought at Ubisoft (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 10, 2013 12 min Chris Early, the head of digital publishing at the French game giant, says digital games grew 86 percent last year for the company. Continue Reading 12 min
Categories Posted inin Business False rumors, ugly cities, and sharks: How meticulous research shaped Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes August 21, 2013 5 min Lead writer Darby McDevitt guides us through some of the challenges of recreating The West Indies in the newest installment of Assassin's Creed. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ubisoft CEO: 'We need to release open worlds on a regular basis' Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 18, 2013 2 min The publisher has built itself around multistudio collaboration so it can release open-world games on a regular basis. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ubisoft reveals the booty in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Limited Edition Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 16, 2013 1 min The next Assassin's Creed game will have a $130 collector's edition with a statue, a flag, and more. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2013: The year of the open world Posted byby GamesBeat June 18, 2013 7 min This year's E3 featured a multitude of titles with nonlinear gameplay in sprawling environments. Here are pretty much all of them. Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business After a big win, Sony executive tries hard not to do a victory lap at E3 (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 12, 2013 4 min Sony's Scott Rohde says the PlayStation 4 policies are fair to consumers. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot sees big opportunity in the console transition (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 11, 2013 10 min Ubisoft CEO believes good properties -- the games -- are the key to lengevity in the game business. Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Assassination: Pirate-style in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Posted byby GamesBeat June 10, 2013 3 min Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag still assigns you targets for deletion, but its seamless, open world and pirate setting make for assassination missions unlike any in the franchise's history. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Pirating: Assassin-style in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Posted byby GamesBeat June 10, 2013 4 min Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag fully commits to its golden-age-of-pirates setting, and that makes it a very different Creed. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Assassin’s Creed IV features ship combat and a new pirate character to go with it (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 10, 2013 8 min The lead writer for Assassin's Creed IV tells us about the decisions behind the ship combat and new pirate character. Continue Reading 8 min