Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones is a surprisingly good pirate naval battle game
Skull & Bones started out as a relatively mediocre and little-noticed title when Ubisoft showed the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) game...
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick: ‘I’m charged with making hard decisions’
Strauss Zelnick is very efficient with his answers. When I interviewed the CEO of Take-Two Interactive last week at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3),...
How Nintendo approached E3 2018: quality, esports, and immediate gratification
It was time that Nintendo held a big show at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and revealed a lot of new games. But this...
At E3 2018, too many companies ruined their own shots at the spotlight
For decades, a game theory called the “prisoner’s dilemma” has explained why people who work together do better overall than those who scheme against...
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is an RPG so that history can be your playground
I spent the Sunday before the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo locked away in a cool, climate-controlled room packed with PCs running Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey....
Asssassin’s Creed: Odyssey won’t let you romance Socrates, so what’s the point?
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the culmination of Ubisoft’s efforts to turn its historical playground adventures into full role-playing experiences. The publisher started that effort...
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey lets you choose a male or female hero
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed is taking us to ancient Greece this fall on both land and sea, as the forces of order and chaos will...
For Honor: Marching Fire adds China to the fight on October 16
Ancient China is journeying to the West in the latest DLC for Ubisoft’s melee fighter For Honor. The developer showed off For Honor: Marching Fire along...
Star Fox is a Nintendo Switch exclusive for Starlink, launches October 16
Ubisoft and Nintendo are collaborating again. Star Fox will be in Ubisoft’s Starlink: Battle for Atlas, which is launching for PlayStation 4, Xbox One,...
Ubisoft’s Transference depicts a creepy family in VR
Ubisoft is getting near to shipping its virtual reality game, called Transference. The game invites you to “enter the home of a mind” in the fall of...