In defense of Assassin’s Creed III ahead of its remaster
An Assassin’s Creed III remaster is coming with Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. This move has many fans raising their eyebrows. Despite selling over 7 million...
The DeanBeat: The blockchain hype train comes to gaming
Blockchain this and that. You hear it all the time now. I get pitched a few times per week, or sometimes per day, on...
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...
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...
Rainbow Six: Siege’s Grim Sky launches new operators for Year 3 Pass owners
Ubisoft is performing maintenance on its popular military shooter Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege today in preparation of the launch of its next season...
How Ubisoft came up with its Starlink: Battle for Atlas toy-game hybrid
Ubisoft is really late to the party for the “toys-to-life,” market with Starlink: Battle for Atlas. And that could be a good thing. Activision...
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey — how you’ll battle mythical creatures and fight massive battles on land and sea
I played a long preview of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, and it gave me a good feel for what the massive new installment in the...
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey hands-on preview — Taking on the Writhing Dread
In Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, ancient Greece is at war. Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Spartans and Athenians were at each other’s throats. That means that...
The Crew 2: Gator Rush update hands-on — Zipping through the bayou in a hovercraft
Ubisoft launched The Crew 2 open-world driving game in June, and now it’s supporting it with a post-release update called Gator Rush. I took Gator Rush for...