How Ubisoft built player choice into Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
The Assassins faction of Assassin’s Creed are all about freedom and free will. But the characters in Ubisoft’s long-running game series haven’t always offered...
Catherine Seys interview: Ubisoft fosters creativity by tapping into startups
Ubisoft is a big French video game company with 15,000 employees and hits like Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. But the...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode is both accessible and fun
It’s confession time: I’m terrible at Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But I’m better at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode....
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey hands-on — The first hours of a massive island-hopping game
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey debuts on October 5 on the PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. I had a chance to play the first four hours...
Shadow of the Tomb Raider review — Lara Croft goes from prey to predator
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the third part of Lara Croft’s coming of age trilogy as an adventurer. And while she is more...
Starlink: Battle for Atlas hands-on — Going in hot with Nintendo’s Starfox character on the Switch
Ubisoft showed off its new entry in the “toys-to-life” market, Starlink: Battle for Atlas. I played it at a recent preview event on the Nintendo Switch...
How Shadow of the Tomb Raider guides players without the white-paint trail
I’ve never designed a 3D world for a video game, but I can imagine that it is frustrating. A company like Tomb Raider developer...
The D20 Beat: The Bard’s Tale Remastered is a bloody trip down memory lane
I took my next steps with caution, wishing I could duck into the shadows. A group of slavering dogs ambushed me, and after a...
CEO Robin Jung tells why Pearl Abyss bought Eve Online maker
Pearl Abyss, the maker of Black Desert Online, has agreed to buy Eve Online maker CCP for $425 million. The move is a big...
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson interview — Why CCP thinks Iceland and South Korea are a good mix
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has worked at Eve Online maker CCP Games, Iceland’s biggest game studio, for 18 years, and he has been CEO since 2004. Today,...