For Honor: How Ubisoft created a new brand and genre
Shoot-em-ups are a popular genre in video games. But Ubisoft wanted to make a “chop-em-up” melee game, and it had to think hard about...
Assassin’s Creed: Origins review — side quests waylay a search for justice
Assassin’s Creed: Origins is a stunning tour of ancient Egypt. As Bayek of Siwa, a seeker of justice and protector of the people, you’ll...
Assassin’s Creed Origins game director: The vast open world of Egypt is a stage for franchise rebirth
Ubisoft had one last big preview session for Assassin’s Creed Origins in San Francisco, where it showed off a couple of hours of new content...
Transference is VR’s ‘Being John Malkovich’ from Ubisoft
Ubisoft is getting weird with its virtual reality games, but what else do you expect from a game studio called The Funhouse? Ubisoft Montreal’s...
The accelerating inspiration cycle of science fiction, video games, and real-world technology
The science fiction in games and other entertainment used to be very different from real-life technology. Sci-fi creators made time machines and flying cars. But...
Ubisoft researcher scouted Watch Dogs 2 by hanging out with hacktivists in SF and DefCon
Thomas Geffroyd spent about 20 years preparing to be the hacker advisor inside Ubisoft for the Watch Dogs 2 game. Well, not really. But...
Why Watch Dogs 2 creators chose to focus on San Francisco’s hacktivism
When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The...
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 game director tells us how to take on the surveillance state
Watch Dogs 2 is an open world game about hacktivists taking on the smart city of San Francisco. Its anti-hero is Marcus Holloway, a...
Watch Dogs 2’s hackivists go to war with its hacker-proof city
The original Watch Dogs is a revenge tale and a warning about the threats that hackers pose to smart cities. Watch Dogs 2 offers...
Watch Dogs 2’s San Francisco brings out the playful side of the hacking series
That seems to be the motto for Marcus Holloway, the young hero from the upcoming open-world action game Watch Dogs 2 (coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on November 15). Unlike his revenge-seeking predecessor from the first game, Holloway looks like he’s having the time of his life.